EA App - How to Locate/Move Already Installed Games

alrighty so I'm just making a really quick video on how to find already existing game files in this new piece of launcher that EA use I don't know how the they made it worse in the old origin launcher but they have so I'm just showing you how to locate already existing games so you don't have to re-download them now you do have to have twice the game size available on whatever hard drive you're copying it to because it needs to allocate this space again um it's pretty simple but it's also really unintuitive and it just took me a while to figure out so anyway I've basically all you do is you copy it to wherever you want to install you don't partially download it and then copy the remaining files like I thought you would um so what I've done is I've got it on my main SSD I've already copied it off my USB so it's just here I've put it exactly where I want it installed that's all you've got to do just put it to wherever on your computer you want it installed you just need to make sure you've got twice the size so I've just got just enough so anyway so I've put it here come into EA play you can see at the moment I don't currently have it downloaded it wants me to download and what you do is come up to settings download and then you need to change this to exactly where it's already installed so in this case it's on my C drive so I go to Origin Games I don't think you really need this you can probably just put Battlefield 2042 in your main C drive but I've just put it under Origin Games so you set it like that and then you can go back here if we go to download it's going to tell me where do I want it now it's going to try and put it within the folder which you don't want so what you do again is just select only the folder itself should look like that that's better and then when you go next it's going to kind of go a little here where it's going to tell you it's preparing and calculating time it's not going to really do anything now I don't know how long exactly this is going to take but as long as you're seeing this preparing calculating time and you don't get any download rate then it's picking up the existing files that already exist so for me it went to about 40 and then it started installing root kind of slow to about 50 and then it just completed by itself so I'm going to leave that to do its thing um hopefully it comes up in a second so I can show you what it looks like but as long as you're seeing preparing calculating time then it's picking up the existing files it may do a partial download but it won't download the whole thing it'll just um install it based on what's already there so I'll come back when this is done all right so that's done apparently I left the rim and it finished um I guess you can see the time that it didn't take very long at all so um yeah so that's how you do it it's stupid but it does work so just remember you don't need to pre-download anything don't do that at all just copy it to wherever you want it installed make sure you have twice twice the file size on your hard drive and then just change the download Pathway to wherever it's already installed and then just probably do it again when you actually go to download it and then you won't have to around actually downloading it you can just pick up the existing files if you've got questions about it ask if the launcher changes again which I'm sure inevitably it will this probably won't work so yep bye

Channel: TTOBBA

Views: 100,982

Keywords: TTOBBA, EFT, escape from tarkov

Id: 5HCQYtuzqgk

Length: 3min 57sec (237 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 05 2023