portable installation?

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portable installation?

June 26, 2010, 11:44:01 pm

downloaded and running setup. a popup appears and asks: Should this be a portable installation? yes/no

Huh?

hell if I know. What is a portable installation? I'm not taking it anywhere. Well I really don't want to know, I guess I just want to know what to click yes or no. Thanks.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #1 – June 27, 2010, 02:30:04 am

portable installation save all files ( save games, screenshots ) in programm folder

you must write rights for the programm folder and you can not load addon/load without addon ( addons save in user folder ) on start simutrans

Re: portable installation?

Reply #2 – June 27, 2010, 10:09:28 am

So I want to click yes if I want the game to save in the same folder, load any addon? Basically yes would be the default choice? Thanks for your help, Frank!

Re: portable installation?

Reply #3 – June 27, 2010, 07:26:47 pm

The default installation should be No for normal installation, since it store all user configurable settings in My Documents, where also addons can be installed. Portable has some additional restrictions.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #4 – June 27, 2010, 08:57:43 pm

Ok. Thanks. What I found was if I try and put the game where I normally put games C:\Games I get the portable question and if I put it in the default location I'm not even asked.

Anyway both attemps never finish as I get hung up (not responding) when I get to the part thats downloading simupak64-102-2-2.zip.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #5 – June 27, 2010, 09:07:40 pm

You can just download and unzip the executable and the pak into this directory, even if sourceforge is busy. No further installation is done.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #6 – June 27, 2010, 09:16:32 pm

I was going to do that first but when I was given a choice between Window native and Windows w/ SDL I opted for the online installer. But now I'm back to the aforementioned choice, and still not sure which to pick.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #7 – June 28, 2010, 12:55:48 pm

If you do not use 16 bit unicode: Use the SDL version.

Re: portable installation?

Reply #8 – June 28, 2010, 01:20:01 pm

Thank you. I'll dl the SDL version as I'm running 64 bit windows vista. Thanks again.