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9 years ago

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Moving the game to a different hard drive

If I uninstall my Sims 4 game and Origin from my computer and then reinstall it, but put it on a different hard drive (from Disk C to Disk D) will that count as a new download. As I heard you can hav...

crinrict
9 years ago
If you uninstall it, it doesn't count anymore.

Sharing your account is not allowed though and can get you in trouble, especially if your friends do something bad with your account. YOU will be responsible.

crinrict

Hero+

9 years ago

If you uninstall it, it doesn't count anymore.

Sharing your account is not allowed though and can get you in trouble, especially if your friends do something bad with your account. YOU will be responsible.

MastaHella

9 years ago

So if right now the game is on 5 computers and I uninstall it, it will then be on only 4 and I will be able to install it again?

Also we share one account just for the Sims and use our personal ones for other games, we should be fine.

crinrict
Hero+
9 years ago
Basically yes, but sharing is not allowed in any way.
- Carbonic
  Hero+
  9 years ago
  Ps.
  
  You don't have to redownload the content to move it to another harddrive. You can have games spread all over all the harddrives you want.
  
  How to move your game to another harddrive in Origin:
  
  Save your game backup from "Origin Games\GAME_NAME" somewhere else
  
  Uninstall your game in Origin
  
  Change game installation location in Origin's settings to your new location
  
  Start the game download in the new directory for 2 minutes
  
  Exit Origin
  
  Copy the backup over the to the new directory, overwriting all files
  
  Start Origin again
  
  Look at Origin verifying the files, setting up the changes in the registry and downloading the last couple of files
- MastaHella
  9 years ago
  I understand, thank you 🙂