Mass Effect 3 Moving the location of a modded mass effect 3

[bullobrien]

Hello. I have a very heavily modded version of mass effect 3. I just got a new computer and will be moving everything over but also upgrading from 32 bit to 64 bit windows 10 as part of the change. With the change I am concerned that Origins will loose track of where my install is and want me to reinstall it. I was wondering if anyone had recommendation of how I can keep that from happening. In other words how do i make sure Origins sees the install as real without the need to download and install.

 

thanks

 

 

[Purr4me]

Hello. I have a very heavily modded version of mass effect 3. I just got a new computer and will be moving everything over but also upgrading from 32 bit to 64 bit windows 10 as part of the change. With the change I am concerned that Origins will loose track of where my install is and want me to reinstall it. I was wondering if anyone had recommendation of how I can keep that from happening. In other words how do i make sure Origins sees the install as real without the need to download and install.

 

thanks

 

 

Hang tight I'll test a move here.

Correct, as there will be missing support files on the new system.

https://www.origin.com/en-us/download

install it out side of protected folders, preferred on an external drive.

copy your old games to the new location designated to store the games @ then relaunch Origin, it should now recognize the games you have.

 

users/username/apps/origin will need to be created so all registry keys line up.

Edited January 17, 2016 by Purr4me

[bullobrien]

thanks . I am not so worried about save games those are cloud synced. I don't want to loose are the modding I did. I was hoping to move it TO an internal hard drive from an external one. I think you are saying that I can install a new version of Origins then download the game and then copy over the files? is that what you meant?

[Purr4me]

Study the current layout, where Origin places things for it's distributions.

The test I conducted , I used crisis 3 as the targeted game.

any place currently that has the name ORIGIN, you rename it.

in the users/username/apps/local folder, any games produced by origin will have them listed there..AKA

http://s26.postimg.org/72n13vbex/Origin_locals.jpg

http://s26.postimg.org/741kb12mh/Origin_locals_2.jpg

http://s26.postimg.org/qzxjqkjnt/Origin_locals_3.jpg

 

all of these must be copied back to the new system in order to qualify the data, OR, Origin will force you to reinstall all the games.

It's not at all like steam games OR Cog games

Kitty

[bullobrien]

Thank you for the detail! Above and beyond. I appreciate it

 

 

[Purr4me]

Thank you for the detail! Above and beyond. I appreciate it

 

 

let me know how it goes, windows 10 may interfere too.

I watched 10 delete Entire programs it does not want on my PC

there is Always a work around, so those programs I needed to rename some data so the data would not be recognized and still function.

Your welcome.

 

Windows 7 kicks windows 10...puts it to shame. watch google news about Microsoft's plans and from that, make your plans.

protect your investments.

kitty

[Thandal]

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Windows 7 kicks windows 10...puts it to shame. watch google news about Microsoft's plans and from that, make your plans.

protect your investments.

kitty

 

 

Had the exact opposite experience on two different rigs. Win10 kicks Win7 right outta' da ring in a performance fight. Same for a security one. Only thing that's hard is when one has a non-standard config and expects that the Win7/8-to-Win10 upgrade process will recognize and accommodate the idiosyncrasies of every single possible arrangement.

 

Simple solution: Make your saves. Upgrade to Win10. Reinstall mods as needed. :thumbsup: