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Title: Does game run from cd
Post by: dbuske on Mon 04/04/2011 22:48:02

I burned my Bapu game to cd, but it wouldn't run. It apparently can't be written to and run.
Is there a way to get it to run from the cd.

Title: Re: Does game run from cd
Post by: Joe on Tue 05/04/2011 11:32:55

Which version of AGS are you using. If you are using 2.72 or lower maybe it's because the savegame directory is in the game folder, in your case, the CD, what would make impossible to the game to create the agssave.999 file
In AGS 3.1 or higher the savegame directory is Mydocs...

Title: Re: Does game run from cd
Post by: dbuske on Tue 05/04/2011 13:06:30

Thanks, I am sure that is it. I wanted to offer the game to our little local library for the kids to play.
A nice little historical game about Gandhi. They may not want it if the game has to be installed on the hard disk.

Title: Re: Does game run from cd
Post by: Gilbert on Tue 05/04/2011 15:02:09

This is actually sorta possible since long time ago (V2.2):

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- Added datadir section to acsetup.cfg to allow data files to be loaded from alternate directory (eg. CD-ROM, etc).

I haven't really tried it but I think what you do is to put the game data files on the CD but the executable in your harddisk, with the config file properly set and stuff will be saved in the harddisk.

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AGS Support => Beginners' Technical Questions => Topic started by: dbuske on Mon 04/04/2011 22:48:02