Sims 3 EPs on External Hard Drive?
PorcelainVal:
I'm planning on buying LN, soon...but after doing a routine check-up on my computer, I realized I probably don't have the space for it. I have an external drive with 1Tb of space which has been a good candidate for said project.
Question 1: If I decide to place LN on F:/My Book (instead of C:/Program Files/...), will I have to uninstall and relocate Sims 3, WA and AMB there, too? Is it possible to have LN on the F drive, by itself?
Question 2: How will this affect my CCs? I have all my mods in My Documents (AMB method). To be specific, I want to know how it might affect AwsomeMod. Sims 3 is f***ing useless without it.
:-\ Any help would be appreciated, as I'm not what one would call "computer savvy".
Tever:
For question 2, it shouldn't affect your CC at all. I've done it myself, and it used the folder in Documents as normal.
I'm not exactly sure about your first question. I would probably reinstall everything to the external harddrive just to limit things getting saved to weird places for weird reasons, but that's probably just paranoia on my part.
bloodredtoe:
I remember having no problem with some sims 2 expansions being on a different drive than the other, so not the issue probably. I'd be more worried about access time since as far as I know communication with external drive is slower than internal SATA. You could back-up your saves and test it (i.e. not touch what you already have there, install NL on the external drive), if it's unplayable then remove LN for now and invest in a larger internal drive maybe (unless you're using a laptop, then it's probably not an option).
PorcelainVal:
I might have to just be the test subject for this. Thankfully, I'm already backed up for the LN patch...I wante to help test AM. I've searched all over for an answer to my questions but all I get is explainations for how to install base game on external drives. Unfortunately I only have a lap top so getting internal upgrades aren't really an option. I'll report my findings for anyone else once I download LN.
Seqkat:
Quote from: PorcelainVal on 2010 October 31, 16:20:46
I might have to just be the test subject for this. Thankfully, I'm already backed up for the LN patch...I wante to help test AM. I've searched all over for an answer to my questions but all I get is explainations for how to install base game on external drives. Unfortunately I only have a lap top so getting internal upgrades aren't really an option. I'll report my findings for anyone else once I download LN.
I have had some experience with this and Sims 2, although I don't know if that counts as useful experience. Unfortunately with Sims 2 it didn't work unless the hard-drive was never turned off and never disconnected from the computer (and it seemed to work best if the computer was never turned off either!) Otherwise it kept effectively losing the expansion packs - claiming that they weren't installed so you were using the wrong disk, or getting otherwise confused and refusing to run the game. However, as I say, I don't know if this is comparable evidence.
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