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tandoc
April 12th, 2002, 20:26
i have an 8gb hd in 2 4gb partitons....

i'm running out of space on my 'games' partition.. and i amalso running WinXp Pro.. so i can compress folders... does anyone knnow if counter-strike, half-life and opposing force can run in a compressed folder? those 3 games alone take up more than a quarter of myentire hard drive.....
[lhomme]
April 12th, 2002, 21:27
Almost all new games cannot be compressed (and operate) or at least suffer in performance somewhat.
tandoc
April 12th, 2002, 22:04
half life is old.. like 1997 old.. using the Quake I engine.... i know Quake II and Quake III Arena cannot operate on compressed dfolder.. i have both
max_payne
April 12th, 2002, 23:43
Originally posted by andytandoc
half life is old.. like 1997 old.. using the Quake I engine.... i know Quake II and Quake III Arena cannot operate on compressed dfolder.. i have both
No game can run in a compressed folder... Unless u have a 10ghz cpu, and a 128000 rpm harddrice!
tandoc
April 12th, 2002, 23:50
hmm.. that's funny.. i can run a couple of games in a compressed folder with out compromissing the speed....
max_payne
April 12th, 2002, 23:52
how fast is ur pc? I got a p4 @ 1.7 ghz
tandoc
April 13th, 2002, 02:54
AMD k-6 500 mHz .. what does this have to do with this topic?
is0lized
April 13th, 2002, 03:56
why dont you use partition magic or something and transfer some space back over to your main partition - or mabey install on your other partition
Jan
April 13th, 2002, 04:12
Originally posted by max_payne
how fast is ur pc? I got a p4 @ 1.7 ghz
max_payne, you have posted a lot of off topic comments today all over the place. Please read the sticky at the top of the this forum, aptly titled I think!
tandoc
April 13th, 2002, 04:59
Originally posted by is0lized
why dont you use partition magic or something and transfer some space back over to your main partition - or mabey install on your other partition

well actually my games partition has about 200mb more than my system/essential program parition. Altogether I have about 3gb left.. but i like to have at least 1gb left on partitions, because i frequently just download too many things and i have to spend a day clearing it up...


and i don't have partition magic, and from what i heard you have to pay, which i do not want to do

the only reason i want to know if there is a way to run half life and those mods is because I just got 2 new games, and i'm tired of installing on minimum mode....