PR-0927 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Can you play it without an internet connection? What must you do to play it on another computer? No Internet connection needed, and Impulse does not have to be running. You just install the Impulse client on any PC you want the game on, and download and install it. Only DRM you'll encounter is anything already in the game from the developers (like the nonsense 3-installs-limit for a very small handful of games). Stardock (the company behind Impulse and the brilliant game Sins of a Solar Empire) doesn't believe in DRM usage, at least in the contemporary sense - you can't get game patches for games published by Stardock from anything other than Impulse, but that's the only thing. - PR-0927 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexrd Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 No Internet connection needed, and Impulse does not have to be running. You just install the Impulse client on any PC you want the game on, and download and install it. So, you can install the client, download the game, and then uninstall Impulse and still play the game? What about playing it on other computers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PR-0927 Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 So, you can install the client, download the game, and then uninstall Impulse and still play the game? What about playing it on other computers? Exactly. And unless the game has some in-game check on running it on multiple computers at the same time (like BFBC2, which will boot off one player from being logged into the game if it's running in two places and logged in with the same account - this kind of thing pretty much happens only in games with log-in features), you can run it for LAN or whatever. My roommate, brother, and some friends all like to LAN up Sins of a Solar Empire. Impulse doesn't even need to run. Only disadvantage is that you need Impulse for patches for all games published by Stardock, but that's not too much of a problem. And the games store is smaller than Steam's, but it's pretty decent nonetheless. - PR-0927 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swphreak Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 Has anyone bought any of the games on sale? There are a couple of games I would have bought if they didn't have third party DRM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynk Former Posted December 25, 2010 Share Posted December 25, 2010 I got a few things... but just today I bought the star wars collection and the id super pack... XD yay... trying to decide if I want to get the 2k collection or just get borderlands goty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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