How Can I Download My Old Sims 4 Game to My Laptop Again

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The Sims 4 is the fourth installment of the Sims serial. The Sims is a simulation game that lets y'all create families and command your Sims' lives. Purchasing and installing the Sims four can be washed through the Origin application. Once the game is installed, playing The Sims 4 is as easy as it is fun. Create new Sims, build homes, and collaborate with your customs.

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   Download Origin. Y'all can purchase The Sims 4 right from your Mac or PC computer through Origin. The all-time style to become The Sims 4 is to download Origin to your calculator. Navigate to www.origin.com in your spider web browser. In the upper right-hand corner of the navigation bar, you will see an selection to Download Origin. Click the download button.

   • Once on the download page, y'all will encounter a yellow button that says "Download Origin for…". Depending on your calculator, it will say "Mac" or "PC". ^[1]
   • On PC click the download button and click to save the Origin Setup file. In one case it'south downloaded, look for the Origin icon on your desktop and double-click. This will launch the installer, follow the instructions to install Origin.
   • On Mac, Click the download button. The Origin.dmg file volition begin to download to your Downloads folder. Once the download is complete, locate the Origin.dmg file and click to open up information technology. Elevate the Origin icon into your Applications binder.

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   Create an Origin account if you don't have one. Once you starting time upward Origin you lot volition see a box to login into your Origin account or create a new one. If you lot don't already accept an account y'all can apace create 1 by clicking the Create an account button. ^[2]

   • Fill in your engagement of birth and country, then click "proceed".
   • Next, you volition have to fill in the required data like email accost, username, and password. Once you take completed the form, click Create Account.

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   Purchase and download The Sims iv. Once y'all login to your Origin client on your figurer yous can brainstorm to browse and purchase games, such equally The Sims 4. Search for The Sims iv in the search bar toward the top of the screen.

   • You lot may see several Sims 4 options. The Sims 4 has several expansion packs that you tin can download separately. Make sure that you download either The Sims 4 or The Sims 4 Palatial Edition. The Deluxe Edition adds extra content to your game like wearable and items.
   • Click Add to Cart. Once you've added the game to your cart, you volition encounter a "1" in your cart icon at the height right of the navigation bar, next to the search bar. Click your cart icon.
   • Click Checkout to proceed to checkout.
   • Follow the steps and fill out your payment methods. One time you've filled out all the information yous can complete your club. Your game will begin to download.
   • During the installation process you must have an internet connection. When y'all are playing the game, no internet connection is needed.

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   Open up The Sims 4. Once the game has finished downloading, you tin click the My Games tab at the top of your Origin awarding. This will bring you lot to a folio with all your downloaded games.

   • Click on The Sims 4 icon and you'll see a popup that has the option to Play. Click Play and your game volition launch.
   • It may take anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes for The Sims iv application to launch, so be patient.
   • Your game will begin to load. If this is the first time opening the game, it may take several minutes while everything loads.

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   Start a new family. Once yous've launched the game, you can start a new family and begin your Sims iv journeying. Click the New World push in the top left of the screen to start a new family.

   • Clicking the New World button will bring you to Create-A-Sim, where you can begin building your new Sim family unit.

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   Create a new Sim. Create-A-Sim has been revamped completely in the Sims four. You now accept more command over your Sim's physique and personality. Instead of the sliders present in the Sims three, now your sims' appearances tin can be controlled and adjusted with your mouse. There are besides options for Pre-made faces and trunk types. Yous can create i Sim or many. Upon entering the Create-A-Sim part of the game, you'll come across a randomly generated Sim which y'all can make alter to your ain preferences. ^[3]

   • In the upper left portion of your screen y'all'll run into "Hullo, My Proper noun Is…" Click this area to name your Sim.
   • Below y'all'll see a panel for gender, age, walking style and voice. You lot can brand your Sim male or female, a toddler, child, teen, immature adult, developed, and elder.
   • Beneath the age and gender console y'all'll see several hexagons, the number varies based on age. These are areas where you lot can add personality traits to your Sim. You can give each Sim a prepare of inspirations like beloved or wealth, and characteristics to go along. Characteristics requite your Sims a chip of personality making each one unique. Adults can take a maximum of iii traits, along with an extra that comes with an aspiration, teens can accept 2 traits, and children can take a single trait.
   • Click on different parts of your Sim's body to edit how your Sim looks. The Sims 4 is total of both preset options and the power to adjust small details like how far autonomously your Sim'southward eyes are, or how much muscle tone your Sim has.
   • You can give your Sim unlike hairstyles and clothes for different occasions. Play with presets or build your Sim from scratch.
   • Add together more Sims to your family unit by clicking the Add a Sim option in the lower left-paw corner of your screen. One time you've made your Sims to your satisfaction, click the checkmark icon in the lower right portion of your screen. You will and so have the option to save your family and play.
   • You can choose to add new Sims to your family with a new genetics characteristic. This will requite you a Sim that looks like one you lot previously created. You tin still brand adjustments to how this Sim looks.

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   Pick a neighborhood. You can now identify your Sims into a neighborhood. You have three neighborhood options for your Sims. You can live in Willow Creek, Oasis Springs, and Newcrest. If you lot add more than expansion packs, you will see more than neighborhoods.Click ane of the neighborhood circles to be taken to that neighborhood.

   • In one case in a neighborhood, you have the option to move into a house or buy a vacant lot. Each family starts with 20,000-34,000 simoleons depending on how big your family unit is.
   • If y'all choose to buy a home y'all tin can immediately start playing in a furnished home. Beware if you purchase these, because the furniture is not very good, and sometimes there is just not enough of information technology.
   • You also take the option to purchase a vacant lot and begin building your ain home.

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   Build your dwelling house. In one case your Sims are at your new lot, you tin can edit the home you've purchased, or build a new i from scratch. Enter Build Mode by clicking the tool icon in the top right corner of your screen on your control panel. ^[4]

   • The Build Mode is identified past the hammer and wrench icon on the left of your toolbar.
   • Since you don't have a lot of coin right now to build your home, you can utilize a cheat code to get some extra money. Enter Ctrl + Shift + C to enable the crook bar. Type in "motherlode" into the bar to get $l,000. ^[v]
   • In one case yous enter Build Mode you lot'll run into plenty of options for building your perfect home. On the bottom of your screen is a large toolbar that has a house to the left and a panel with several options to the right. Clicking parts of the house volition bring up items to build based on what you click. For instance, if you click on the wall of the house, you'll get several options for building walls. Clicking on the living room icon volition bring up a list of pre-made rooms sorted past room type. You can either click to drag a pre-made room onto your lot, or pick individual items.
   • If information technology's your commencement time building, a handy tutorial volition pop up walking you through the steps.
   • You can too rotate and expand rooms by clicking on a room with your arrow. You will and so have the option to drag walls and rotate entire rooms.
   • Pressing ESC on your keyboard will deselect whichever tool you were previously using. This allows you to use your pointer again without accidentally building anything.
   • You can also take individual elements from styled rooms if you don't want to add the whole room to your business firm.
   • The Sims 4 besides has a handy eyedropper tool which lets y'all click on an existing detail and re-create information technology to some other location.
   • If you wish for more pre-fabricated houses or sims, yous can use the Gallery. This is a drove of sims, rooms, and buildings that other Sims players have created, which you can download within the game. The gallery can exist opened at whatever time during the game by pressing f4 on your keyboard.

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   Become a experience for your Sims. In one case you've placed your Sims in a home, you can click the play icon to let your Sims roam around. You will see minor icons on the lesser of your screen which requite you information near your Sim.

   • Yous will also a minor square box with your Sim's faces in information technology. Clicking on 1 of these boxes will let you switch command between your Sims.
   • When on a sim, you lot will see a small-scale epitome of your Sim in the lower left-paw corner of your screen. Adjacent to information technology will be your Sim's mood. Above your Sim are idea bubbles. These bubbling will tell you what your Sim wants to accomplish. You can engage in activities with other Sims and objects to accomplish these wants for points, which yous can spend on rewards. If you want to save these for later, hover your mouse over them and click the trivial pin.
   • On the bottom right of your command panel you will see vii icons. You lot tin click on each icon to pull up unlike information and statistics about your Sim. The icon to the left will accept your Sim's overall aspirations. Completing tasks will help you to accomplish your Sim's ultimate goals. Other icons give yous data about your Sim's work or school schedule, relationships, mood, etc.

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   Talk and interact with other Sims. To collaborate with another Sim, click on the Sim y'all want to engage with. You lot volition meet several bubbling pop upwardly. Clicking on these bubbles will requite your Sim a task to consummate.

   • Some bubbles atomic number 82 to more options. You will accept options to be friendly, hateful, mischievous, and romantic.
   • Different interactions with other Sims tin affect your Sim's emotions. Emotions in the Sims iv include confident, bored, happy, energized, flirty, and many more. Emotions can influence the mode that your Sim interacts with other Sims.
   • You can also take action to increase or decrease a Sim's emotion. For example, you can stab a voodoo doll which resembles another Sim to stop your Sim from being aroused. Or, you can take a thoughtful shower to make your Sim inspired.
   • Sims now tin can multi-task in The Sims four. This allows Sims to accept grouping conversations and too prevents the abrasive situation of your Sim leaving a half-eaten meal on the floor to socialize with some other Sim.

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   Explore your Sim'southward career opportunities and the globe. The options carte on the cell telephone, located side by side to your Sim's small face icon, includes options for finding a job and traveling. Your Sim will need money, known equally Simoleans, to purchase anything.

   • To go more coin, you can get your Sim a job by calling job employers on your Sim'southward phone or by using your Sims' computer and searching for a task. Unless yous get the "Get to Work" expansion, Jobs are unfortunately not playable. This means that yous will fast forward time until the terminate of your shift unless you take more ane controllable Sim.
   • Alternatively, yous can make coin through hobbies and skills, such as selling paintings or writing books.
   • You lot can also zoom out on your map to travel to other locations and observe more activities and Sims. Zoom out until you lot see the magnifying glass. Clicking information technology volition let you travel to parks, bars, and the gym where y'all can see new Sims.

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• Question

  I was playing in a household with an adult and a child. The developed defenseless burn down, and I tin can't practise anything. If the developed dies, information technology will exist game over and the child is nowhere. What can I do?

  

  If yous saved the household earlier the fire to your library, you tin can start a new game by clicking the person icon with the plus. Import your one-time household from the fire.

• Question

  How many Sims tin be in i household?

  

  Eight maximum. If yous take the pets expansion, each pet counts every bit one Sim.

• Question

  Tin I play The Sims iv without an Internet connection?

  

  Yep, you can. However, to download and update The Sims 4, y'all need a connection.

• Question

  How exercise I become money?

  

  Depending on the amount of Sims in your family unit, y'all'll accept somewhere from 20,000 to 34,000 Simoleons, the currency in the game. To proceeds coin, y'all take several options, which include having your Sims go jobs, buying an easel and having your Sim(s) create artwork to sell, and inbound a cheat code.

• Question

  Is there a pets expansion pack?

  

  Yes, there is.

• Question

  Practice I need to do the origin thing if I take bought The Sims four on deejay?

  

  Audrey Lopez

  Community Answer

  Yep you lot do, I got it on a deejay, put it in the laptop, and it asks for the origin thing.

• Question

  Practice you demand an expansion pack for toddlers?

  

  No. You may but need to update the game. Then information technology will become from baby to toddler to child

• Question

  Are there whatsoever sites where The Sims iv tin can be downloaded for free?

  

  Yes, but I would not recommend it. Y'all will not take access to online features similar the gallery and the pirated re-create volition probable be out of date and may even contain a virus.

• Question

  When and how exercise I use the points I become from the little tasks that are based on my Sims' moods and traits?

  

  Go the the bottom and a little to the correct. At that place, yous'll encounter the icon of your sim's aspiration. Click on that, and it'll open up a tab. On the top right of the tab, at that place will be a footling sign of a gift box. Click on it, and information technology'll open some other tab filled with a lot of beneficial items for your sim. Hover over them to run into what they exercise. Examples include "Gym Rat." which allows your Sim not to sweat during exercise permanently; "Steel Bladder," which slows your Sim'due south bladder need'due south decrease permanently; "Potion of Youth," which volition reset your Sim at its electric current age, etc.

• Question

  Do I have to pay real coin to get the app? How much does it cost?

  

  Yes. On Origin, the standard edition is $60. You may be able to find a better deal on sale in a store or from a reputable online merchant.

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• There are many crook codes to enhance the game. The most common one is "testingcheats", which allows you lot to hold the shift primal while clicking on a Sim or object to enable a cheats menu to pop upwards.

• Once you've created your Sim, you can't edit your Sim's features unless you utilise the cheat "cas.fulleditmode".

• If you're only starting out, it'due south best to but create one or 2 Sims. Playing with as well many Sims can brand it difficult to accomplish goals and keep your Sims happy.

• Sims can now die from emotion. Avert getting your sim enraged, mortified, embarrassed, or hysterical, and don't let them get too tired, either. Elder Sims can too die from exhaustion.

• If you are running The Sims four on a laptop, enable Laptop Way in the settings to lower the graphics and ensure that the game runs smoothly. Nevertheless, some custom content does non work on Laptop Way, and so read the clarification before you download.

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• The Sims 4
• A computer which meets minimum requirements to play The Sims four. ^[6]

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1. Download Origin.
ii. Create an account.
iii. Buy and download Sims 4.
4. Click My Games.
5. Click The Sims 4 icon.
vi. Click Play.

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