If you want to better manage your game library or simply free up more space on your drive, you can move your EA games to another drive. In this quick guide, I’ll walk you through the process. Let’s get started!
How do I move my EA App games to another drive?
Before moving your game folder to a different drive, create a copy of it just in case anything goes wrong.
Use the Registry Editor
To move your game to a different drive, first copy it to the target location and then change your Local Machine Install Dir keys to match your new location.
- Close the EA App
- Launch the Task Manager
- End the EA Background Service process
- Copy your game folder to your desired location
- Rename the original game folder to GameNameCopy
- Open the Registry Editor as an admin
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
- Use Ctrl+F to find your game
- Change the Install Dir key in the right-hand panel to your new location
- Change the Install Dir key of the following path to match your game’s new location:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\EA\YourGame
- Close the Registry Editor
- Start the EA App and launch your game
Change your game’s install location
Open the EA app, and change your game’s install location to where you want the game to go.
Close the EA App, and force-stop the EABackgroundService.exe in the Task Manager.
Move the game folder to your new install location.
Launch the EA App, and use the search bar to look up your game. It won’t show up in your library after moving it to a different drive.
After finding your game, hit the Download button. Rest assured, the app won’t download the game again. It will simply verify your game files.
When the progress bar completes, this indicates the EA App has successfully verified your game files and the game is playable.
Launch your game and check the results.