Hello,
I have created the symlink and I can see the Electronic Arts folder in my drive and the alias my documents folder.
However, I am unable to launch the game. I can start the application and it appears in my dock but then disappears.
I have connected the drive again and now origin asks me to download the game again.
Origin will now let me play, I thought there may possibly be a delay between origin recognising the drive as it was initially coming up with download.
Do I have to go through origin to play? When the game was previously installed on my mac I just used to click on the application for it to run however it does not open if I try this when it is in the external drive.
I am aware that the load up can be longer through the drive, however my general gameplay seems to be lagging and my fan sounds very loud on my mac. I thought this may have resolved when using the external drive?
Sorry for asking so many questions, i really appreciate all the help you have given.
@devgriff98 wrote:
Origin will now let me play, I thought there may possibly be a delay between origin recognising the drive as it was initially coming up with download.
Yep, that is exactly right. It's always better to open a Finder window and let the OS load the files and folders on the drive before opening Origin, even if the drive is never unplugged.
Yes, you always need Origin to run the game. It will have opened before when you double clicked on the game app and then automatically minimised.
The only benefit of having the game on an external drive is storage space on your Mac. It's still using the same CPU and GPU to run the game. What are the connections on the external drive and your Mac? Are you using an adapter on either connection? Are you using an SSD/Flash drive or old style spinning HDD?
