Quote Originally Posted by Kirika- View Post
While it is possible to run games from an external drive via USB, FF14 doesn't even like being installed on the non-OS drive in a fair amount of cases....
I would suggest installing the game on the laptop onto the OS drive. If you don't have enough room, I suggest upgrading your OS drive.
You didn't give the make/model/year of your laptop, but if the OS drive is an NVMe SSD, then you defiantly want the game loaded on that as your load/zone times will be greatly reduced.

You might also consider shucking the SSD out of the Seagate One Touch and use it in place of the secondary HD in your laptop as an upgrade, just search online on How To disassemble your One Touch to remove and re-purpose it's SSD.
The Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptops exist in several variations of their specs, so a model number and a device name won't help much.

I moved the game from the OS SSD because I need the free space there. That's why I got me an external SSD in the first place. Also, according to googled comments from other players on different forum platforms FF14 does run on an external SSD and HDD without problems.

And I will for sure not crack open my new SSD to build it into my laptop for having less safe space at the end. Why would I trade 3 drives in exchange for 2 overall?