Thinking of uninstalling all games and reinstalling

[sdhoey]

Since installing late night, and the newest patch, I have lost 2 families. Have too many issues and with my sims disappearing and game freezing. Have also thought of buying a terabit external harddrive and using it just for my sims games. Any ideas??

[Pam]

If your actual question is about using an external harddrive, please make the subject of this post reflect that.

[KJSinclair]

If you are talking about using an external hard drive to run the Sims then that can cause a few problems. This is because each USB port is assigned a drive letter, however they are not static, therefore if you run a SD card from a camera it could cause the drive letters to jumble up and to run programs on a computer you really need a static drive letter to be consistent. The other problem is the external drive will cause the game to run slower than usual, how much slower is totally dependant on the drive type.

I would suggest that you uninstall the game, run basic clean up and maintenance, disk clean up and a defrag, then reinstall. If problem persist then come back here, there is more that enough information to go around

[Pam]

Excellent advice, KJ.  Thank you.

[Sophie4563]

I have my sims games installed on an external hard drive. I don't have any problems except for accidentally unplugging the hard drive while I'm playing.