Sims 4 is a BIG program!

I took a look at some of my game folders. Here are a few of my currently installed games. Some have more mods than others and/or use a mod organizer program. Lots of separate backup folders for everything too. Most of this sits on my second 2 TB drive.

• Sims 4--53.6 GB
  
• Skyrim Special Edition (Anniversary)--16.2 GB
  
• Fallout 4--35 GB
  
• Fallout New Vegas--14.6
  
• The Witcher 3--55.8
  
• Mass Effect 3--22.1 GB
  

I used to have a full disc problem, but then I manually deleted lots of long gone stuff that included huge non TS4 files, duplicates, downloads and videos etc, and my current situation is 311 GB free of 905 GB total. I'm still aware of performance issues if I forget being strict on what I add, so I try keeping the screenshots folder under control, and also make sure to delete zip files after installing CC etc. It's so easy to fill up space with random pieces unintentionally. A good clean up - back -up routine is needed even when having 311 GB free.

Programs are getting larger one must keep up with that by acquiring bigger drives. Also, it helps if you are done with a game take it off.

"WildIrishBanshee;c-18205292" wrote:
Ark: Survival Evolved - 240 GB. And that's just the free content...

Very huge game and the updates are huge adding to the size as well but luckily, I have huge hard drives to hold it all.

"simgirl1010;c-18201891" wrote:
Don't think I'll run into that problem. 512GB with 238GB free.

Have you considered moving the game to an external hard drive?

ETA: Or replace the hard drive if that's feasible?

That is what I suggest. When I first got a new laptop there was only room for base. So I got a 2 tb Seagate external. And I can put whatever I want on it. One thing I did t do when I first put everything on it was make sure that windows opened up to it. And after i did that it was working even better. I have all of my sims programs as well, like sims 4 studio, etc.

Wow you got a Seagate USB too. I just got mine that holds up to 1TB just for my Sims 4. ;)

No matter what computer you have, be it a laptop or desktop, you can always upgrade your hard drive to one with more space. If y'all like to keep a couple nice games downloaded all at one time, I'd suggest trying to upgrade for a SSD hard drive that's got 1 terabyte of space. There are hard drives with 2 terabytes too, but that's only really necessary if you have a whole collection of console-quality games all downloaded to your PC.

Currently, I'm in a position where I don't have enough space to keep both Sims 3 and Sims 4 downloaded at the same time. So for now I only have TS4 while I wait for an opportunity to get a tech upgrade. However, I do have enough space to have Sims 4, a few smaller games like Stardew Valley, and 4 MMORPGs. Currently my hard drive is only 600 gigabytes.