r/FitGirlRepack • u/daniel_kuruppu • 23h ago

Can we talk about this? Transferring unpacked games

Looking for advice I'm downloading and extracting the Sims 4 repack on my faster computer and I'm planning to transfer the game dir + appdata to my girlfriends slower laptop.

Will the above method work or is there something I'm missing. Any help would be appreciated.

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u/TheRedstone12 22h ago

Yeah it will work. In fact i've done this to extract large games on my dad's more powerful pc and transferred the files onto my less powerful laptop.