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mapleleagirl's avatar
8 years ago

Does game progress get saved to origin?

Hi I am getting a new computer today. If I save my sims 4 game as usual and quit the game and factory reset my old computer so I can sell it, can I download origin onto my new computer and will all my progress still be the same on sims? Or do I have to go through moving folders and all that fun stuff because I’m not good with that kind of thing lol.

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  • CMeki's avatar
    CMeki
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    Hi @mapleleagirl

    Sadly the Sims 4 does not have could save, you have to move the files to your new computer or sync them via onedrive. You can usually find your saves in here:

     C:\Users\Username\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 to your Desktop and start the game.

    Good luck!

  • How do you sync in the OneDrive?!  I'm having a wicked of a time trying to get this done.  Now I can't find what I saved to my OneDrive.  I am REALLY starting to HATE Microsoft Windows 10 updates! 

  • Could I put the folders I need into a USB and transfer them that way? And what are all the folders I would need to transfer to have worlds and everything I ever had? Could I just put the whole sims 4 folder in a USB and put that into my new computer? Thanks
  • mcsupersport's avatar
    mcsupersport
    Hero+
    8 years ago

    I will also say, I have seen someone post a crashing issue for another game that was caused by OneDrive taking the info off their computer and saving it on the cloud.  When the program needed that info it was not where it put it and thus crashed the game.  They had to turn off OneDrive to keep the game from crashing after OneDrive backed/moved things around.

  • CMeki's avatar
    CMeki
    Hero (Retired)
    8 years ago

    @mapleleagirl@mcsupersport@RoamiBlu

    Yes you can use with a usb-drive, that's what I meant by "moving to a new computer", even though I understand that was unclear!

    I don't know how to sync your files to >play< from OneDrive, but SimsVIP has a tutorial. Don't know if it is any good, make backups 🙂

    https://simsvip.com/2017/05/10/tutorial-backing-sims-files-automatically/

    If you want to use OneDrive to move your files to another computer, or just to save them somewhere while you reinstall it etc, check this out:

    https://hostpapasupport.com/microsoft-office-365-how-to-copy-or-move-files-to-onedrive/

    As for OneDrive and the Sims 4, OneDrive can give problems, but only when the game starts syncing without you knowing (might happen after a game update), end it's generally not worse than that you have to move your savefiles etc to the new onedrive-folder, or than you close onedrive. You will only sync och user files, not the game files, and in sims that info is only needed for you being able to access your old stuff (saves, mods, library), not to run the game.