Installing multiple discs via usb

[millar_douglas]

I am staying at a family apartment and it has very limited internet, to get around this I bought the DVD version of Xcom 2. It actually comes with 4 dvds with all of the data which is amazing. TO run it I have a newish gaming laptop which unfortunately has no DVD drive. I used my old laptop to copy the data from the DVDs to a USB stick and copied form there onto my gaming laptop, so far so good. However when installing from this it asks me to insert the next DVD. is there a way to tell it where the DVD is copied to?

Cheers for any help.
Doug

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Have the data from all the discs in the install source folder.
For example, usually the disc 2 - whatever #
will just have large compressed files on the root of those discs;
have those be in the install folder, for example.

Upon insert next disc, click OK / Continue and it should see the files in the same driver letter / root folder. It's just scripted from the original installer to pause and ask for next disc.

I've done this with older games too; like DOOM3 retail disc (was 3x CDs) and I took the files; put on a local hard drive; was able to then make a single DVD; so the install was a lot faster overall. The same can apply to using a flash drive, large enough to hold multiple CD or DVD worth of the game disc data.

However, you will need Steam to connect to run the game; which will require that your download a large patch update. Most likely many GB worth.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/268500/discussions/0/364041517007050141

[_I_]

or use something like poweriso or alcahol120 to emulate cd/dvd drives
use it on the host to create iso image files from the orig discs
then copy the iso to a usb stick and to the pc without the dvd drive
then load poweriso or alcahol120 to mount each disk image when needed

but again, if steam has an update for the game, it will need to be downloaded before you can play it

if they are on the same network, you can use file sharing to transfer the files faster than usb

[Bad 💀 Motha]

yes having all the discs with the correct folder structure, compressed into an ISO then using an ISO emulator app to then run that whole ISO as if it were a Disc, works well too.

[millar_douglas]

Thanks I tried the files thing I guess I'll try ISO, thanks for the help.