The Sims and External Hard Drives

"xosummerloverxo;c-16764889" wrote:

"Goldmoldar;c-16764860" wrote:
I installed Sims 4 on an external drive as an test and it works for me but I left all files that is mandatory to be left on an local drive. However it may not work for all systems. You must have USB 3.0 and above, Thunderbolt 1.0 and above and you CPU and GPU as well as memory must be up to par. Data access speed is very essential for it to work and if your system main components do not complement each other it may not work too well. I tested Sims 4 on an I7 4790K 16 Ram 960 4 GB with USB 3.0. However it was an test and I had plenty of space on my locals I saw no need to keep Sims 4 on an external drive.

Yeah, I still have to do some research on the whole thing. I talked to tech support at EA and they said I should be good to do it but there's still the matter of the amount of lag I experience from either game because of my RAM. I want to be able to have both games (expansions, stuff packs, CC, etc.) installed at the same time so I can play whichever I'm in the mood for without having to choose but my 6GB of RAM just isn't cutting it for either game anymore. I mean, I'm basically the mayor of Lag City.

So now I have another dilemma of whether to buy a chip for my kind of older Asus laptop (it's at least 5 years old and has had to be brought back to life at least twice) or do I save up for a more "gamer" laptop that will take me probably more than a year to save up for. *sigh*

Thanks so much for the info though! :D