Can you play sims 4 with an external hard drive?
I have one on the way, but it won't take a short time, so if possible I would cancel the order if it were not possible to play with an external hard drive. Thanks.
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You can, I played from an external drive for quite some time. I'm currently using a SSD disk, don't notice any difference.
I play Sims On External Hard Drive do I Need To Eject After I’m Done
@Prxncesschy You do need to eject the drive if you're planning on unplugging it. This is true for any external drive or USB stick: it can damage the drive to remove it without ejecting first. If you plan on leaving the drive plugged in though, you don't need to do anything else.
I was trying to play the sims with all my mods on an external hard drive but when it was updating it started to re download the sims on my computer and even though all my mods are on my external hard drive they won't load on the sims
@willcragg Your mods are in the Sims 4 user folder, which by default is in Documents\Electronic Arts. If you copy this folder to your external drive, the game will create a new folder in the usual location and use that rather than reading the folder you moved.
Are you saying Origin redownloaded the game's program files onto your internal drive, or that a new Sims 4 user folder was created in Documents\Electronic Arts? These are two separate issues with separate causes and workarounds.
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