Can you have two separate installations?

[leiagirl]

I both play the Sims alone and with friends. I'd love to get into modding and have a kinky client for when I'm not playing with friends, but when I've got friends over/people watching, I want to use a vanilla/unmodded client. Rather than uninstalling and reinstalling all mods potentially multiple times a day, is there a way to have two installations of The Sims 4 -- one vanilla, unmodded version, and one using WW etc.?

 

And if so, how do I do that? I'm assuming I'd need two different directories in both the Documents and Origin Games folders, but I'm not sure how to assign modded vs. unmodded.

[n3zum1]

1 hour ago, coolfreaky said:

do you have Mod Organiser 2 installed ( for other mod manager i do not know ) 

 

when you launch it ,you click on the little  "file" on the top left . you select change game . a window will pop out than you select " new" create a new instance , an other window pops out and you can name it original F O  or anything . than you choose your game . and M O  will open a new window like the first installation and you install what you want in this game .

when you want to go back you just select  " change game "  with the little  " file "  and choose your game .

dude... its a question about The Sims 4! lol

 

 

2 hours ago, leiagirl said:

I both play the Sims alone and with friends. I'd love to get into modding and have a kinky client for when I'm not playing with friends, but when I've got friends over/people watching, I want to use a vanilla/unmodded client. Rather than uninstalling and reinstalling all mods potentially multiple times a day, is there a way to have two installations of The Sims 4 -- one vanilla, unmodded version, and one using WW etc.?

 

And if so, how do I do that? I'm assuming I'd need two different directories in both the Documents and Origin Games folders, but I'm not sure how to assign modded vs. unmodded.

I have two installations of the sims in my computer... one in the windows drive and the other in another hd. did it because i think Sims 4 Studio requires the game to be in the same hd as windows to work. the only issue I can think of is that the two will share the same folder in "my documents" but I think that if you block the CC in options, you'll be fine.

[coolfreaky]

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oups sorry !!!!    ( i think i need to stop drinking or smoking or whatever !!! ) 

 

[leiagirl]

46 minutes ago, n3zum1 said:

I have two installations of the sims in my computer... one in the windows drive and the other in another hd. did it because i think Sims 4 Studio requires the game to be in the same hd as windows to work. the only issue I can think of is that the two will share the same folder in "my documents" but I think that if you block the CC in options, you'll be fine.

How do you block the CC in options? I want to have both aesthetic/body mods in one installation and clean/vanilla on the other, so I don't think just disabling script-mods or whatever the option is in the options menu would be enough. >_<

[fozep]

Yes, just rename your mods folder to in example aMods and create another folder and name it Mods. aMods is your modded folder, there you are pasting all mods, Mods is your unmodded folder, so just leave it empty. Whenever you want to play with/without mods, just change the desired folder name to Mods, and other to some random name.

 

You can even create small .bat file which will do it for you. To do it just create .txt file and paste the code into it:

 

Quote

@echo off
@chcp 852
IF EXIST "XXX\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\aMods" (
Rename "XXX\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods" bMods
Rename "XXXX\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\aMods" Mods
echo withoutMods
) ELSE  (
Rename "XXX\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\Mods" aMods
Rename "XXX\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\bMods" Mods
echo withMods
)
pause
exit

 

replace XXX with a path to your mods location, it should be like "C:\Users\UserName". Then change the extension from .txt to .bat

If you click on it, it will change mods folder and give you info which "version" you are using.

 

PS: it works for Windows, idk how to do it for Apple

PS2: chcp changes sign coding to be suitable for central european languages like Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak or Slovene. If you got message "A duplicate file name exists, or the file cannot be found.", try to remove that line or change it to suitable for your language. You can find number by googling "code page " + language.

 

If you have some more questions, just ask.

 

PS3: You can also disable mods in options, but to play WITH mods you need to enable them and then restart the game, as mods loads when you starting the game.

[leiagirl]

@fozep That works like a charm, thank you!

[Oops19]

There's also a symlink based solution available somewhere afaik. One could also move the mods to another drive this way.