Copy Battlefield 4 from one computer to another without redownloading

Instructions on how to move / relocate Battlefield 4 from one computer to another without having to re-download the entire game from EA.

Don’t want to download 30GB of BF4 content twice, no problem – follow the steps below and you can copy your existing download to a second (third, forth, etc) computer.

  1. Locate your Battlefield4 folder on the main computer where you have already downloaded battlefield 4 (you can find out where your games are stored by opening Origin and selecting Origin>Application Settings>Advanced (tab)>Downloaded Games – this will show you the path)
  2. Plugin your external harddrive or flashdrive you want to use to copy the game over to the new computer (you can also use network sharing if needed)
  3. Copy the Battlefield 4 folder to the new computer/drive
  4. On the new computer open origin and check where your files are stored using the same technique as step 1
  5. In origin on the new computer click download battlefield 4 (after the download gets to 1% quit origin (don’t stop the download just quit origin from the task bar)
  6. Copy the backup of Battlefield 4 from your main computer over the top of the folder on the new computer that you just created
  7. Let it finish copying
  8. Open origin on the new computer and wait a few seconds – the download bar will change to 100% and it will start installing
  9. Click “install” if it shows up otherwise you should now be good to go

4 Comments

  1. Yes this worked,
    I did not have to quit Origin
    –LET Origin download for a bit, pause the Origin download,
    –copy over the files to the “framework” that Origin created
    –Resume download and in a few minutes Origin installed the game

    Worked for a whole Sims 3 install and its expansion packs (had to do it one at a time for each pack)

  2. WooooW all of That Was Just So Hard
    this is the way i have used
    1- after You download The Game , go to Origin Games copy Battlefield 4
    2- after downloading origin in other computer open it and close the process
    3- go to origin Games in the 2nd Computer and paste Battlefield 4 there

    Now Go To Origin and click download and It will jump To 99% and finish downloading
    Hope This Helps

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