Re: Sims 3 Create a World edit in game

Thanks for posting this Aminovas 🙂 

Leaving my own message to EA too !  🙂

Dear EA, I am one of the Sims 3 players with this problem with CAW.

When I try to get CAW to do EIG (Edit in Game) Origin pops up, even if I am already signed into Origin, then the Launcher opens & the only option I have is to launch the launcher as if I were going to play a game.

I am experienced with CAW prior to Seasons & this is not the way its supposed to work.

Origin & the Launcher is blocking CAW from performing the EIG function. As a Sims 3 player, this is beyond my scope to fix.

CAW needs to point to the Sims  games .exe files to EIG not Origin/Launcher.

Please fix this. Really would like to finish working on my world.

I've tried a bunch of things, I've uninstalled CAW, reinstalled it about 4-5 times, I've checked the versions to make sure they are compatible with the game, I've tried to run CAW in compatible with windows vista & windows 7 mode & tried to run it as an administrator, I've tried to install CAW in a different directory,  I've removed malware from my computer, and I've unchecked the box enable Origin in game in the Origin settings.  None of this seems to help. In all cases Origin continues to pop up prompting me to sign in even though I am already signed in.

I'm on a windows 8  PC. I get my games direct download which I believe may be contributing to the problem since I'm forced to sign into Origin to play my games.  I believe that programmers need to look @ the script for CAW to make sure it is pointing to the game .exe file with regards to EIG.  Please fix this EA !  Thank you !

Hi faytheful 🙂

Just to be clear for anyone reading this: there are TWO different versions of the base game available for direct download from origin.  One works with Edit in Game and one does not (the post-Showtime Go-Social version).  

The solution would be for Origin to allow those with a license for the later base game to download the ealier version of the base game instead.  We have paid for a license to the base game and should be able to do this.  The post-Showtime version opens up the launcher instead of the game, and if you have your requirements set to make you sign into origin, it will ask you to do so.  You can change your preferences in Origin to by-pass the Origin sign-on screen, but that does not will not solve the problem of EIG getting stuck at the launcher.

I repeat, the solution would be for Origin to allow those with a license for the later version of the base game to download the original version.  

I realize it's been over a year since this problem was posted, but I haven't found a fix for this. I actually don't have this exact problem, but instead when I click edit in game and confirm that I want to do this.....nothing happens. Origin doesn't open, the launcher doesn't open, only my render panel in Create A World refreshes. I have only the base game installed with a few items from the store but no expansions.

When did you buy the basegame ? Before or after sept 2012 ? It seems the newer base games that require Origin don't work with EIG. I do not believe there's a workaround for that but to be sure, you would need to check the CAW forum on thesims3.com.

Ugh. Yes, I had to replace my copy recently and it's the version with Origin. I think I'm losing track of the reasons I can't stand Origin.