Click ‘ Install’ if possible, if not click ‘Download', and it will detect your current files and possibly download an update or patch you may have been missing. In your library all of the games you copied should either have ‘ Install’ or ‘ Download’ next to them.
Now, in Origin, head to the install directory tab as detailed earlier, and change the Origin install location to the new Origin Games folder you copied all of your games to. Don’t worry, this won’t delete the files we’ve just copies, only the files in the old install directory, of which there should be none. Once this has been done you then to head to Add/Remove Programs and delete all of the Origin games. Then you need to simply copy (or cut) all of the games from your current Origin Games installation folder to the new one. First things first you’re going to need to create a folder call “ Origin Games” in your desired install location. If you get a new drive and want to move all your previously installed Origin games to a new location there’s a few more hoops to jump through.
Copying Origin Games To A New Storage Drive Please select a different directory." This is because you cannot install Origin games direct to your Program Files directory, it must be within a folder. Clicking this you can choose an alternate location, or even an alternate drive, but you will sometimes get an error message saying " The game installation directory is invalid. If you click on the ‘ Advanced’ tab this will bring you to the section where you can choose the directory where your games can be installed. Toward the bottom of the window is an option labeled File download location, which displays Safari's current file destination. Alternatively, press Command +, (comma) on the keyboard. In the top menu bar, select Safari > Preferences. This will bring you to your main program settings for Origin. Accessing the Preferences menu for Safari allows you to change the file download location. From the drop-down menu that appears, select ‘ Application settings’. If you want to change this you need to load up your Origin client and select ‘ Origin’ from the bar at the top. Downloading your games again could take weeks and weeks depending upon your internet connection, and EA certainly don't go out of their way to make it an easy process.īy default any games you download via EA’s Origin are automatically installed in the following location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\. There's also the whole other headache of moving your Origin library across to another drive. Features we take for granted can be a different matter on Origin, even with something as simple as altering where your Origin games are installed to. While Origin has grown in stature over the years, there’s no denying it’s not as powerful a tool and client as Valve’s Steam.