Can the game installed on a SD Card?

Fangirll wrote:hello. I have a question about the location The Sims 4 can be installed on. I dont have enough space on my laptop and i wanted to put the game on my sd card. however, when i put that in as a location. (ex. D:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4) but it stills says i dont have enough space on my hard drive, not even knowing that i put in my sd card as a location. what should i do? should attempt to clear space on my hard drive to download the game or do i have to give up?  help please. Thank you beforehand.

Fangirll wrote:just my luck, the alternate method doesn't work for windows 10. sighs. Thanks for your help anyway. maybe i'll just buy the game.. ^~^;

Carlos wrote:

Fangirll wrote:just my luck, the alternate method doesn't work for windows 10. sighs. Thanks for your help anyway. maybe i'll just buy the game.. ^~^;

You mean installing at first on C: and then moving the folder doesn't work ? Normally, that should work fine on any Windows system; I'm sorry to hear it doesn't work out for you. Have you tried freeing up enough space on C: ? Make sure to have more space than just the 8+ GB that are necessary for the TS4 base game.

In any way, I would wait with buying the base game. It's really unnecessarhsh

magic touch wrote:you can install the sims4 anywhere you want, (D:, E:, external HD or SD)
in case of external HD or SD, be sure the install path letter no change!  

keep in mind a main part of the install will be in system part on c:/users/your_user_name/docu,,,,

the C:/users/,, is need to keep stores about configurations setting and saved games files

if you know about registry, 
the install path is found in registry, in case you want to change  your external HD/SD letter path  
  

good luck

For example, a game that is installed on an external drive that is connected via USB may be slower in performance than a drive that is connected via a SATA-controller (typically referred to as an "internal drive"). Also, a HDD drive is a bit slower than an SSD drive. I guess for a game like Sims 4 it doesn't really matter that much, but you may run into possible issues with higher-end games. You get the idea.

magic touch wrote:all depend of the type use by an application

in this case (for the Sims game) the data need only for storage, it's not like an application who need realtime read/write data

when you start the game, all data read are moved in real memory and virtual memory, the game does not read anymore the storage place (SSD or External HD) only the start game is affected by the transfer speed of data

also about some SSD memory,
some SSD are very fast read/write and compared to internal Sata HD the difference is some miliseconds!

if i am using a music or paint program (like Cubase or photoshop) where data are re read several time by minutes/second, i do not use any SSd , 
but in application games like Sims the SSD storage is welcome against the place reserved on system disk

Very cool.    I did not know about this technical aspect of The Sims (4). But as a personal remark, I myself probably couldn't use an SSD "properly", due to me having a habit of shuffling around data very often. All of which creates (unnecessary) read/write-processing for the drive. The "good old" standard HDDs are still good enough for me.