Installing origin and games to D drive
Hi simmers! Hoping someone a bit techy can help me out! I want to install origin and all my sims4 games onto my D drive as my C drive is at 75% and reserved for other things. My D drive is EMPTY lo...
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I've done this.
If you're dealing with partitions of a single actual drive... none of this matters - moving files between partitions is just like trying to decide if you want to plug your right or left nostril next time you take a breath of air - you're not achieving anything. ;)
If you have multiple physical drives though, it can be very helpful to move things.
My game is installed on D which is an SSD drive connected on one of the two m.2 slots on my motherboard. The C drive is on the other .m2 and also an SSD.
SSD's have a limited number of times they can be written to before they stop working. If you try to run this out though any good quality drive is likely to be able to do enough write cycles to last somewhere between half a decade to a decade. Longer than most people need.
(I learned this when I got an SSD for my Tesla's security cameras; which means that drive is in constant write mode - so even a top quality SSD for that will only last a few short years, while a normal one can burn out in 6 months.)
Note that if you move the game to a non-SSD, gameplay will slow down a LOT. People playing on 'spin drives' will likewise see massive performance gains if they move to SSDs... You just have to remember than an SSD burns out, eventually - which is only an issue if you expect to not upgrade them for more than a 5-10 years or so...
What I don't see is a way to tell Sims 4 to write all of it's assorted gameplay files to somewhere other than My Documents...
So the real task it to move the My Documents folder off of the C drive...
This is actually more important than moving the game, as the files in My Documents are being written to with every gameplay.
This will impact a LOT more than just Sims 4 - it will move everything. But that's also why it's a good idea to do.
You can move your documents drive, and I do recommend it.
Your C drive is a drive you want to have a large amount of unused space on. Your operating system will run faster as a result. I forget if this issue is bigger in Windows or OSX, and with OSX if it was an issue it might be different on their new chips than it was when they were Intel.
Moving My Documents is a task though. This note on Microsoft's website demonstrates a very easy process but it dates to 2010... So I'd google the procedure specific to your version of Windows:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/move-the-my-documents-folder-to-another-drive/a41eaabb-2c5b-4502-85ba-fd49a007fd82
If you're dealing with partitions of a single actual drive... none of this matters - moving files between partitions is just like trying to decide if you want to plug your right or left nostril next time you take a breath of air - you're not achieving anything. ;)
If you have multiple physical drives though, it can be very helpful to move things.
My game is installed on D which is an SSD drive connected on one of the two m.2 slots on my motherboard. The C drive is on the other .m2 and also an SSD.
SSD's have a limited number of times they can be written to before they stop working. If you try to run this out though any good quality drive is likely to be able to do enough write cycles to last somewhere between half a decade to a decade. Longer than most people need.
(I learned this when I got an SSD for my Tesla's security cameras; which means that drive is in constant write mode - so even a top quality SSD for that will only last a few short years, while a normal one can burn out in 6 months.)
Note that if you move the game to a non-SSD, gameplay will slow down a LOT. People playing on 'spin drives' will likewise see massive performance gains if they move to SSDs... You just have to remember than an SSD burns out, eventually - which is only an issue if you expect to not upgrade them for more than a 5-10 years or so...
What I don't see is a way to tell Sims 4 to write all of it's assorted gameplay files to somewhere other than My Documents...
So the real task it to move the My Documents folder off of the C drive...
This is actually more important than moving the game, as the files in My Documents are being written to with every gameplay.
This will impact a LOT more than just Sims 4 - it will move everything. But that's also why it's a good idea to do.
You can move your documents drive, and I do recommend it.
Your C drive is a drive you want to have a large amount of unused space on. Your operating system will run faster as a result. I forget if this issue is bigger in Windows or OSX, and with OSX if it was an issue it might be different on their new chips than it was when they were Intel.
Moving My Documents is a task though. This note on Microsoft's website demonstrates a very easy process but it dates to 2010... So I'd google the procedure specific to your version of Windows:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/move-the-my-documents-folder-to-another-drive/a41eaabb-2c5b-4502-85ba-fd49a007fd82
