24.04.2009, 17:11
hey
this has been on my mind for a very long time now. i just never seemed to get a chance to post it.
what i am wondering, is how hard (or easy?) it would be to portablize the SA-MP client? i would like to take my game with me and play it on a few workstations at school when i often get stuck doing nothing for an hour.
this much i do know: San Andreas will run from any folder on any drive letter. It makes a GTA User Files in the machine's My Docs folder if one does not exist. No problem, as the target machine has My Docs mapped out to a Novell server. it starts up no problem on said workstation (it is deep frozen but otherwise not locked down in any way) and plays very well via a USB hard drive.
i tried placing SA-MP into my portable copy of SA, but it does not work. throws me an error message (i cannot remember what it is atm). if i install it to the computer, pointing it to my portable SA, it installs and runs just fine. until i come back tomorrow (or restart the machine).
i am guessing there are some registry keys associated with the browser that keep it from working like this? if so i would like some information on this, because i think i could just write a batch script that would add the keys, find and launch SA-MP, and auto join the server i play. since the only computers i will be running such a script on are always in a frozen state, there would be no trace
well shit this is a long post, i appologise if this puts anyone asleep
thanks
this has been on my mind for a very long time now. i just never seemed to get a chance to post it.
what i am wondering, is how hard (or easy?) it would be to portablize the SA-MP client? i would like to take my game with me and play it on a few workstations at school when i often get stuck doing nothing for an hour.
this much i do know: San Andreas will run from any folder on any drive letter. It makes a GTA User Files in the machine's My Docs folder if one does not exist. No problem, as the target machine has My Docs mapped out to a Novell server. it starts up no problem on said workstation (it is deep frozen but otherwise not locked down in any way) and plays very well via a USB hard drive.
i tried placing SA-MP into my portable copy of SA, but it does not work. throws me an error message (i cannot remember what it is atm). if i install it to the computer, pointing it to my portable SA, it installs and runs just fine. until i come back tomorrow (or restart the machine).
i am guessing there are some registry keys associated with the browser that keep it from working like this? if so i would like some information on this, because i think i could just write a batch script that would add the keys, find and launch SA-MP, and auto join the server i play. since the only computers i will be running such a script on are always in a frozen state, there would be no trace
well shit this is a long post, i appologise if this puts anyone asleep
thanks