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jasmynmoussa
6 years ago
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Sims Taking ALL My Space

Hi Guys, 

I play the Sims 4 and I have Seasons, City Living, Cats & Dogs and Get Famous. My computer I use has 118gb, and 29gb left. The ONLY game installed on it is the Sims. I have lots of custom content and mods but I'm not sure how many gb it adds up to - I don't think it is a lot. How much gbs does the Sims take up, and WHY! And most importantly HOW can I reduce how many gbs it takes up on my computer, I want to download other games but I can't because the Sims takes up 89 gbs! Could I potentially put my custom content on a usb and plug it in when I want to play? Give me as many ideas possible, THANK YOU!!

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
    6 years ago

    @jasmynmoussa 

    SSD = Solid State Drive. The drive where everything is stored. It could have been a normal HDD but the size is pretty much a tell for an SSD commonly used in laptops not intended for gaming.

    The Sims 4 does not take up 89 GB but around 50GB with all packs. However you have other things on there such as Windows 10 and other programs you use. You looked at the total used and falsely assumed that only The Sims 4 took up space. That is not the case everything installed takes up space starting with Windows itself taking up around 16 GB. If you click on Start you can see a list of what else you have installed. So in short if you want other games you need a bigger drive at least if it is big games like The Sims 4.

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  • jpkarlsen's avatar
    jpkarlsen
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    6 years ago

    @jasmynmoussa 

    Your Surface pro only accurately met the minimum requirements for the game so as you started to add expansions it started to struggle. It is unlikely to be able to run newer expansions DU and later. Check if your Mac can't handle it better. It does have a larger SSD and it is new so ask in the mac group. They will ask for specs so supply that when you ask. There is a pinned posting with specifics.

  • mgod214's avatar
    mgod214
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    6 months ago

    Shoot I pay this on Xbox one x and myself and my wife have a game and it’s 68.3 GB and that’s without all the clothing packs so not sure how you figured around 50GB

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    puzzlezaddict
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    6 months ago

    mgod214  This thread is almost five years old, when there were many (many many) fewer packs for Sims 4 than there are now.  Additionally, the storage required for the game on PC/Mac is not necessarily equivalent to what you see on XBox, whether or not XBox allocates space for saves from that same budget.  The saves are not included with the size of the game itself on PC/Mac.

    Since this thread is so old, I'll lock it here.

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