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DogeBaranikos's avatar
DogeBaranikos
9 years ago

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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Tegs8's avatar
Tegs8
8 years ago
Sorry I’m a few months late but I got sims 4 for Christmas and wanted to know if the external hard drive works. I haven’t installed it yet so I was wondering if you installed the game on to the external hard drive
  • Phantomlover1717's avatar
    Phantomlover1717
    Legend
    8 years ago

    I did, I had a Seagate external drive. I now moved to an internal disk, I haven't noticed a difference. 

    • xLEMN11's avatar
      xLEMN11
      7 years ago

      Okay so just to confirm because my laptop is really old and but my partners is new but I don’t want to take up there storage. I can run the game fully off the external not having any saved data on the laptop it’s self? 

      • crinrict's avatar
        crinrict
        Hero+
        7 years ago

        HI @xLEMN11 

        You can only move the game files to an external folder. The game also creates a user folder in documents but that can't be redirected. So your user data will always be in the hard drive of your partner.

        Also running the game from external drives has it's downsides, especially when you remove the drive and it potentially gets a new drive assigned.  

    • RubyWeeknd's avatar
      RubyWeeknd
      6 years ago

      I have a Seagate one I just purchased and I can’t figure it out. Do you mind giving me tips?

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