how to put games on laptop without optical drive?

Hi all, I've decided that the gigabyte u2442v is going to be the laptop for me... for the price the specs seem pretty good and not to mention the weight is great for a highly capable laptop. The question is i bought Diablo 3 physical copy but the gigabyte doesn't have an optical drive so how exactly will i be able to play? I'm not really looking to buy and lug around an external op drive.Is there a way to get digital copy for free once you register your physical copy? Any suggestions? Thanks

 

External DVD drive? Really the only option I can see that would be viable.

 

As soon as you create your Diablo account on Blizzard's site, there is an option for a digital download. No need for the physical copy at all.

 

I think nowadays most PC games only install from the disk; and the disk is not required to play the game once it's installed.

But ya, I would get an external DVD drive.

 

Pallasathena are you talking about the "game client"? is that the digital copy? Thanks

 

If you are in the UK this baby cost me £15. Runs great looks great.

 

i used this thing called daemon tools or something, basically it creates a virtual cd drive and then you load the data from the cd onto it, so you dont need to have a drive to run the game.

 

If you have access to computers with optical drives (desktop/work/school?), make an image of the disc and then use a virtual disc drive to run it on your laptop?

 

Yes, there should be a way to use your product key to download the game from Blizzard, no need for optical drive.

I've been using a laptop with no optical drive for the past three years, so far it hasn't been a problem for me. These days, PC games get patched so much even if you were to buy a retail copy, you'd probably end up having to download the whole thing again.

 

Yes you add the key to your blizzard account and download the diablo client.

Thats what i did, and i even have a DVD drive, my net connection is faster than my optical drive though

 

what you can do is find a computer that has a disk drive, use a program call ISO magic or power ISO to make a virtual copy of the disk, its the same as "burning a disk" just it copies the disk into another file and stores it on your computer. you can then take a flash drive and use that to put it on your laptop. after that use the same software to create a virtual "drive" basically its a DVD drive simulation and can run the virtual ISO file like a DVD, if your really interested in this route just google "how to make ISO file" then "mount virtual drive." there is a lot of information surrounding this topic

this is how i store all my old PC games. since they are starting to get scratched and damaged. just a note keep your Product keys for each of your games so you can use them

 

I don't see the need to buy any extra hardware or install any third party software. Just log into battle.net and download the game installer.

battle.net -> login (same account info as your diablo 3 login info) -> account -> diablo 3 -> download game client -> (pick your platform: win or mac) -> run the installer

 

okay great thanks guys i guess blizzard makes it easy with having the game clients!:thumbsup:

 

You need another computer with a dvd drive and then you create a network between the 2 computers and share the dvd drive on the network.

 

Though this has been solved in a number of ways already, I'd like to add that installing from an ISO mounted to a virtual drive is really fast. Even with a hard drive instead of an SSD it's still magnitudes faster than installing from a disc, and you don't have to worry about your discs getting destroyed or lost as long as you keep the ISO backed up. Like campingtomz, this is how I store my old games.