le717 Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Ok. Many people may already know this, but some people may not, so I thought I would share it. I have LEGO Racers installed on 2 of 4 computers in my house, and I have seen every now and then that people have been copying over their game to another computer or hard drive, and it worked. Well, I wanted to try to run the game on a different computer that did not have it installed, so I just tried it. I just copied thew whole folder that I installed LR to onto my flash drive, movies and all, plus a shortcut to the game. I went to another computer, plugged in the drive, and modified the shortcut to find the game on my flash drive. I clicked it...and it ran. It did not fill my entire screen (it was square), but I changed my controls a bit, and loaded up the first single race. I raced it and I won. I then closed the game, ejected my flash drive, and opened up regedit and searched "LEGO Racers", searching Keys, Value and Data. I only found 2 strings, which said Internet Explorer in the path name, and no folders whatsoever. I did run the game with the -novideo parameter in the shortcut, so I do not know if videos play. I will test that and get back. There's a weird bug with the videos on Win7 anyway. So, LEGO Racers run from a flash drive, with only 2 strings in the Registry, which were not created by the game EDIT: I just ran the game from the same flash drive on the same computer, but without the -novideo parameter, and the videos played (with the weird bug), and the game loaded. Just was going to update the post with that info! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JrMasterModelBuilder Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 It's true! I've never installed in on Win7 but it played so long as I used the -novideo param. Without it I get an error about memory drain, and if I'm unlucky, it leaves the screen resolution at 640x480. Maybe that would work if I installed it, but I don't really want to watch the videos any more (must have watch them more than a 1000 times when I was younger). Instead of using a shortcut, use a batch file (.bat). This script opens a folder called "LEGO Racers" and starts the exe and is completely portable. @ECHO OFF cd "LEGO Racers" start LEGORacers.exe -novideo exit I'm going to guess non-discless versions can't do this. A nice thing about running from an external drive is it gets around the user access control that would prevent it from writing the save files to the program folder without running as admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 @JrMasterModelBuilder Could you perhaps write some code to launch the game from a flash drive (F:/LEGO Racers 1)? I would like to try using a batch file, but I would not know how to code it. Also, how do you create a batch file? Just create a .txt file and rename it to .bat? Anyway, I know why there were some strings on the computer. It was because I used a shortcut to run the game, because I wanted to use the -novideo parameter. If I had run the game without a shortcut, there might not have been any thing in the registry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 @JrMasterModelBuilder Could you perhaps write some code to launch the game from a flash drive (F:/LEGO Racers 1)? I would like to try using a batch file, but I would not know how to code it. Also, how do you create a batch file? Just create a .txt file and rename it to .bat? You create a Batch file in the exact way you just said to; renaming a .txt file to .bat. And if what his post above says is correct, the code above in the box SHOULD be it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 The code will not work. I looked it up. "cd" looks for a cd and tries to find the exe from there. When I try it, all I get it an error message saying that Windows could not find the exe/location" Either way, running from a shortcut is fine, as long as that computer you are running it on belongs to you, or you have permission to create a shortcut... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead_name Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 The code will not work. I looked it up. "cd" looks for a cd and tries to find the exe from there. When I try it, all I get it an error message saying that Windows could not find the exe/location" Either way, running from a shortcut is fine, as long as that computer you are running it on belongs to you, or you have permission to create a shortcut... cd is the standard windows (and unix, coincidentally) command to enter a given directory. cd "LEGO Racers" enters a directory called "LEGO Racers", which should be in the same folder as the .bat file. The script then tries to run "LEGORacers.exe" from that directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
le717 Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 cd is the standard windows (and unix, coincidentally) command to enter a given directory. cd "LEGO Racers" enters a directory called "LEGO Racers", which should be in the same folder as the .bat file. The script then tries to run "LEGORacers.exe" from that directory. Thanks for that! I copied it onto my flash drive, clicked it, and it ran! Guess I should have thought of that... Anyway, can we get back to the purpose of this topic, which is running LR1 from a flash drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noob Slayer Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 This works for me as well. I loaded the LEGO Media folder onto my drive and copied the files to another - worked perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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