OpenRails Install Profile on SD Card - 10/2/2018

[ZachBell4400]

My computer for the past week has gone through its final stages - sadly, it involves my OpenRails installation profile. What I'm attempting to do - and correct me if I'm wrong - is compressing my OR Installation Profile into a ZIP file and then uploading that to my 32GB SDHC card, prior to scrapping my old files. The question I have for the Trainsim community is this - once extracted, will my OpenRails installation profile function from my SD card, given that the GLOBAL, ROUTES, SOUND, and TRAINS folders (the last of the four having CONSISTS and TRAINSET), are intact and as-is?

[rdayt]

Zach,
It will probably run but SD cards don't have a fast enough transfer rate to be practical.
I would imagine your fps would be disappointingly low and you would experience a lot of stuttering.
Why not just copy the install back to your HDD/SSD?

Don't forget dotnet and XNA.

Randy

[geepster775]

Memory cards are easy to corrupt if not properly handled when in use.

If you are talking about temporary storage for a computer or hard drive swap out, there has to be more stable external hard drive or cloud storage options out there somewhere.

[DigitalRailways]

Simple solution -
1. Backup profile in SDCard.
2. Recycle the computer.
3. Get a new computer, with primary storage as SSD.
4. Restore your backup of OR Profile.
5. Enjoy