Gorfias said:
I read about some convoluted way to handle this.
Should I attempt to do so, would my current C:\ installs still work as I add Origin games to D:\ ?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
It's not convoluted at all.
1. Open Origins
2. Click on the "Origins" Tab on the top left corner of the Origins window
The following steps may be named wrong, since my origin is in german and yours may be in another language. I will translate it to what it should be named in English, but you can never be sure.
3. Click on "Options", the sixth entry from the top down.
4. The main window of Origin will change into an options menu with 4 different tabs on the left side. Click on the last tab in that list, which should be named something like "Exta Options" or "Additional Options"
5. The entry on the top should now say something like "Downloaded Games" with the directory displayed were your games get installed by Origin. You can click on "change" next to the displayed directory to change the place your origin games will be, once they are installed. You can change this to whichever directory you want. Origin itself does not need to be installed on the same directory or harddrive.
6. You could be done now, but origin first downloads the installer of the game to a seperate directory, before installing the game to the place you specified in step 5. Should your harddrive not have enough spave left to handle the temporary storage of that installer, change the second entry to another harddrive, which specifies were origin will download temporary installers to.
I haven't tried it personally but if origin is smart it will automatically transfer the games from your original directory to the new one. If it's not smart it will most likely download them again in the new directory.
Just make a copy of the game files to someplace. If Origin attempts to download the files again, copy the game files manually to the new location. Origin should detect that the game is there and stop the download to let you play. Sadly, unlike steam, origin doesn't have a function to allow multiple install directories at once.