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elejaydubu
2 years ago

Buying an external hard drive to play exspansion packs?

Hello I'm very late to this thread but I was wondering honestly I just want to plays sims 4 with the island living pack I miss mermaids my current PC is a Acer Aspire 5 laptop it has 4GB,DDR4,128GB I...
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Caerfinon
Seasoned Ace
2 years ago
@elejaydubu If you installed your game on an external drive device your limitation will be the speed of the drive and the USB transfer rate. The spec I looked at showed a USB 3.2 Gen 1 which maxes at 10 Gbps data transfer. This speed is impacted by the speed of your external hard drive. A SSD is preferable to a spinning disk as they have a much faster seek rate.

It will still have a bit of lag due to the external data and the 4GB memory on the PC.

If finances allow, a new PC might prove the better option.


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