Actually it does work. The only issue you'll run into is you need an internet connect to login to your account. I run the editor from an old ipod all the time.
Yeah it should work. I have often copied my SC2 installation to an external hard drive, uninstalled the game from the local HD, and was still able to run the game and the editor from the ext HD. Downside is saving a map will be very slow. So if you can copy the files to the other machine then you should do it.
Just wanted to confirm it does work.
The only problem I ran into is that it requires me to authenticate to battle.net before I can 'use' the editor, which is troublesome as I'm behind a proxy server that doesn't let through traffic on that port.
I was able to organise a 'work-around', but others may run into similar problems in a corporate environment.
Just to clarify:
I just copied my entire StarCraft II folder onto an external drive, then ran the "StarCraft II Editor.exe" from the root directory.
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Can the SC2 editor be run from an external drive? or run without having to install the full Starcraft 2 game?
am wanting to do data editing while I have free time at work, but highly doubt I'll be able to install Starcraft 2 on the machine.
@XViper: Go
If you have a CD you could put the CD in your work computer and chose the instilation folder as the external hard drive. That should work fine.
But if you install SC2 at home onto the external hard drive and then take it to work there's a good chance it won't work.
@finiteturtles: Go
Actually it does work. The only issue you'll run into is you need an internet connect to login to your account. I run the editor from an old ipod all the time.
Yeah it should work. I have often copied my SC2 installation to an external hard drive, uninstalled the game from the local HD, and was still able to run the game and the editor from the ext HD. Downside is saving a map will be very slow. So if you can copy the files to the other machine then you should do it.
@hobbidude: Go
On your iPod? How the hell does that work?
@JacktheArcher: Go
I dint kniw about ipods really but i think he probably means that he is using the ipod as a usb stick on a machine
Just copying the relevant StarCraft 2 folders from my PC onto another PC shouldn't be a problem.
Good to know it will work before I waste the time. Thanks guys :) Will give it a shot and get back to you just to confirm :)
Just wanted to confirm it does work. The only problem I ran into is that it requires me to authenticate to battle.net before I can 'use' the editor, which is troublesome as I'm behind a proxy server that doesn't let through traffic on that port.
I was able to organise a 'work-around', but others may run into similar problems in a corporate environment.
Just to clarify: I just copied my entire StarCraft II folder onto an external drive, then ran the "StarCraft II Editor.exe" from the root directory.