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Anonymous
11 years ago

Re: How long does the sims 4 take to download??

Hello,

The main portion of the download is through Origin rather than from the disc, and the file needing to be downloaded is about 8GB. The amount of time it takes is dependent on the bandwidth or the download speed from your internet provider. This is either measured in Mbps or MB/s, and can be found out from your internet provider or using a website such as speedtest.net.

For example, 16Mbps speed would mean the file takes about 1 hour - 2 hours to download. 8Mbps speed would take about 2 - 3 hours to download.

I hope this helps and keep simming,

Cody

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Hi Cody I started downloading the sims 4 last night at about 8 and at the moment it is still on 52% downloaded can u tell me if there is something wrong with my Internet or maybe my mac please x
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    There are many factors which can affect download speeds. The speed of your connection, the quality of your connection, how busy EA servers are at the time, how many other customers of your ISP are using the internet at that time, Whether you use a router or not, what other people in your house are or are not doing online at the time, what you are doing online besides downloading the game and, what is going on with every hop your connection takes form your computer to EA's servers - there can be as many as 30 hops.

  • 120405070924's avatar
    120405070924
    9 years ago
    I have with out success been trying for 4 days. I once loved this game. I am so disappointed. Walmart would not refund it due to copyright infringements. I will probably not buy anymore of the Sims or expansion packs. Unless it went back to disks. So DISAPPOINTED
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Is it normal that origin downloads over and over
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    It’s actually 12GB ado it will take more then 4 hours
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    It will take 4 months 25 days 1 hour 39 minutes and 11 seconds..
  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    Hero (Retired)
    6 years ago

    You can do the calculation based on my previous response.

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