Thief on USB? - TTLG Forums

Albert on 4/5/2010 at 11:46

Just thought of this.

Is it possible to install Thief 2, with all the patches and, optionally, the mods, along with Darkloader and a few good FMs- onto a USB stick to take around?

Just wondering...

casalor on 4/5/2010 at 12:01

Only thing I can think of is the drive mappings in one of the cfg files (darkinst?). Apart from that you might have just hit on a winner!

Yandros on 4/5/2010 at 16:08

This has been discussed before, I'm just too lazy to go search for it.

Renault on 4/5/2010 at 18:44

One way to find out - someone should just try it. I know this has been done with System Shock.

With the size of USB sticks these days, you could probably get the program files and every FM made on the same stick. I just bought a 32 gig one a few weeks ago, plenty of room.

Albert on 4/5/2010 at 20:06

Quote Posted by Brethren

With the size of USB sticks these days, you could probably get the program files and every FM made on the same stick. I just bought a 32 gig one a few weeks ago, plenty of room.

OMIGOD... Damn, I've only got 4 gigs max.

Albert on 4/5/2010 at 20:14

Quote Posted by casalor

Only thing I can think of is the drive mappings in one of the cfg files (darkinst?).

So what? I just put something like this?

Code:

install_path C:\Thief2
language english
resname_base .\res
load_path C:\Thief2+f:\thief2
script_module_path C:\Thief2+f:\thief2
movie_path .\movies

Er, dunno how this would work. Replace "C:\" directories with ".\" somehow. I attempted it, but only movies really works this way. ~~And that doesn't even work right. Movies wont play.~~

NVM. Vids work that way.

ZylonBane on 4/5/2010 at 20:19

(http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1096277#post1096277)

Adjust as needed for Thief.

Albert on 4/5/2010 at 20:20

NVM. I think I know how it would work. Maybe some configuration would help... maybe.

ZylonBane on 4/5/2010 at 20:32

Quote Posted by Albert

NVM.

NO U.

OfficerHalf on 4/5/2010 at 21:03

(http://portableapps.com/) PortableApps could do it. You'd have to do some registry finagling with the NSIS script but it's quite doable. Not all that hard.

Biggest issue would be that you couldn't really release it b/c you can't go around giving thief away. Maybe a batch file to do it for you? I dunno.