Me and some friends have gotten bored of Minecraft. So I have begun work on getting Terraria on the school pcs so we can play during lunch. That means I need to remove the steam DRM and set it up so it does not use permissions.
My work begins at removing its need for permissions. It needs permission to install programs such as XNA and .NET Framework. There are two methods I came up with, research usbs and/or turbo to create a virtual environment where XNA and .NET can install. The other method is to store everything in with Terraria pre-installed. I chose the latter as it looks better for my friends who know less about computers.
So I started research for already complete ways. I researched methods for playing Terraria without XNA and I came across a post on the Terraria forum. It talked about a way to have XNA installed in the Terraria folder with no need to run any installer. Sadly the link to the download was removed by admins for legal reasons. But a look in the Wayback machine revealed that the link was archived and I could still download it. From there installation was easy. Thus the XNA problem was solved.
Now I needed .NET Framework. From sources, I learnt that this needed to be installed. It had been solved by a Reddit user who claimed that someone could use “spoon.net”(now turbo.net) to create an executable to run it in. I could not find much documentation on this use of spoon so I searched for other methods and found that windows came with it pre-installed on all versions. So chances are this is not a problem.
Once I was done with that I encountered the DRM problem. It was claimed to have been broken before but that no longer works as it was an older version. So I searched for other solutions and I found “Steamless” for that I needed Microsoft visual studio. By that time it was 11 pm and I had no time to do it after that was installed.
I will continue to work and should be done tomorrow.
Gaming on a School PC 