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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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crinrict
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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.  

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REOFOX08
5 years ago

So if I buy a Seagate Expansion 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive for my asus laptop, will it work for the sims 4?

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    puzzlezaddict
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    5 years ago

    @REOFOX08  You could certainly install Sims 4 on an external hard drive.  How well it would work would still depend on your computer's internal components though: processor, graphics card, memory.  And playing from an external drive would be slower than playing from your internal drive, perhaps by a significant amount depending on how fast the internal drive is.

    If you'd like to get a general idea of how your computer might handle Sims 4, please list the internal components I mentioned, or even better, run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

    https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

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