I normally use Steam, but after purchasing the latest Humble Bundle I acquired several Origin games. My main hard drive is a 128GB SSD, but it's is almost full. I like to keep a few games I'm playing on there, and the rest installed on my 1TB secondary drive. In Steam it is simple and easy to select a game and chose which hard drive to install it to. Is there a way to do this on Origin?
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The only thing I've found so far is this:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/
Seems a little OTT for what should be a simple procedure.
Dec 21, 2016 Update: a lot of people are complaining this did not fix their problem. If this solution did not work for you, please visit this link and attempt the second set of.
3 Answers
Yes, it is possible.
Origin Won't Let Me Download Games
- Go to Origin advanced settings and setup the folder for your games.
- Download and install the games you want to install under that folder.
- Repeat the process for all hard drives you want to use.
It will not move the game you already installed on another drive. It will simply notify you that the games already installed will not be moved and you can continue.
Steam Mover (as its name suggests) was written to move Steam games. However, it works by simply copying all files from one location to another, then creating a junction point where the old files used to be. This means that all you need to do is locate the bulk of the game files you would like to move, and use Steam Mover to move them. This would work for Steam, Origin, installs from CDs, anything.
As a side note, it can be used to move applications, document folders, etc. It's best set up for moving folders between two parent folders, tho, much as you would if you had a games folder on your SSD, and one on your HDD.
This is how I did it for Mass Effect 3 and Need For Speed Most Wanted from D to J:. You can modify the commands to suit your needs.
Step 1:
Why Won't Origin Let Me Sign In
Move the game folders of the desired games you would like to migrate to another hard drive or volume.
Step 2:
After the folders and files themselves have been moved into the desired volume, open a console with Winkey+R - type cmd press enter and use mklink in the newely opened cmd console window to make a so called symbolik link between the old and new folder locations, like this:
Don't forget double quotes if you have spaces in the folder names and the /d switch.
This basically tells the Windows OS to use a symlink, and thus this 'trick' works application-wide.
Why Won't My Origin Games Open
You are done.
As a side note, it can be used to move applications, document folders, etc. It's best set up for moving folders between two parent folders, tho, much as you would if you had a games folder on your SSD, and one on your HDD.
This is how I did it for Mass Effect 3 and Need For Speed Most Wanted from D to J:. You can modify the commands to suit your needs.
Step 1:
Why Won't Origin Let Me Sign In
Move the game folders of the desired games you would like to migrate to another hard drive or volume.
Step 2:
After the folders and files themselves have been moved into the desired volume, open a console with Winkey+R - type cmd press enter and use mklink in the newely opened cmd console window to make a so called symbolik link between the old and new folder locations, like this:
Don't forget double quotes if you have spaces in the folder names and the /d switch.
This basically tells the Windows OS to use a symlink, and thus this 'trick' works application-wide.
Why Won't My Origin Games Open
You are done.
After this in the Origin UI the 'Play' button becomes again available for the desired games, eventhough, they now reside on another HDD/SSD volume.
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Title says it all, no matter what I have tried, I can't get any games to download. Game title blacks out and says 'Download in Queue' but if I try to go to the download queue I can't select that option from the View tab as that option is greyed out. I've tried:
Clearing Origin cache
uninstalling and reinstalling client
Tried a clean boot of my pc
Opening ports directly to the download server
Origin Won't Download My Game
If anyone out there has had a similar problem, please drop me a line here with any suggestions, as EA/Origin support is less than stellar and I don't have the patience to sitting on the phone/in chat with them for hours again.
Origin Wont Let Me Download Game For Windows 7
