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Hello, I was wandering if I, before I buy CrossOver Games for my Mac, if installation is the only way to run games, or is it possible to bottle something I already have on a portable hard drive?

Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!

Depends on the application. Some applications you can just zip/copy the directory contents over and create an icon to launch it. Other applications require an installer that makes changes to your registry, etc. Or specific libraries that might have come with other software you've installed.

It'd be similar rules to moving a game from one Windows machine to another Windows machine.

In your case, you said its on a portable hard drive. Can you take that drive, connect it to another machine that has never run your game and just point to it and have it work? If so, you might be able to just zip everything and copy it to the Crossover directory and have it work.

What game are you trying to move?

Its World of Warcraft and I've been able to run it from three different PCs.

Will wrote:

Its World of Warcraft and I've been able to run it from three
different PCs.

This sounds like what you're trying to do:

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=1185;forum=1;msg=53689

Thanks, that pretty much answers my question.