
Works with Steam, Origin, and DVD installation discs for Sims 3 or with Origin and installation discs for Sims 4.ĭisclaimer: This tutorial utilizes advanced knowledge of the Windows OS. It is assumed that Sims 3 and/or Sims 4 is being run from either Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1 or 10 – but will also work with XP, with slight modifications. It is advised to purge cached save game files and will touch upon this topic in the Sims Cache Cleaning Script section(s) of this guide.) (This can also be problematic for mechanical hard drives (HDD) as well, since they are slower to access large amounts of data.

While The Sims 3 can benefit from increased SSD loading times, file sizes for game saves can be absurdly large… especially when expansion packs, mods, and all kinds of other content are used to customize the game, reading and – especially writing saved game data will eventually degrade load times and overall speed performance of the drive itself. In addition, constantly writing too much data to an SSD can significantly shorten the drive's lifespan. SSD's speeds up OS and most application loading times, however, they can be very costly depending on its storage capacity. You will then have your old save games and creations etc on your new computer.Most modern computers have operating systems installed on solid-state drives, referred to as SSD's. Replace the saves, tray, custom music and screenshots folders that are in the new sims 4 folder with the same folders that are on your external drive. Your saves folder contains your save games and the tray folder contains your lots and households that you have uploaded to your library or have downloaded from the community gallery. Then after installing the sims 4 game onto the new computer, play the game once to generate a new sims 4 folder.

Make a copy of the '"saves " " tray" " "custom music" and " screenshots" folders from your old computer that is in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 folder and place it on an external drive.

Go to the pack sections, and you can then download/install them there. That will take you to a screen that shows you what game packs, stuff packs and eps you own. Then click the little "i" button that is next to the play button. You can log into origin using the same account that you used to register the game, then go to my games section, go to the sims 4 picture and download/install it there. Your sims 4 game is linked to your origin account. When you get your new computer, download and install the PC version of origin onto your computer.
