Portable Silkroad Online?

slimshady · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:27 am

Hey guys i just thought of somthing that would be really cool if its even possible.

Buy a 4 GB USB stick and copy your silkroad folder onto it which is about 2.2 GB.

Then can you take it to any computer at school or work and play it from the USB drive without ever having to install it on the computer?

stewie316 · **Joined:** Aug 2007 **Posts:** 296 **Location:**

Yes it is possible, but only if the school computer can run it and you have sufficient administrator rights.

Pilot · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 670 **Location:** Above you

Basically a memory stick that can fit a complete client which can be shoved into any usb port and will magically run the game. Not very feasible

slimshady · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:38 am

stewie316 wrote:

Yes it is possible, but only if the school computer can run it and you have sufficient administrator rights.

What kinda of rights would you need? Your not installing or downloading anything. I looked at staples tonight and all i saw was 1,2 or 4 GB drives. I guess they dont make 3 GB.

_SomeOne_ · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 735 **Location:**

iv done this...
i got a 4gb usb stick
PC>Laptop..
it works for me.. and when i reformat my pc.. i just put it on the usb and transfer it back when im done

Hiredsin · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 354 **Location:**

Well schools have firewalls which prevent you from downloading certain things or running other things also

slimshady · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:55 am

ok well i guess you all should try it and see how it goes. If I decide to buy a stick that big, Ill try it at my internet cafe at college. Wouldnt it just be funny to be sitting in the back of the computer lab playing silkroad instead of doing homework, or somthing to do while killing time waiting for the next class to start?

_SomeOne_ · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 735 **Location:**

slimshady wrote:

ok well i guess you all should try it and see how it goes. If I decide to buy a stick that big, Ill try it at my internet cafe at college. Wouldnt it just be funny to be sitting in the back of the computer lab playing silkroad instead of doing homework, or somthing to do while killing time waiting for the next class to start?

YESSSSSSSS THAT WOULD BE SOOOO FUN
trying to log in and when u do ur class starts !
i would have the time of my life !!!!!!!

Velocity · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 437 **Location:** ...

that would be the coolest thing ever

_Shinigami_ · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 2191 **Location:**

lol this is an idea that only an addicted sro player would do :roll:

geez take a break from sro

Hiredsin · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 354 **Location:**

_Shinigami_ wrote:

lol this is an idea that only an addicted sro player would do :roll:

geez take a break from sro

True dat

ranger4life · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 2526 **Location:**

anyone tried it yet?

Hiredsin · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 354 **Location:**

Yeah I do it. I dont take up space on my hard drive. So i save it on my external hard drive

ranger4life · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 2526 **Location:**

Hiredsin wrote:

Yeah I do it. I dont take up space on my hard drive. So i save it on my external hard drive

?????
wat we mean is putting it on a portable USB stick and see if it opens up on a computer with no silkroad backround

DavidHe · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 58 **Location:**

I've tried it with Maplestory and I assume this would apply to most games.
THis would be very impractical for many reasons.
1) Running anything off of a usb flash drive is SLOW. considering its SRO, it will be even slower.
2) For high schools, you have to have administrator rights to run certain things. Gameguard is one of those things which is (was) blocked when I tried at school.
Lots of other reasons why.
If you're in college, just bring a labtop. Else its really not worth it to risk losing a 2+Gb flash drive with SRO on it simply for an hour of class. Also, the teacher has to be pretty oblivious to not notice this.

slimshady · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:24 am

I think there was a topic posted about someone on here that they caught their teacher playing silkroad lol.

ranger4life · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 2526 **Location:**

ok i just tried it with runescape, the client version. and apperantly. it works fine. but very slow as that other guy said, as i and the other guy imagined, this would make sro run EXTREMELY slow, so unless all your gonna do is stall, then its not worht it

Hiredsin · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 354 **Location:**

Yeah its slow and yeah my external hard drive is like usb stick but Bigger hehe

ranger4life · **Joined:** Mar 2006 **Posts:** 2526 **Location:**

Hiredsin wrote:

Yeah its slow and yeah my external hard drive is like usb stick but Bigger hehe

i am CERTAIN your teacher would notice your hard drive connected to your computer. its probably best to secretly connect the usb on the back of the computer, making it harder to notice

Hiredsin · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 354 **Location:**

mmhmm but if you do play at school and find a way around the firewalls.

Well that just means your addicted. and that IS BAD

MiKe 51-50 · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1284 **Location:**

stewie316 wrote:

Yes it is possible, but only if the school computer can run it and you have sufficient administrator rights.

I play cs 1.6 at school all the time from usb.

Only thing is with sro it needs to read all 2 gb of the data on the flash drive. Most flash drives read at a slow rate of 40mb\s. Will take years to load. Thats why with Cs 1.6, I copy the full file onto desktop then play lag free. With copy and paste I had a full computer lab of cs running a lan party.
School is so much fun.

DavidHe · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 58 **Location:**

MiKe 51-50 wrote:

stewie316 wrote:

Yes it is possible, but only if the school computer can run it and you have sufficient administrator rights.

I play cs 1.6 at school all the time from usb.

Only thing is with sro it needs to read all 2 gb of the data on the flash drive. Most flash drives read at a slow rate of 40mb\s. Will take years to load. Thats why with Cs 1.6, I copy the full file onto desktop then play lag free. With copy and paste I had a full computer lab of cs running a lan party.
School is so much fun.

Haha I'll try it after finals. Did you copy the whole steam program files?

MiKe 51-50 · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1284 **Location:**

DavidHe wrote:

MiKe 51-50 wrote:

stewie316 wrote:

Yes it is possible, but only if the school computer can run it and you have sufficient administrator rights.

I play cs 1.6 at school all the time from usb.

Only thing is with sro it needs to read all 2 gb of the data on the flash drive. Most flash drives read at a slow rate of 40mb\s. Will take years to load. Thats why with Cs 1.6, I copy the full file onto desktop then play lag free. With copy and paste I had a full computer lab of cs running a lan party.
School is so much fun.

Haha I'll try it after finals. Did you copy the whole steam program files?

no no no...............
I used decayed cs 1.6 which is a cracked small version of it to fit on usb. Around 400 mb in a file. Cracked is so everyone can play. lol
heres a link http://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22581

Nyahgis · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 680 **Location:**

Flash Stick = slow, portable hard drive with firewire works for me though.

Nader · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 1591 **Location:**

i shorta did that, but only used a 250 gig portable usb jacked harddrive XD, works fine with many games + MILLIONS of music songs. XD

torinchibi · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 1357 **Location:**

I am surprised that works...I would have guessed you need some files in the registry but I guess with the self updaters those files will get installed? I also didn't think it would modify the host file to allow you to connect to the sro folder... I guess updater would do that too. Quite surprised it actually works.

-.- · **Posted:** Wed Jan 23, 2008 5:11 am

hah im almost as bad...

i use my mp3 player and stuck sro onto it

since it has room and well, why carry two things when i can use mp3 player as flash drive too

4chan · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 243 **Location:**

Eh, my version of a portable silkroad would be my laptop...

Nader · **Joined:** Sep 2007 **Posts:** 1591 **Location:**

i have that too , which im on Right now,

4chan wrote:

Eh, my version of a portable silkroad would be my laptop...

Vandango · **Joined:** Jun 2006 **Posts:** 4143 **Location:**

O Yes i tried playing SRO at college like where i am now but i cant configure the firewall to allow SRO

i just get the Server is undergoing updates and inspection

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