Sims 4 takes forever to copy files (Win 10)

Origin did it again yesterday:

It didn't load the library, so I restarted it. When it was back, the "Sims 4" icon had a small "Download" icon. I had the explorer open the whole time and the files ("Sims 4" folder,...) were still there before I restarted Origin, afterwards they were gone (I checked the trash, yes). 😬

@robert591

Yes, Origin updated the main game (multiple times already) but it did that after installing it and I'm pretty sure it actually installed from disc and didn't download it.

Sims 4 + EPs was already installed on my old PC and everything's already bound to my Origin account.

My PC (freshly built/set up):

- Win 10 (64bit)

- i9-9900k

- 32gb DDR4 RAM

- gpu isn't built in yet

- System NVMe: Evo 970

- Game NVMe: Evo 970 Plus

If anything is slow with this kind of hardware I'm honestly willing to blame the app for it!

I have 2 optical drives (1x DVD, 1xBR) but the copying speeds are bad for either - about the same like installing from SSD.

I'm now 99,9% sure that Origin is the problem because:

The last couple of times I installed the "Sims 4" base game I downloaded the latest version of Origin and only then installed the game. This time I uninstalled Origin (latest version) and installed the "Sims 4" base game from DVD, which also installed some old Origin version: Copying took about 15 minutes in total (instead of 4 hours)!

Afterwards Origin tried to update itself (169mb) but it failed every time because "UpdateTool.exe has stopped working" (tried starting it as admin and compatibility mode - no change), so I had to manually install the latest version of Origin on top of the old one (to not risk losing everything again).

But now copying the EPs takes 1.5 to 2 hours again (for 1.5-2.5gb)!