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N.U.K.E.

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Pendrive tremulous?
« on: February 11, 2011, 05:23:58 pm »
Not sure if I'm posting in the right forum for this, but would it be possible to run trem from a USB drive, without having to install anything?
Trying to get it running at school, but they don't let you install anything.
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 06:57:33 pm »
Yep, download the zip and unzip it somewhere on the pendrive and sorted.

If you don't want it dumping downloaded stuff / settings in your home directory, then you can start it with +set fs_homepath /some/path/on/the/usb/thing to get that on there too.
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 07:56:12 pm »
Quote from: David on February 11, 2011, 06:57:33 pm
Yep, download the zip and unzip it somewhere on the pendrive and sorted.

If you don't want it dumping downloaded stuff / settings in your home directory, then you can start it with +set fs_homepath /some/path/on/the/usb/thing to get that on there too.

Eh, setting fs_homepath to on the USB means that every time it needs to refer to autogen.cfg (or any other .cfg) you'll do a read to your USB drive. Depending on how good your USB drive is, that could be rather slow. However, in general, its not that bad to run trem off of a flashdrive, and just make a bash or batch script (depending on OS) to clean the default fs_homepath.
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 08:07:28 pm »
The OS should cache it, and the files aren't big enough to care.
The maps etc are where the problems could be, but half-decent drives are cheap enough these days.
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2011, 10:38:35 pm »
It works 100%. I did it allready and obbliberated my friend.
As a human, i won in 3 minuites, and alien 5
I dont know how i did that, even though his KDR in cod is a whooping 6.27!
Soo... yeah. NetRadiant also works at school. However, you wont be able to acess the online servers (for 1.1 at least. Not sure of 1.2)( Getting responce from -1 servers...) Local Games work.
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 10:48:06 pm »
Wait... So transferring my trem files would be enough, no installer involved? As for the flashdrive damage problem, I can store the files on the pc for one session. So that's not a problem.
Nice :)
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Re: Pendrive tremulous?
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 10:51:06 pm »
I think their concern was more about the read speed than wear from writes, either way it's a non-issue and you should be fine.
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