So I just bought an external SSD for my laptop (didn't want to mess with reinstalling the whole operating system and read/write speed should be the same) and I want to reinstall my games on that drive. My question is, can I just keep the TS3 folder in Documents or do I have to delete it and let the game generate a new one? I'm asking because if possible, I'd much prefer to avoid reinstalling all my store content.
Thanks in advance
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Either one should be possible, but the game should never really be installed on an external drive. This is not typically a path to success. While it's true that an SSD will have faster read/write times, those only affect startup/save and catalog building time in CAS and Build/Buy, it doesn't affect actual gameplay as most of the game is loaded into and runs from RAM as we play it.
Some games, like TS4 as it so happens, get no benefit from running off of an SSD.
The issue is not read/write disc speeds, it's that no matter how good that external connection is, it will never be as good as an internal drive can have and the game will tend to not react well to all of the resulting delays in data transfer. External drives are really meant for file storage and retrieval, you can certainly run stored videos that way since they tend to buffer a lot, but they are not meant for complicated program installs.
Is this the laptop that already had two internal drives? Seems to me that the internal D drive could have been replaced with an SSD without having to disturb the operating system, as that would be be installed on the C drive.
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Do you know if I'll have to reinstall all my store content again maybe? Or can I just copy paste the package files that were created when installing them?
The concern about SSDs having short lives due to overwrites was valid with very early models of the beasts, I don't think that's really an issue anymore.
No, you do not have to redownload store or any other content when switching the hard drive on which Documents and the TS3 user game folder reside. Store content that is already installed lives in the DCCache Folder plus InstalledWorlds where relevant, and Library for actual venues. Those folders should seamlessly copy over with everything else.
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Anyway leaving the folder in its place worked just the same so thanks!
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/893122/thread-for-new-members-to-post-their-sims-3-game-issues#latest
Did you ever have the game and its EPs installed on the default drive on this system? If so, and you have since uninstalled them, a Registry cleanup would be in order to get rid of Windows Registry entries left behind that indicate the game is still installed on C or wherever the default is. The free version of Piriform's CCleaner is a good tool to use if this step is required.
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