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    Angry Battlefield 3 and Origin! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    So i buy BF3 legit and it is a nightmare to install due to EA's poor attempt of buggy rubbish software Origin!
    Rant over


    Can anyone please help me with changing the install Dir as Origin keeps wanting to install BF3 to my C Drive which is my SSD. I am wanting to change the install to D:\all games but every time i try to change the Dir in Origin settings it just states "The installation directory chosen cannot be used. Please select another directory"???

    Tried installing Origin to D:\all games then trying to change install location to D:\ but still same error.

    Thanks for your time and help.

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    Last edited by g8ina; 21-02-2013 at 01:28 PM.

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin CRAP! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    Try creating a directory within the Origin install directory then just point to it, thats what I done and no issues, my install path is :

    D:\EA Origin\Origin Games

    Then it puts the game directory within that.

    It has to be a different path to the Origin client from what I remember when I first started using it.

    I had a chew on last night trying to get Battlefield 3 to run, once started you have Battlelog and you click play from your web browser (Multi, Co Op or Single) and it was saying I needed to install the game first. Could have sworn the 18Gb download and installation is what it was doing.

    Turns out one of the patches has a habit of doing this, if it does happen then you need to right click the game image in My Games in Origin and select repair and it sorts the issue within a few minutes.

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin CRAP! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    you need to go in to origin settings and change the games folder also, it will give you 2 options, one for Origin and one for Origin Games

    Created a new directory where ever you want it and point the games to that folder.

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin CRAP! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    What Steve said. I allowed Origin client to be on my C: SSD drive. I then went in to Origin, and under settings you can tell it to install the games to wherever you like.
    I'm lucky enough to have a 256Gb SSD so left the games folder in C: as well.
    Society's to blame,
    Or possibly Atari.

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    Still getting the error, does not matter where i try to set the Dir even if it is C:\

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    Have you tried running it as admin, just to rule out any rights-based problems?

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Have you tried running it as admin, just to rule out any rights-based problems?
    YEP : P

    I have found lots of people with this problem and tried other fixes and still no joy.
    Giving up as it wont even install from the DVD's just says preparing install.... So given up, not only am i installing it to my SSD but also having to download all 18GB of it

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    Re: Battlefield 3 and Origin! Can anyone help me change the install Dir please?

    Install Origin to D:\ too ? - i know for a fact that i have the client sat on C:\ but the games folder sat on D:\




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