Some facts about my game + computer:
- I have the NRAAS mods installed that're meant to reduce lag.
- I don't have a lot of free space on my hard drive [~1GB] -- can't move.
- Have [mostly] CAS CC -- folder ~2GB.
- Computer has 16GB memory; manufactured 2016; NVIDIA GTX970M.
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How large is your hard drive to begin with and do you only have the one? The goal, if this is the drive also running Windows, should be 10-15% free space or if that can't be managed then at least 20 GB free; some seem to be able to get by with as little as 15 GB.
NRaas has moved!
Our new site is at http://nraas.net
I don't know if this is a joke or not, but if not... filling your hard drive to the brim is a BIG no-no in the computer world. Must be taken care of immediately.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74952-move-location-documents-folder-windows-10-a.html
If you have other reasons to keep Documents on D and only want to move the Electronic Arts folder, you could use a symbolic link instead. This guide was written with an external drive in mind, but it works equally well with an internal drive. Just be sure to get the punctuation exactly right, and of course substitute "Electronic Arts" for "The Sims 4" wherever it appears.
https://crinrict.com/blog/2020/02/moving-windows-documents-folder-to-external-drive-via-symbolic-link.html
If you happen to have Sims 4 installed on C though, it might be easier to move its program files to D instead of the user data. The game would load more slowly, but unlike with Sims 3, the difference would be relatively small. And if you have a lot of TS3 custom content, you might prefer to keep it on C so it loads faster. But any of these approaches should work, as long the end result is at least 20 GB free on C.
Some other ideas:
* If you happen to have a ton of files in your Screenshots or Recorded Videos folders (for either game), you could store those on a separate drive to free up some space.
* You can use Microsoft's Disk Cleanup tool to clear off other unnecessary files (like leftover installation files from Windows updates or leftover previous installations of Windows, if you're comfortable with that). Some of those folders can be up to 30+ GB large and are literally only sitting there in case you want to roll back to a previous version of Windows.
* Non-space related: if you play with all settings at max, bringing your Lot Detail down to 3 or 4 can help reduce lag even on very high-end PCs.
I have 2 laptops with SSD's that are 256GB in size, and it's enough trouble managing them. Anything smaller than that, a 128GB SSD for example, would drive me bonkers in no time.
The reason that very small C drives (SSD) on the order of 128 GB are combined with much larger D drives (HDD) as a common system configuration is that SSDs are much more expensive than HDDs. So the idea is to provide the home user with an SSD for Windows and a slower regular drive for just about everything else to lower the cost of the entire system.
NRaas has moved!
Our new site is at http://nraas.net
EDIT: Feel free to just point me to a URL for that if you'd prefer.
I couldn't really do a better job than the illustrated instructions that @puzzlezaddict linked to earlier on this thread.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/74952-move-location-documents-folder-windows-10-a.html
(that's for Win 10, it's not been that different for other versions of Windows along the way)
NRaas has moved!
Our new site is at http://nraas.net
NRaas has moved!
Our new site is at http://nraas.net
..Ah, oh no, seems as though I skipped step two.