Move your game to another drive

Move your game to another drive

The Sims 4 is continuously growing in size with every new DLC you install and consequently your C:\ drive can run out of disk-space.
Many computers also have a D:\ drive with plenty of space, so maybe you want to move the game from C:\ to D:\ (or even an external drive, beware an external drive could make the start of your game much slower and you must give that drive a fixed station-letter like Z:\).

Owners of a legal game

Unfortunately, it is not possible in the EA app to move your game (as you could in the good old Origin)
However, you can still move your game to another location without downloading all the DLC’s etc.

  1. Copy (not move) your existing game folder the Sims 4 to another location on your computer.
  2. Open the EA app
  3. Click on the icon of the Sims 4 ->Manage -> Uninstall
  4. Your old folder of the Sims 4 incl. all DLC’s in there are now removed.
  5. When done, close the EA app.
  6. Open the EA app – Search for The Sims 4, Click on the icon of the Sims 4  -> Download
  7. Select the location where you copied your existing The Sims 4 to.
    This will now be your new installation folder incl. all (cracked) DLC’s you had
    Your existing Sims, Saves etc. are untouched and still fully playable.

 

Owners of cracked games only:

  1. Go to your present installation folder of the Sims 4 (don’t open it)
  2. Right-click on it
  3. Select Copy to
  4. Select the drive where you want the new installation folder
  5. When finished make a new shortcut of  the new location\Game\Bin\TS4_x64.exe
  6. Test your game – when all OK delete the old installation folder

 

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