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Dart Ofrez
Dart Home Corp
#1 - 2016-03-16 08:04:50 UTC
Hello,

Because I'am often travelling for my business I would try to install EVE on my professionnal laptop, but i don't have administrator right on this computer.

So yesterday I installed EVE launcher on an USB external drive and it download all the files on it.

I am able to execute the laucher from this drive but it ask for directx installation too which requiered administrator right for installation ...

I don't know if there is another solution, maybe copying DLL files from anoter computer ?

Many thanks for your help.
Axhind
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2016-03-16 16:32:52 UTC
Dart Ofrez wrote:
Hello,

Because I'am often travelling for my business I would try to install EVE on my professionnal laptop, but i don't have administrator right on this computer.

So yesterday I installed EVE launcher on an USB external drive and it download all the files on it.

I am able to execute the laucher from this drive but it ask for directx installation too which requiered administrator right for installation ...

I don't know if there is another solution, maybe copying DLL files from anoter computer ?

Many thanks for your help.



General suggestion by sysadmins is to get a largish USB3 stick (128GB should be more than enough) and simply install windows on that for private use. That way you keep the business and private things completely separate (without risking any of your private data ending up in company hands or company whining about private programs and their computer).

Other than that I don't think that you can install directx without admin rights or trick the system into it. However it generally is already installed on win7+ so if launcher is just trying to run a directx install simply kill the install in the task manager and try again (I know that steam runs it on every install but doesn't react badly if the actual directx installation is blocked).
Dart Ofrez
Dart Home Corp
#3 - 2016-03-16 18:13:01 UTC

Thank for your reply.

I checked with dxdiag and, in fact, directx 11 is installed and running on my computer, so I supposed that it's just the launcher installation normal process to run it anyway.

But if I cancel this step the game launch is interupted and I cannot go forward.

Do you think that it's possible to bypass this step ?

Of course if there is no solution I will probably have to buy a windows licence and try to boot on exernal device but I'n not sure that policy constraint allow me to do that any
Axhind
Eternity INC.
Goonswarm Federation
#4 - 2016-03-16 18:35:44 UTC
Dart Ofrez wrote:

Thank for your reply.

I checked with dxdiag and, in fact, directx 11 is installed and running on my computer, so I supposed that it's just the launcher installation normal process to run it anyway.

But if I cancel this step the game launch is interupted and I cannot go forward.

Do you think that it's possible to bypass this step ?

Of course if there is no solution I will probably have to buy a windows licence and try to boot on exernal device but I'n not sure that policy constraint allow me to do that any



Only thing I can think of (other than devs changing the way installer works to just launch directx installer but not really demand that it runs properly) is to actually kill the process in the task manager and hope that eve install sees that as "successful" install. I doubt that it will work but it's worth a try.


In general there is no way to notice if you boot the computer from external stick. If your internal drives are encrypted (as they should be) you will not have access to them but that is actually good. You should keep the two as separate as possible.

There is an off chance that your machine uses TPM to check the boot media in which case you are either out of luck or can in best chance ask your IT department for help in making the private stick bootable.
Andromeda Moussou
Doomheim
#5 - 2016-03-16 20:01:23 UTC  |  Edited by: Andromeda Moussou
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CCP Snorlax
C C P
C C P Alliance
#6 - 2016-03-16 20:06:58 UTC
We only run the DirectX install if the game fails to initialize D3D. We don't look at return codes from the install, simply try again to initialize, so this indicates that something required is missing.

CCP Snorlax - Software Architect - Team RnB - @CCP_Snorlax - http://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.is/
Dart Ofrez
Dart Home Corp
#7 - 2016-03-16 20:07:36 UTC
I'm a little bit desesperate but your are probably right.

I also tryed to run first the game from my external drive plug on a personnal laptop assuming that it will not try to run directxredist again when going back to my first one but ... no ...