So I have a new computer with windows 10 and it has an ssd and a hdd in it. I am running windows on the ssd and also orian and the sims 2 game, (I think, have not even finished downloading yet) but I don't want the other stuff like saved games and downloads to go on the ssd. How or can I even make it go to the hdd? How as so much of that just automatically goes on the same drive.
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You would have to move your entire My Documents drive to the HDD.
I see you have a Sims 3 avatar moving My Documents to the HDD would mean that you would lose out of SSD speed for loading your CC and your saves. So keep that in mind.
I personally don't have Sims 2 on my SSD. Sims 2 doesn't really have anything where the increase speed of a SSD makes a huge impact. At least not to me. If you're constantly in and out of CAS or you constantly change outfits for your Sims and/or hair styles you may have a bigger impact of putting the game on your SSD. It's not like Sims 3 with the open world and the game constantly needing to keep track of and think of things. And the tech is much better than what the game was designed around as well.
I have My Documents folder on my SSD and I don't have issues with the game being installed on one drive but the save files and CC being on another.
But if 118 GB was what Capacity is saying it's probably a 125 GB drive and then you do want to move that My Documents folder to the HDD. I don't know how much space is on your SSD but if you could only keep 1 game/program whatever on the SSD I would give the following preference:
Origin has no need to be on the SSD so if space is an issue I would first move Origin off of the SSD.
It takes some more work to get Windows to recognize the moving of My Documents than just copying and pasting as everything that references it needs updating. It's a simple process to do this since Microsoft has realized that people may want to move that folder. Though they don't have any official instructions for it.
Here's a link that goes over the process: https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/
I chose this one due to it's simplicity. But let me know if you get to a step and can't find what you're looking for. I don't have a Windows 10 computer so be as descriptive as you can with what options you are seeing.