supercala

EA's origin games installs into

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games

[C]
[program files (x86)]
[Origin Games]


which is fine, until you have a SSD and dont' want to waste space on it and you can use an internal 2tb for game storage (caching is a wonderful thing in 2012). Ok, so, I thought, how about making a folder shared as a network drive letter and then put it in a folder on [C]? Not a bad idea, done before with certain bugs with DVD playback of folders of movies I have shot and edited (MP does NOT like that, internal copy protection but MPC and VLC are ok with it).

So, I found that windows and windows 7 x64 in this case has symbolic links. with these you can have soft or hard links.

Install the Origin game base in c:\program files (x86)\Origin and close the program.
Create a folder in the target REAL drive that is huge and not super expensive such as

D:\program files (x86)\Origin Games\

mklink in windows via the command prompt can do this with:

• 1. make sure there is NO folder in C:\Program Files (x86)\ named "Origin Games"
  2. make sure you create the D: or whatever letter drive with:
  3. D:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\
  4. now run the following command prompt (as administrator)

Incorrect, notice no quotes in folder names with spaces The syntax of the command is incorrect.

Correct, spaced folder names enclosed in quotation marks Junction created for C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games <<===>> D:\Program File
s (x86)\Origin Games

C:\Windows\system32>

I had a partitioned 500gb sata spinner drive as 250|250 c|d. I cut the origin games out of c and pasted into the folder structure in d. then I did the dirlinker process and voila. I didn't have to download or reinstall BF3 and it doesnt kill my SSD space. perfect.

it did download an update. this is not a bug, sometimes an update pops its head up. "preparing" will be seen until it is dl'd and ready.

enjoy.