Origin thinks all my games need to be reinstalled

Dicehunter · 11 Jan 2012 at 13:30

When i started windows up today all my games were there and playable but only from within the install directory, origin says ready to download underneath everyone of them, anyway to fix this ?

iguanoid · 12 Jan 2012 at 07:20

Origin recently decided that my BF3 was no longer installed also. No idea why.

Angst · 12 Jan 2012 at 08:31

If you tell it to reinstall will it not find the files on your hdd like steam does?

Elfmeister. · 12 Jan 2012 at 10:42

This happened to me.

I no longer play the game now

hairyfeet · 14 Jan 2012 at 01:24

Angst said:
If you tell it to reinstall will it not find the files on your hdd like steam does?

Nope. EA essentially forcing people to use their platform for exclusives however it still lacks the basic functionality of making backups

PermaBanned · 14 Jan 2012 at 01:28

Why don't you contact EA Support?

arknor · 14 Jan 2012 at 01:31

hairyfeet said:
Nope. EA essentially forcing people to use their platform for exclusives however it still lacks the basic functionality of making backups

wierd cos i copy pasted a bf3 install from another computer and it found it fine

neoglow · 14 Jan 2012 at 15:42

IMO Origin is naff in comparison to other game UI's like Steam.

I had a similar problem recently, I think it has something to do with registry entries. Maybe try regedit if you are experienced enough to start messing around with Origins reg entries.

Ive got a dual boot system, XP and Vista. 3 HDD's in total, one for XP, one for Vista and the 3rd for Games. Steam and Origin are both installed on the Games HDD. I can load up Steam when in either XP or Vista and everyting works fine. The only thing I have to do is copy the location of the save game files for each game to the correct loaction for both OS's. Eg, My Docs/My Games.

Origin however, if I install a game through Vista, eg Crysis 2, it says 'ready to download' in XP. God knows how to change this. As said above, I have to launch the game from a shortcut or from the install directory.

LostCorpse · 14 Jan 2012 at 18:20

neoglow said:
Ive got a dual boot system, XP and Vista. 3 HDD's in total, one for XP, one for Vista and the 3rd for Games. Steam and Origin are both installed on the Games HDD. I can load up Steam when in either XP or Vista and everyting works fine. The only thing I have to do is copy the location of the save game files for each game to the correct loaction for both OS's. Eg, My Docs/My Games.

why not re-target the My Doc directory to a folder on the games harddisk or target to the vista mydocs folder? all it is a redirect anyway at least on xp, not sure on vistsa as i have got that up and running yet.