Can War-Thunder be played on a laptop if its installed on an externel hard-drive? (SSD etc)

[Roof Ripper]

My computer doesn't have enough space for War Thunder and some other games and I don't want to just have to juggle around which games are installed. However, I have a 1 Terra-byte external storage that is connected by USB. If it doesn't work, then I'll have to do something else, but if it does work, then I'll install it on my external data bank (SSD).
I don't really care about performance, I have an 8th Gen i7 core powering my laptop. So its not very powerful (potato graphics for War-Thunder

[Wandering Flare]

If your laptop can somehow run it, then yes. I've had it installed on my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for the purposes of picking up daily logins while my PC was down and it could just barely load the hangar.

[CEPHY]

I mean, the game doesn't really care where you install it.

What matters is that your specs are good enough to run the game at a playable framerate.

That said, a USB connection can possibly slow down an external SSD. Won't break anything, it'll just take longer to load.

[Roof Ripper]

Originally posted by Wandering Flare:

If your laptop can somehow run it, then yes. I've had it installed on my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ for the purposes of picking up daily logins while my PC was down and it could just barely load the hangar.

Thanks, I've ran War Thunder on my PC before and it ran (played at like 7-30 fps) thanks for the feedback

[Roof Ripper]

Originally posted by CEPHY:

I mean, the game doesn't really care where you install it.

What matters is that your specs are good enough to run the game at a playable framerate.

That said, a USB connection can possibly slow down an external SSD. Won't break anything, it'll just take longer to load.

Thanks for the tips and information.

[Canadian Guitar]

I would think you're going to have some pretty slow load times for matches doing this however.

Depending what other games you're playing, it might be worth juggling once and putting War Thunder on a drive in your laptop, and other games on the external

[French Cat]

Yea I’ve done it multiple times before. I’d download multiple games onto an external drive, then plug that drive on an extremely locked down computer, and play games on it. Just as long the computer can handle the games, it should work fine.