You can install the game on an external drive but not your user data in the Sims 4 folder as the game will always look in Documents > Electronic Arts for the data.
Hi @Sofartsie,
Yes, you can do it but you have to uninstall and reinstall the game.
Please note that external hard drives are slower, so you can face some performance issues with the game installed there.
You can install the game on an external drive but not your user data in the Sims 4 folder as the game will always look in Documents > Electronic Arts for the data.
Sorry, two years later.
Doesn't that mean you can't run the game if it always looks for User Data somewhere else?
Hi, I read your page on how to transfer my mods to a USB with the symlink, but The Sims recently updated and I went from 16gb of space to less than 4gb. I'm not sure if this is just from the game's new update taking up a ton of space, but I'm trying to move my game to the USB. I went into Origin settings > installs and saves > game library location, but I can't seem to select my USB as the location, like there's no option to select it. Would you know what I'm doing wrong? Thank you so much!!!!
