because they are a victim of their own success they used to be a great company hence the size of company they are today. however they have gotten to a sizew where anything launched at scale is inevitably buggy and basically next to useless. not too mention the amount they bow down to the current woke culture. anything remotely offensive that gets reported results in an insta ban. just adding to the snowflake problem in the world. Awful company that should be dissolved but as a result of their size they will just continue to get bigger. We need a revolution with this aswell as with governments around the world in general
They want you to experience a sense of pride and accomplishment in managing your library.... that, or someone penetrated them too deep during ear-sex and it royally buggered their brains.
Read up on Beta testing. Beta is very prone to being buggy and crashes. So, when they announced they were done "testing" and introduced their new crap app the rest of us, their testing wasn't over. We are now the guinea pigs in testing, testing their crap app. Their main app froze last week on me. I had to use task manager to shut it down which corrupted my registry. I had to spend $185 to get my laptop fixed. I lost over 2000 hrs. of all my save games, homes and sims I created and still can't use the game, unless I want to play from scratch...no thanks! Not only that the app is so buggy i'm ready to rip my hair out than continue trying to get it up and running again where I was at. And, no one on the forums responds to anything I post. I keep hearing "Class Action Lawsuit" running through my head....hmmmmm.
they cant get their games right nevermind the launchers to use them. everyone says pc is better etc and to an extent i agree, but on console you dont get any of this crap. they should make it all work properly across all platforms.
I'm still amazed that in the year 2023, steam, an app from 2003 is the ONLY game launcher that can natively change the location of your games, hassle free.
"It's stupid but it does work." Exactly how I feel. I miss Origin. This helped me find and re-synchronized my already installed Battlefront 2, so I appreciate it, cheers mate.
This saved me hours and hours of downloading. Thank you! I tested a modified version of these instructions to see if there is now a simpler way of doing this Here's what I found that works for me and saves a few steps by not having to change download locations, as long as you use the default settings there Copy game backup folder (Battlefield 2042) to default install location C:\Program Files\EA Games In the EA app, click download for that game Verify the location of the download path matches the path of your copied your game backup folder It should look like this... C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2042 (if your EA App download settings are at set at default you won't have to change anything) The "download" will begin and instead of actually download the files it will verify all the files
I didn't know it was possible to make a worse launcher app than Origin but EA has shattered my extremely low expectations. Thanks for the video. I was pretty sure I had done it right but I've been setting up a new PC and have so much to get done that I decided to look it up and possibly save myself more frustration and your video helped with that. 👍
Funnily enough the old launcher had the option to move the games from one drive to another. This new launcher had that option removed... one step forward, 10 steps backs. Somehow EA always manages to go backwards... Thanks for the info though, saved me at least 2-3 full days of downloading. My Internet download speeds are s**t.
As someone with garbage internet thank you! I just built a new PC and had no idea Origin is no longer existing so the old way to transfer wasn't working and it stressed me the hell out lmao.
Worked for me re-adding The Sims 4 and all its expansions from a new drive, thanks! My old drive died so I couldn't plan before at all. The EA app was on the "installing" phase for a while, but it definitely didn't reinstall the whole game and when I loaded it up all was as it was. Amazing. :)
Thank you! Easy to understand and not a ton of steps. All the other instructions I've been able to find have been either about the old Origin system or involving editing registry files
Yooo I was very scared I had to redownload my fifa. My country data plans are very expensive. thanks to you. I only downloaded 39 MB instead of the whole 49 GB you earned yourself a subscriber from Nigeria. Initially, I was used to the starting the partial download and then replacing the files, but that didn’t work thank you once again.
Dude, Thank you. I just got jedi survivor and it took to much time to download then when i went to play it this morning, it neededd a small update that was just barely too big for the drive and yeah i think you get the rest. I hope you win like something or maybe even a small thing like find $20 in your clothes. Pretty big goddamn help man thank you!
i had to like and subscribe purely because of the anger you have towards the EA launcher which i have noticed is absolutely universal. Great video btw, easy to follow and worked like a charm!
Good sh*t! Thanks for the video! I spend half an hour trying to figure out how to do this and was about to throw my PC out the window... Worked well and only had to download 2,7GB instead of 33GB for my game
Hello hello. I just moved all my games to another hard drive and I was freaking out because I thought it would detect all the games automatically since they are all already installed and all. After a LONG time of freaking out and trying everything I found Your video man...and I gotta say.... YOU ARE A LEGEND. It worked for all games on EA APP and similar method also works on Epic Games. Thank you so much and have a great day.
The wording has changed since a year ago but the method still works like a charm. I expect at some point EA app will just go stone age with how their upgrades actually downgrade.
Thank you for making this video, I about had a shit fit over this stupid fucking EA APP. How hard would it be to have a "relink game files" option like every other launcher on the planet. I swear The shit I use to talk about 10 years ago having too many game launchers and having to deal with the BS they bring is here, we are living in it. Anyway, thank you again this worked for me and saved so much time!
You are a legend. I have been trying to fix this issue all week. I tried everything. Origin and the EA App are two of the worst designed platforms ever. Really piss poor. Thank you mate!
now i see why people prefer steam for their games. despite the ea or ubisoft launcher from opening anyway for the game, steam is just more intuitive to have your games located.
For some reason it still downloads the game. At first I had the preparation step, so I thought it was working... but no, in the end it downloaded the game. I have crap internet so it's taking more than 10 hours and I don't know what I did wrong.
Damn was it really dat simple? I guess I tried this method and it never worked, but this time it worked. Thanks. They just should add an "add installed game" option to their app
Ey, if u read this... U are the best men, I have been searching and searching, and you provided me with the simple solution. I send you hugs from Argentina. Keep going!
This only works if you have enough free disk space to copy the game twice. Because Origin requires you have that full additional 60GB of disk space free to click "next" and start verifying the existing 60GB of game files you've already copied. So you need 120GB for a 60GB game. But the only reason I'm doing this is because I'm out of disk space lol. So I can't click that "next" button and let it verify the files, because the game is 90GB, I only have 30GB left, even though the game is ALREADY THERE and it doesn't actually need 90GB of space... ugh.
@@davidphiri9172 Temporarily, yes. During the checking/space allocation it will double in size, then once it checked and verified that the game actually is fully present in the new location, it should go back to normal size. Unless EA went all fucky-fucky in the brain on that as well.
As of July 2024 thank god this still works, I got a new NVME SSD and wanted to relocate some games, Xbox and Steam: No Problem, integrated with the launcher. EA just sucks with this, why not have a "relocate game" option integrated like every other launcher???
Thanks for this vid mate. You're right about not having to Partially Download then replace it like EPIC Launcher. Why do EA Have to do shit like this? What a load of bollocks lol
when i select to folder where all the files are aka a separate TF2 folder it makes a new titanfall 2 folder and installs in that folder instead of detecting the files
ea app is such shit, I dowloaded apex for the 6th time now (80GB every fuckin time) and it kept restarting. Thanks for helping me out, you deserve more reach!
I've just tried to "redownload" the game on the existing installed-gamepath and it also worked, without actually redownloading the game... This shitty EA-Launcher just says "downloading" while it acutally checks each single game-file without overwriting them... So just click download and select the existing game, it will be done in a few seconds ;)
I can't tell if it worked or not because my 18GB game was backed up for quite a long time. Now after I followed these instructions, it's still downloading 11GB, which could just be all the patches that were released during that time. XD
When you choose to browse, does it open the file explorer the same as in my video? If so, it shouldn't matter as long you can set the file location, otherwise, if that's not occurring what's happening when you click browse?
Origin was so much easier , I don’t understand ea how they downgrade every aspect of their games and launchers…
because they are a victim of their own success they used to be a great company hence the size of company they are today. however they have gotten to a sizew where anything launched at scale is inevitably buggy and basically next to useless. not too mention the amount they bow down to the current woke culture. anything remotely offensive that gets reported results in an insta ban. just adding to the snowflake problem in the world. Awful company that should be dissolved but as a result of their size they will just continue to get bigger. We need a revolution with this aswell as with governments around the world in general
They want you to experience a sense of pride and accomplishment in managing your library.... that, or someone penetrated them too deep during ear-sex and it royally buggered their brains.
Read up on Beta testing. Beta is very prone to being buggy and crashes. So, when they announced they were done "testing" and introduced their new crap app the rest of us, their testing wasn't over. We are now the guinea pigs in testing, testing their crap app. Their main app froze last week on me. I had to use task manager to shut it down which corrupted my registry. I had to spend $185 to get my laptop fixed. I lost over 2000 hrs. of all my save games, homes and sims I created and still can't use the game, unless I want to play from scratch...no thanks! Not only that the app is so buggy i'm ready to rip my hair out than continue trying to get it up and running again where I was at. And, no one on the forums responds to anything I post. I keep hearing "Class Action Lawsuit" running through my head....hmmmmm.
They do that because it costs less and gives us less freedoms
they cant get their games right nevermind the launchers to use them. everyone says pc is better etc and to an extent i agree, but on console you dont get any of this crap. they should make it all work properly across all platforms.
This is actually more helpful than EA support
when you said piece of shit launcher i immedietly liked the video
I'm still amazed that in the year 2023, steam, an app from 2003 is the ONLY game launcher that can natively change the location of your games, hassle free.
"It's stupid but it does work." Exactly how I feel. I miss Origin. This helped me find and re-synchronized my already installed Battlefront 2, so I appreciate it, cheers mate.
You all pay and download this
At this very moment im also relocating my battlefront 2 the same way 😅 (ill only do this stupid step for just this game 💘)
This saved me hours and hours of downloading. Thank you!
I tested a modified version of these instructions to see if there is now a simpler way of doing this
Here's what I found that works for me and saves a few steps by not having to change download locations, as long as you use the default settings there
Copy game backup folder (Battlefield 2042) to default install location
C:\Program Files\EA Games
In the EA app, click download for that game
Verify the location of the download path matches the path of your copied your game backup folder
It should look like this...
C:\Program Files\EA Games\Battlefield 2042
(if your EA App download settings are at set at default you won't have to change anything)
The "download" will begin and instead of actually download the files it will verify all the files
Or after this you could restart pc it will be back to normal. You dont even need the same disk storage
I didn't know it was possible to make a worse launcher app than Origin but EA has shattered my extremely low expectations.
Thanks for the video. I was pretty sure I had done it right but I've been setting up a new PC and have so much to get done that I decided to look it up and possibly save myself more frustration and your video helped with that. 👍
Funnily enough the old launcher had the option to move the games from one drive to another. This new launcher had that option removed... one step forward, 10 steps backs.
Somehow EA always manages to go backwards...
Thanks for the info though, saved me at least 2-3 full days of downloading. My Internet download speeds are s**t.
Thanks, Man, you are a lifesaver! Incredible that most modern-day launchers (except Steam) don't have a 'move' function for game install locations...
As someone with garbage internet thank you! I just built a new PC and had no idea Origin is no longer existing so the old way to transfer wasn't working and it stressed me the hell out lmao.
Worked for me re-adding The Sims 4 and all its expansions from a new drive, thanks! My old drive died so I couldn't plan before at all. The EA app was on the "installing" phase for a while, but it definitely didn't reinstall the whole game and when I loaded it up all was as it was. Amazing. :)
crazy how this exact situation happened to me a few days ago! small world!
Thanks man! My game runs like butter now! Having this installed on a HDD, let alone a 5,400RPM drive is an absolute nightmare.
Glad it helped!
Thank you! Easy to understand and not a ton of steps.
All the other instructions I've been able to find have been either about the old Origin system or involving editing registry files
Yooo I was very scared I had to redownload my fifa. My country data plans are very expensive. thanks to you. I only downloaded 39 MB instead of the whole 49 GB you earned yourself a subscriber from Nigeria. Initially, I was used to the starting the partial download and then replacing the files, but that didn’t work thank you once again.
Dude, Thank you. I just got jedi survivor and it took to much time to download then when i went to play it this morning, it neededd a small update that was just barely too big for the drive and yeah i think you get the rest. I hope you win like something or maybe even a small thing like find $20 in your clothes. Pretty big goddamn help man thank you!
Appreciate it, glad I could help.
Legend. May good fortunes ever be in your favor
Got the worst eplanations off other videos, this worked like a charm for me thanks dude.
Great video! I don't understand why these programs don't make this more intuitive but this video helps! Thanks.
i had to like and subscribe purely because of the anger you have towards the EA launcher which i have noticed is absolutely universal. Great video btw, easy to follow and worked like a charm!
Good sh*t! Thanks for the video!
I spend half an hour trying to figure out how to do this and was about to throw my PC out the window...
Worked well and only had to download 2,7GB instead of 33GB for my game
Hello hello. I just moved all my games to another hard drive and I was freaking out because I thought it would detect all the games automatically since they are all already installed and all. After a LONG time of freaking out and trying everything I found Your video man...and I gotta say.... YOU ARE A LEGEND. It worked for all games on EA APP and similar method also works on Epic Games. Thank you so much and have a great day.
The wording has changed since a year ago but the method still works like a charm. I expect at some point EA app will just go stone age with how their upgrades actually downgrade.
thank you, you were actually more helpfull than the whole EA company
Couldnt agree more. Origin made it so easy to do this exact thing. "locate game" thats all you need
Just got forced to migrate to the EA app and it fucked all my games up. Your tutorial helped allot mate. Appreciate the humor and math.
Thank you. I tried to do it the old way where you pause the download then copy over the backup.
Thanks bro, i speak in spanish so i watched some tutorials in spanish and all were wrong, the first in english worked, so ty again!
This worked perfectly to move BF3. Thanks a ton!
Thanks! Somehow its suddenly stoped seeing my BF2042 in launcher, and asked to install again! Thanks for the video!
absolutely Love the language. Legend,, Ohh nd the tip worked thanks.
worked like a charm! thank you so much! even tho my process was copy, uninstall and then your steps, it all worked smoothly
Thank you for making this video, I about had a shit fit over this stupid fucking EA APP. How hard would it be to have a "relink game files" option like every other launcher on the planet. I swear The shit I use to talk about 10 years ago having too many game launchers and having to deal with the BS they bring is here, we are living in it. Anyway, thank you again this worked for me and saved so much time!
thanks for the help bro, I really couldn't be bothered reinstalling star wars battlefront 2
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Applied this logic from old pc to new. it worked! hell yeah!
You are a legend. I have been trying to fix this issue all week. I tried everything. Origin and the EA App are two of the worst designed platforms ever. Really piss poor. Thank you mate!
You are a time saver!! Thank you for the video mate!
now i see why people prefer steam for their games. despite the ea or ubisoft launcher from opening anyway for the game, steam is just more intuitive to have your games located.
thank you this completely worked and its so simple
The absolute "i am fucking done with this godforsaken piece of shit"-ness of your voice, i love it. Absolute lifesaver!
Mate, this video is spot on! - saved me alot of time and spit on my monitor screen! cheers
For some reason it still downloads the game. At first I had the preparation step, so I thought it was working... but no, in the end it downloaded the game. I have crap internet so it's taking more than 10 hours and I don't know what I did wrong.
Damn was it really dat simple? I guess I tried this method and it never worked, but this time it worked. Thanks.
They just should add an "add installed game" option to their app
It didn't work at first, but right clicking the game and hitting 'repair' after cancelling the download, that seemed to do the trick just fine.
thanks man it's working i tried on apex legends, i only had to download 7GB instead of 70GB for my game
Thanks, it indeed worked
very good bro
The second he said piece of shit launcher, I know I'm in the right place for tutorials on how to move Apex
thank you mate, you’re a life saver!
Thanks man, saved me 7 hours.
Ey, if u read this... U are the best men, I have been searching and searching, and you provided me with the simple solution. I send you hugs from Argentina. Keep going!
thank you very much for this guide, it made my life much easier
This only works if you have enough free disk space to copy the game twice. Because Origin requires you have that full additional 60GB of disk space free to click "next" and start verifying the existing 60GB of game files you've already copied. So you need 120GB for a 60GB game. But the only reason I'm doing this is because I'm out of disk space lol. So I can't click that "next" button and let it verify the files, because the game is 90GB, I only have 30GB left, even though the game is ALREADY THERE and it doesn't actually need 90GB of space... ugh.
So does that me the game becomes twice the size now or what??
For example if it’s 50GB will it be now a 100GB in my disk space??
@@davidphiri9172 Temporarily, yes. During the checking/space allocation it will double in size, then once it checked and verified that the game actually is fully present in the new location, it should go back to normal size. Unless EA went all fucky-fucky in the brain on that as well.
I mean he literally stated that in the video lol
i did exactly what you did and it still download everytime i try to locate it...
For Bf 2042 worked like magic!!!
As of July 2024 thank god this still works, I got a new NVME SSD and wanted to relocate some games, Xbox and Steam: No Problem, integrated with the launcher. EA just sucks with this, why not have a "relocate game" option integrated like every other launcher???
Thank you so much, you saved the night!
Trying it out right now but sadly does not work, just starts downloading it as usual ....
Sorry it's not working for you
Thanks for this vid mate. You're right about not having to Partially Download then replace it like EPIC Launcher.
Why do EA Have to do shit like this? What a load of bollocks lol
고맙습니다. 드디어 해결했네요. Im korean. SOOOOOOOO THANKS !!
Doesnt work with me... still downloads completely
when i select to folder where all the files are aka a separate TF2 folder it makes a new titanfall 2 folder and installs in that folder instead of detecting the files
G Thanks man :) Easy and to the point
bro tysm i got so scared that i couldnt play fifa bc i had no space but u saved me ty bro
ea app is such shit, I dowloaded apex for the 6th time now (80GB every fuckin time) and it kept restarting. Thanks for helping me out, you deserve more reach!
Nice dude thanks! Same thing with Epic games for those who care, but it is faster and says "initializing"
When I had Origin I thought no app can be worst, then EA app come.
I've just tried to "redownload" the game on the existing installed-gamepath and it also worked, without actually redownloading the game... This shitty EA-Launcher just says "downloading" while it acutally checks each single game-file without overwriting them... So just click download and select the existing game, it will be done in a few seconds ;)
thx bro imma try
nah i dont think ur method work at least for bf2042 not
@@W_Rizzer667 interesting… It worked for all my games, but I don’t have bf2042
so, so helpful!! THANK YOUUUU
Thanks for the video, very helpful.
thanks friend
I can't tell if it worked or not because my 18GB game was backed up for quite a long time. Now after I followed these instructions, it's still downloading 11GB, which could just be all the patches that were released during that time. XD
Thank you very much ! Just did it with SW Survivor and worked perfectly
at 1:42 , by my install location, it only says "browse". it doesn't say "change". any idea on how to fix it?
When you choose to browse, does it open the file explorer the same as in my video? If so, it shouldn't matter as long you can set the file location, otherwise, if that's not occurring what's happening when you click browse?
Tuve que ver un tutorial en ingles para poder resolver este problema y no tener que descargar juegos de casi 100 gigas jaja Thanks bro!
mine is still downloading i dont understand why?? i just did what u did tho...
Thanks man🤜🤛
Couldn't help giggling at your absolute contempt for EA. ^^; So sorry for the hassle, my dude - thanks for saving us from it.
chef's kiss! Thank you very much!
origin was so smoothy damn this company but man thank u so much for saving us great content
Thanks for the tip. This worked with 2 of the 3 games I tried.
Spot on intro comments.
you should be the community manager, anyway thanks!
Thanks a lot for this information about EA useless app
🎉
Your voice is very relaxing.
no one saw whats on his usb???????
Verry thanks you
it shows the download rate i don't know why !!! can you help me ?
Still Works! Great Vid
taskbar on the left looks great
Thank you, you are literally a god my good sir
i love how he calmly say shit 😂
its crazy how this "modern" game manager doesn't even have a locate game files option.
Works like a charm , thanks a lot ♥
Thank you so much bro you’re a savior
Thanks so much that was really so helpful ❤❤
I wanna thank you very good person, today you saved my life.
My game is Gone 36 Hours Dowenload Again :(
absolute lifesaver
Hey still works, or not? I want to move jedi survivor to my ssd ....