Origin Client - Move / Locate Installed Games

Hi EA Community!

I am not sure if this question has been explained in depth at all? I am about to receive my new computer (finally a gaming computer) and I am so excited to play my new games. I have all of the Sims 3 Expansions and Stuff Packs all bought from the shops, except two which have been direct downloads but they show up in the origin client, I also have SimCity but as a digital download. I am wondering If I can transfer them over to my new windows 8 pc?

IS this hard? Could someone please give me some detailed instructions?

Thanks!

Heya, that's not hard at all 🙂

All your games are tied to your Origin account and not the computer itself, so if you would like to play your games on another computer, simply download and install the Origin client, log in with the same Origin account that you were using before (there is no need to create a new one) and all your games will be sitting in your games library, just as they do now. From there you can download and install them again.

Let us know if that doesn't help or if there are any other questions. 

Hey there, well they should open up the origin launcher on your new computer and all the games should be there, you may need to re install them to your hard drive but they should be good to go. If you have physical editions/copies just insert the disc from your old computer and it will reinstall the DLC/Game if you want to you can just copy allyour data on to a flash drive and use that to transfer all your data into the new computer! Hope this helps and have fun playing 🙂

I am having a problem like this but the games dont show up in  my game library. Any help would be great.

That might be a stupid question, but please make sure you are logged in with the correct account since games are tied to the specific account they were redeemed on. If you log in with the exact same account that was used here, you should see some games in your library. Also check the filter settings on top of your library and set them to Show All.

If it's still not showing any games for you, please contact a Game Advisor.

You can contact EA Help via the EA Help website. Detailed instructions on how to use the EA Help service can be found here.

I reinstalled it a couple times and logging in to my account a few times my games showed up thanks for the help

# Make a copy of the game folders in C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games (or the location you use as the installation
folder) and save them to a seperate disk.

If you have to (re)install a game:

1 Download and install the latest Origin client from the Origin store if needed. https://www.origin.com/download

2 Start and login to your Origin client.

3 Right click the games you want to install and choose download.

4 Once the downloads are running on those games, pause the downloads

5 Exit the Origin client.

6 Copy back the game folders to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games and overwrite existing files that were downloaded.

7 After copying, start the Origin client again

8 Resume the downloads.

Origin will now check all the files and only downloads missing/corrupted one. In normal cases this is done very fast and Origin will start installing the game(s)

without the need to download the games again.

Steps 5+7 are not always needed but it is a little saver. Without the client running you are certain no files are being used/read/downloaded

at the time so your files are properly checked when resuming downloads (step 8)

This will not backup your game settings folders! Enable cloud storage to save settings and game saves or copy the game directories

in "your documents".

I have my Windows copy installed to an SSD, and I recently formatted and reinstalled.

All my games, and Origin, are on a separate HDD.

Now when I log into Origin my purchased games are visible, but it asks me to download them all again instead of using the already installed copies on the HDD.

I can't download games because I live in a rural area and my internet sucks. It would be really great if there were a way to get Origin to see the installs, because otherwise I'm not going to be able to play my games.

I hope someone can give me some pointers. Thanks and don't forget to be awesome!

Hi,

- copy your game folders on your drive to a seperate directory.

(don't copy to another disc, just change directory, it's much quicker)

- Open and login to your Origin client.

- Start all downloads and pause a download when a few Kb's have been received

- When all downloads are paused, exit Origin.

- Copy all game folders back to the Origin location and overwrite existing files.

- Open and login to your Origin client

- Resume all downloads

Origin will "download" all games but actually just performs a files check and will only

download missing files. After checking files the game(s) will be installed.

That part isnt hard, but the main problem when moving from one PC to another isnt downloading the client, its haveing to redownload the game.

I usually ask people who are coming from a different country to download games for me and bring them on an external harddisk, because in my country like in many many others around here the max conneciton you can get is 1mb. and you have a 5-15gb download limit per month.

Which makes the system impossible unless you can easily have someone download the game on a fast connection back it up and give it to you.

This is why Steam is superior.

I'm hoping Origin has a similar system, otherwise you're just encouraging poeple to pirate your games, its a far simpler and cheaper solution.