[EA APP] Choose the language
Introduction
You will be prompted to choose your language on installing the game. Players that like to switch their language later, can do so fairly easily. You will need an active Internet Connection.
EA games are normally available in English only for the UK and in Polish/Czech/Russian for Poland/Czech/Russia and a few other countries.
The available languages are dependent in which country you bought the game. Because of this, it should be possible to buy a key on Amazon.de or Amazon.com and get the all-languages version this way even if you live in one of the mentioned countries (no guarantees)
Games bought with keysellers often are either one language versions or the Polish/Czech/Russian Version. Always check what languages are sold to you and complain with the seller if that’s not what you end up with..
It depends on the game for which languages it’s being localized which is listed in the details of the game. Unfortunately this list isn’t filtered by country. Because of this, it may happen that some languages aren’t available to you. Unfortunately you only know after buying the game which ones those are. It’s best to contact support before buying if you want to be sure.
Follow these steps to find out which languages are supported for your game.
Steps
Open EA app
Click on Browse and look for the desired game
Scroll all the way down until the end
Under Languages you will find all the languages the game was localized in.
Steps to switch the language
For some games those steps are only necessary once, for others for changing the audio language or even for both text and audio. Check your game if there are options to change the language through a launcher or ingame (settings or options menu).
Steps
Open EA app and choose Library.
Click on the three dots in the upper right corner of the game tile and choose View Properties
Choose the desired language from the drop down menu and click save and close the window.
Wait until the game changed the language for all packs you have installed (this will happen each time you change the language through EA app, even if you had the game installed in the other language before). Please be patient with the process and only continue after it’s all done.
Start the game. If you had previous save games and other user files they might be missing. If you want to continue with the same saves in the new language you need to manually move them over (see below). You need to start the game once for the game to create a user folder.
If you see your saves/settings in the game, you’re are done and you can continue to play.
If your saves/settings are missing, close the game and manually move them over.
Steps to manually move the user files
For some games – especially Sims – the game creates a localized user folder. Because of this, your save games are not available in a different language. The following steps describe the manual moving process by the example of Sims 4. For different games it will work similar although most games probably won’t even be affected since the user folder name isn’t localized.
Steps
Go to your user files which can be found in Documents\Electronic Arts\<name of your game> or Documents\<name of your game>
Depending on your language you might have two user folders now that are named slightly different. You will need to copy all files from the old user folder to the new one.
Open the folder that has the name in the language you had before (if you had English, it will for example be called The Sims 4)
Open the folder that has the name of the language you have now (if you have German now, it will be called Die Sims 4) in a different window
Copy the files over. Be aware that some folders are named differently depending on the language you installed the game in. Copy the files over folder by folder to whatever seems appropriate (ex. Recorded Videos –> Aufgenommene Videos). Some folders might also be missing since they are only created when used. You can just copy those over. Wrongly named folders make the content not appear in the game so make sure you copy the files to the appropriate folder.
Start the game. You should now be able to play your old saves.
