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7 years ago

Re: If I uninstall the base sims 3 game, will I lose my expansions?

@Norinia  If you reinstall entirely through Origin, you won't be able to add any game that's not in your Origin library.  I'm not quite sure what you're saying, though.  Do you have none of the discs at all?  In that case, you'd have no way to reinstall any pack that wasn't registered to your account.

If you do have disc copies of the packs that aren't in Origin, that might be a different story.  I'm actually not completely sure what would happen if you installed those packs via disc and the rest via Origin.  (I know it used to work fine, at least most of the time, but things may have changed since you originally installed.)  It's a risk though; if I were in your position, I'd try to borrow someone else's computer for an hour or so and test it out.

Before you consider uninstalling, though, try a clean game folder.  Pull your entire TS3 folder out of Documents\EA and onto your desktop, and a new one will spawn the next time you launch the game.  Start a new save and play for a bit, testing live mode, CAS, and Edit Town to see whether it crashes.  If not, you can copy one of your saves into the new folder from the old one and test again.

Your NRaas mods are probably not the source of your crashes, although there are some reasons they'd now cause issues.  One is if your game was never fully patched until now—adding the new stuff pack would have brought your game to 1.69.  But at any rate, the clean folder won't have any mods.  If the vanilla game runs fine, you can add some mods into the new game folder and test before copying over your save.

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  • Norinia's avatar
    Norinia
    7 years ago

    I fully patched the game years ago. I’ve had the mods for a few months now with no issues. I just downloaded that stuff pack and now after two times of playing it’s failing so that’s the closest I can identify as the problem. 

    What happens is when I start up the game, it will run the intro, then a minute or two of the loading screen will run before the game turns off completely, and origin boots up with the game panel to start it up from within origins pulls out, like when you turn off any other game. 

    I hadn’t heard of that file extract method before, so I’m definitely going to try that. Like I said I’ll try everything before I uninstall the game, because that will be a massive pain.

    Finally, on the game disc, I have I think one of the newer games, which doesn’t matter since I have it on origins anyways, and I have my original sims 3 game discs (back before I actually had origins started, not even sure if the game library was up then, we lost the game a couple times plus changing computers over the years.) but the rest are gone. The ambitions disc alone was scratched to hell and took a long time to get it clean enough to run. Past that, my parents keep moving things in and out of storage.

    Giant disc collection, gone. Hence why I’m trying to use every other method before I trash everything and have to start the hunt again. Origin isn’t exactly running sales on the sims 3 anymore, so that would be hell.

    But at least thank you for that file suggestion, I’m going to go try it right now.

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