origin dual drives

[shaunphoto]

Hi,

 

As the title says I am trying to get origin games onto dual drives, does anyone know how to do this?

 

Thanks

[SpenceSouth]

Just change the stored location.  I actually have some games in Origin located on both my SSD and HDD.

[SMURG]

What Spence said, although I hear a lot of discontent from people who have lost games stored on drives other than C:\ because Origin is bad.

[shaunphoto]

Just change the stored location.  I actually have some games in Origin located on both my SSD and HDD.

Just by the simple cut and paste? do all the games boot up or do you have to copy them back?

 

Are you speaking of a RAID setup? or you want different games on different drives.

To have different games on different drives. For example Battlefield 3 on hdd and Battlefield 4 on ssd once out.

[shaunphoto]

Just go to your settings in origin and choose your install location on where you want games as you download them. 

I already have BF3 on ssd and want to have that on hdd, then ill obviously have BF4 installed on ssd

[shaunphoto]

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2230136

 

But then i still cant get games to boot from both ssd and hdd. Origin sucks ass but has the games I play most

[SpenceSouth]

When you install just specify a new different install location.  Or if you already have it installed you can try using Junctions to move it to a new folder. 

[jbr]

If you want to move a game that is already installed you can do that by manually creating the new folder

cut/paste the game folder over and then uninstalling the game, enter the new location in the Origin settings SETTINGS

and then reinstall, Origin SHOULD see the files and do a recheck and rebuilt the registry entries and create a new desktop shortcut.

 

I've done it with Battlefield 3 successfully..

 

Though, you shouldn't bother if you have no clue what your doing.

 

 

Installing games to a new location is as simple as changing the install location in the Origin SETTINGS

currently Origin does not have a system in place to create multiple install locations like Steam.

 

Steam took 9 years to add that option.

[Imabigmac]

Hopefully you don't have any trouble with battlelog plugins not working once bf3 is one the second drive.

[ayub]

i have these games on origin (BF3 ,sims3 ,crysis 2 ,dead space 3 ,dead space ,red alert 3 , burnout paradise , mirror edge , populous) . want to trade for steam games ..

[dusty594]

What Spence said, although I hear a lot of discontent from people who have lost games stored on drives other than C:\ because Origin is bad.

I've got my Origin games installed on F:\ and my Origin installation is on C:\. Absolutely no issues. 

 

 

I don't have any games stored on my C:\ drive, so I'm not sure my setup is the same as what you're looking to do shaunphoto.

[LogicalDrm]

What Spence said, although I hear a lot of discontent from people who have lost games stored on drives other than C:\ because Origin is bad.

 

Hearing from people that hate Origin anyway, I assume. I have BF3 and BF4 (beta was) on SSD which is C drive. Origin itselft has installed on D as well as all other games I have on it. No errors. Only thing is to remember to change install location before new installs as it doesn't popup to ask it like in Steam.

[jbr]

What Spence said, although I hear a lot of discontent from people who have lost games stored on drives other than C:\ because Origin is bad.

 

Likely people who didn't do it correctly and probably tried the cut/paste method for moving already installed games.

[SMURG]

Likely people who didn't do it correctly and probably tried the cut/paste method for moving already installed games.

Well some of them were trying to do it on an external drive like you can with Steam (since even if it fails to auto-detect you can manually key in game files under the settings), whilst others have reported losing games stored on a drive by drive basis (i.e. everything on X:/ periodically disappearing) despite originally installing them to that drive and never disconnecting it.

[jbr]

Well some of them were trying to do it on an external drive like you can with Steam (since even if it fails to auto-detect you can manually key in game files under the settings), whilst others have reported losing games stored on a drive by drive basis (i.e. everything on X:/ periodically disappearing) despite originally installing them to that drive and never disconnecting it.

 

Maybe an external drive is causing driver letters to switch?

 

They need to lock a driver letter to their external drive.

I haven't done it in a very long time but you can do that.

the letter is reserved for a specific drive regardless if it is plugged in or not.

[SMURG]

Maybe an external drive is causing driver letters to switch?

Possibly, I wasn't particularly active in the discussion and I've never used Origin - primarily out of no desire to run yet-another-client more than anything else. I just wanted to let the OP know that I've seen people have problems with it on Origin whereas Steam's method seems much more robust.

[jbr]

Possibly, I wasn't particularly active in the discussion and I've never used Origin - primarily out of no desire to run yet-another-client more than anything else. I just wanted to let the OP know that I've seen people have problems with it on Origin whereas Steam's method seems much more robust.

 

You can lock a drive letter to a hard drive, it's held on the drive itself so no matter where you install it the letter will be used, UNLESS it is already taken.

 

http://mintywhite.com/vista/assign-a-permanent-letter-to-a-usb-thumb-drive-2/

 

If you use external drives for installing games, or apps you should do this.

 

If you don't then the letter can change from simply swapping to another USB port.