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Chloeboo24
11 years ago
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can you switch The Sims 4 game from one computer to another?

i bought the sims 4 collectors edition. i ordered it before it came out so i thought i would be able to play it on my laptop, but my laptop broke a few days before i had my sims 4. i will be getting a...
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  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    10 years ago

    Download the Origin client here: http://origin.com/download

    Login with the account you registered the game on and find the game in my games to download.

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KissKamisama
5 years ago

Hey did you ever figure it out?! I hope you were able to save and transfer everything’s

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puzzlezaddict
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5 years ago

@KissKamisama  You can in fact transfer your content from one computer to another.  The easiest thing is probably to zip together the Sims 4 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts, transfer it to the new computer, unzip it, and copy over the individual files you want to keep.  (Launch the game once on the new computer first, just to make sure it's working, and you'll get a new Sims 4 folder into which you can copy the files.)  Here's a list of everything you might want to transfer:

https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/user-files-explained/

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