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This guide will take you through how to get games up and running on the Samsung range of netbooks. This guide will be useful to owners of other makes of laptop where no optical drive (DVD or CD) is present. Please Note that this page will only detail legitimate sources. This site supports the hard work of commercial games makers.

External Optical Drives

This is probably the easiest way to get games on CDs and DVDs to run successfully on your netbook. Simply attach your drive, install the game, and run! Many games will check that you own a copy of the original install disc before running and if this is the case you will need to reattach the drive to play in many cases. There are sites on the internet that will circumnavigate copy protection methods but we do not recommend using them. Use of such "hacks" may not be legal in your country, and often these files are used as a way to install malware on your PC.

However many game publishers will actually remove their own CD check copy protection technology with a later patch. For example Epic games have historically done this with patches to their Unreal Tournament series. So it is worth checking the official publisher sites for legitimate patches which will remove copy protection.

If you are looking for a compatible drive, please check this list.

Networked Drives

If you do not have a drive to plug in it is possible to network a drive from your desktop or secondary laptop.

Download Services

In the new age of digital delivery there are some maturing game download services that offer a convenient product with competitive prices.

Steam

A History of Steam

Valve's download service is arguably the most successful and well known. By insisting that purchesers of the game Half Life 2 had the Steam software installed on their PCs, Valve ensured that their system was setup on millions of PCs around the world. Although this move resulted in delays to the release of HL2 in the long run this proved a great move. Steam was initially controversial with many people not understanding quite how it worked and feared that their accounts would be locked out too easily. But in time users began to see the advantages of a simple delivery system that managed updates and new purcheses without the worry of further complicated copy protection software.