Moving Game files to SSD?
I recently got an SSD just for my games, but I'm not sure if I am using it properly. I copied all of my Sims games files from C:/ProgramFiles(X86)/Electronic Arts onto the SSD drive. I loaded the game...
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I'll have to defer to others here with more personal experience with Samsung and Nvidia (my cards are all AMD). Not sure the very high GPU usage indicated in Task Manager is really anything to be concerned about as it would be with CPU. I believe that could mean the card is being used for as many graphics related tasks as it can possibly be. But with a slightly weaker than optimal processor, yeah that might be kind of an indirect symptom. GeForce Experience is not a requirement. It's perhaps a more convenient way to deliver driver updates, but we do know that its Optimize function can make a mess out of the performance of older games like TS3 and probably some newer ones as well.
If the games are registered to you or now can be, then you don't need the discs at all. You can install the game and its EP/SPs by way of Origin instead, and Patch 1.69 is delivered automatically with no choices given. That ties the game to Origin and the Launcher though, which means that you do have to use Origin or at least have it running in the beginning to startup the game. With 1.67 (and below), the game can be started with a Launcher bypass to the TS3w.exe file, but that trick won't work on Patch 1.69 -- instead double-clicking on such a shortcut just takes you back to Origin.
If the games are registered to you or now can be, then you don't need the discs at all. You can install the game and its EP/SPs by way of Origin instead, and Patch 1.69 is delivered automatically with no choices given. That ties the game to Origin and the Launcher though, which means that you do have to use Origin or at least have it running in the beginning to startup the game. With 1.67 (and below), the game can be started with a Launcher bypass to the TS3w.exe file, but that trick won't work on Patch 1.69 -- instead double-clicking on such a shortcut just takes you back to Origin.
