A friend of mine recently came back from the EU and is living with his parents until he is established back home. He has a battle.net login he can use in this region, but doesn't want to download the full game on his parent's (poor) internet.
A solution I came up with was to copy my fully patched game to DVD (or USB) and send it to him by post. He could then hopefully copy it and run it on his computer without needing the huge download.
Yup, do this. Just make sure you copy the folder in Program Files AND the one in My Documents, and make sure he puts these in the right places. You are probably gonna need a 16GB flash drive, though, because the game is 12 GB.
I've been wondering this myself, but this solution seems 'dirty'... it just doesn't sit right with me. Is it 100% OK to do this? Are the patch executables saved somewhere so that one can install vanilla and then manually run the patch files sequentially?
I just (2 days ago) copied my entire Starcraft II folder in Program Files from one computer to another with no issues. You need to log in and log out then log back in to enable single player though.
I didn't know you could copy an installed program from one computer to another like that. Correct me if i am wrong but I remember reading somewhere that most applications copy something into the registry to prevent the transfering of programs in this manner. Is this even legal according to the terms of the EULA?
On January 19 2011 05:43 undyinglight wrote: I didn't know you could copy an installed program from one computer to another like that. Correct me if i am wrong but I remember reading somewhere that most applications copy something into the registry to prevent the transfering of programs in this manner. Is this even legal according to the terms of the EULA?
I think that this is a blizzard thing. Every blizzard game I have tried it with is transferable in this manner.
On January 19 2011 05:43 undyinglight wrote: I didn't know you could copy an installed program from one computer to another like that. Correct me if i am wrong but I remember reading somewhere that most applications copy something into the registry to prevent the transfering of programs in this manner. Is this even legal according to the terms of the EULA?
You're thinking of BW/WC3/LOD/D1...? You'd need a different mpq file for that one... the rest of the files can be copied, but SC2 has the keys to the account instead
On January 19 2011 05:43 undyinglight wrote: I didn't know you could copy an installed program from one computer to another like that. Correct me if i am wrong but I remember reading somewhere that most applications copy something into the registry to prevent the transfering of programs in this manner. Is this even legal according to the terms of the EULA?
I think that this is a blizzard thing. Every blizzard game I have tried it with is transferable in this manner.
So thumbs up to blizz!
Oh wow, I must say that is pretty awesome right there. Does it violate the EULA though? Also can other applications (non Blizzard) be transfered in this manner?
its perfectly ok to copy the game files to another computer. Blizzard lets you install their games without purchase anyways.... you just need a bnet account to play.
On January 19 2011 16:05 undyinglight wrote: Oh wow, I must say that is pretty awesome right there. Does it violate the EULA though? Also can other applications (non Blizzard) be transfered in this manner?
doesn't violate the EULA, you don't change anything at all and you don't need to copy the stuff in the "My Documents" folder, the contents of these are created the first time you start the game (caching maps and stuff) but this solution doesn't work for most of the games tho, they register itself in windows and stuff and can't be started after copying. But p.e. SC2 and WoW work well if you copy them :D
On January 18 2011 14:07 Phaded wrote:You need to log in and log out then log back in to enable single player though.
What, everytime? Or the first time?
Just the first time for me. After logging in the single player button and replay button were greyed out. Probably because I didn't have a starcraft 2 folder in my documents. Logged back in and everything was smooth sailing
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