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10 years ago
Joxer I had no issues reinstalling Sims 2, 3, and 4 on my upgraded pc - from Origin - my only issue was trying to install them from the disks that it claimed the code was used already - which were my codes. So I gave up trying to install from the disks and just reinstalled from Origin. Reinstalled smooth as silk onto all new everything. I am also running FX times 8 processor (8350) on an Asus mobo with a Asus Nvidia 980ti video card and right now just 8 gig of high speed gaming ram. I will be installing another 8 gigs eventually - lol. I have an SSD 500 gig main drive as well as a new 1 TB Seagate Barracuda slave drive. The only thing I transferred from my old drive was my save games and the whole Sims 3 store I had backed up on my desktop - I also have some blue ray disk backups of the Sims 3 store content as well - but transferred them through an external device that connects my old harddrive right to my new slave drive via the USB. I don't know what it is called but hubby is a pc tech and it is something he also uses to rescue content off of old drives for customers. It can also be used to transfer content from one drive to another - but I did not choose to move the games themselves like that - as I did it once before and had tons of issues with Sims 3 in particular and ended up having to uninstall/reinstall the whole thing anyway just last year. It is something to do with the anti-piracy protections built into Sims 3 in particular - not sure if they also exist in Sims 4 - but it was an issue in Sims 3. It was fine for a couple weeks - then I started getting issues. So to avoid the headache this go around I just installed everything proper. I just know back in December there was no issues reinstalling from disk - but now there are issues as Origin ended up making me reinstall the Sims 3 from my account - telling me my disk codes were already used. Which they technically were - as they were used by me - as my disks are original - all pre-order as the Sims 3 came out from day 1. But installing from Origin went fast. I installed all 21 Sims 3 disk in a little less than 3 hours. Sims 2 took only 12- 13 minutes and about the same for Sims 4. So I can't complain. The time we did the transfer (which like I said I ended up having to do the hardway eventually anyway) took the whole day for all the same installs.
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