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Re: Can't Play Sims - Low Disk Space

This is happening to me as well. Deleted literally everything else off the drive and it's STILL giving me the same disk space error. Tried clearing the cache, didn't work. Tried repairing the game, givimg me disk space error again. I've resorted to deleting all the DLC I have downloaded to free up space because even just deleting some of it still didn't clear up enough space! Literally removed like 10gb of stuff, there's no way a simple patch update is THAT big!!!

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @Proxibius  Please list the free and total storage on all of the drives in your computer.  The problem may well be free storage on a different drive.

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    2 years ago

    @julial1239  Please list the free and total storage on all the drives in your computer.  You can see the numbers in a File Explorer window by clicking This PC in the left panel.

  • AtomicDazey's avatar
    AtomicDazey
    2 years ago

    Hi I have been having the same issue. I am trying to download sims 4 onto my D drive and it has over 700gb of space. I have deleted my entire game and all the files. I have resorted to trying to just download the base game and it says I only need 21gb to download it. But then it says low disk space. My C drive is very full but I am downloading the game onto the D drive so I'm not sure what is going wrong. Please help. 🙂

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    2 years ago

    @AtomicDazey  The problem is that the EA App sees the lack of free space on C even though you're trying to install to D.  The workaround is to clear enough space on C, at least temporarily, to allow the App to download Sims 4.

    As a side note, it would be best to have at least 25 GB free on C at all times for the overall health of your computer.  Windows can't install a feature update with less than about 20 GB, and temp files will take up space from time to time as well.

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