Re: My sims 3 ambitions not playable; doesn't show in launcher.

Could you post a picture on what your launcher looks like ?

Hey, launcher and windows don't show ambitions. However, it shows in origin as downloaded and appears on my sims 3 page as downloaded.

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Could you do an Origin Error Report and put your ID here

http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-use-origin-error-reporting/

Tagging @EA_Kristi

I'm having the same issue. It shows in my files and on Origin, but I have not been able to play Ambitions whatsoever. It doesn't appear in the launcher and I've tried to uninstall and resinstall a few times, even tried repairing in case the file was corrupted.

I thought I had solved the problem when I discovered it wasn't saving to the Origin files (or anywhere I could find, for that matter) and that all the other EPs had saved to the EA files. I changed the save location to the EA files and uninstalled and installed Ambitions again, and this time it showed up, like I said, in files.. but not in the game launcher.

Any solutions here? Thank you in advance!

Could you please also post your OER

Are you wanting my error report ID posted here? Sorry am not very clear

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@crinrict wrote:

Could you please also post your OER

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Yes.

Since I posted instructions above, I thought I can be short :D

09953b0370006dfd

thank you, I have hard time following is all. Am not very savvy

A CM will need to look at that.

Unfortunately, it being the weekend, you might need to wait till Monday

Tagging @EA_Kristi

Okay, I am very hopeful to have this issue resolved 🙂

@hailighrenee There does seem to be something strange going on there, but I think it is an Origin issue. Could you please try the steps in the order below:

1. Uninstall the EP's you have issues with (go to 'View Game Details' by right clicking the Sims 3 base game tile and the right click the EP tile in Origin client and select 'Uninstall')
2. Manually uninstall Origin
3. Run CCleaner
4. Restart your router/modem and do a Clean Boot
5. Make sure that your UAC is enabled and set to notify
6. Download the latest version of Origin and install the client - make sure to run the setup file with Admin rights
7. Add firewall/antivirus exceptions for Origin and open the needed ports
8. When starting Origin, please make sure to run it as Administrator

After this try installing the EP's again and check if they show up!

@hailighrenee There does seem to be something strange going on there, but I think it is an Origin issue. Could you please try the steps in the order below:

1. Uninstall the EP's you have issues with (go to 'View Game Details' by right clicking the Sims 3 base game tile and the right click the EP tile in Origin client and select 'Uninstall')
2. Manually uninstall Origin
3. Run CCleaner
4. Restart your router/modem and do a Clean Boot
5. Make sure that your UAC is enabled and set to notify
6. Download the latest version of Origin and install the client - make sure to run the setup file with Admin rights
7. Add firewall/antivirus exceptions for Origin and open the needed ports
8. When starting Origin, please make sure to run it as Administrator

After this try installing the EP's again and check if they show up!

I have been experiencing the same issues as others beforehand and I am currently following the instructions you have posted, I will provide an edit once the fresh install finishes and a simple 'check-and-see' is conducted.

EDIT: The fresh installation of The Sims 3 Ambitions has just finished and also checked a 'check-and-see' and according to the launcher it still doesn't show up. The only thing I had running was the origin launcher to install the game faster. Sadly it didn't work.

Have you tried all the suggestions in this thread ?

every single instruction, remove the EP that gave me a problem, uninstalling origin, fresh install of it as admin, then did a reinstall of ambitions and still nothing, it's like origin doesn't want me to have sims 3 ambitions installed.

@ArkemosBloodmaw Could you please run Origin Error Report and post the ID here? 

Origin Error Report ID: 099e468670009a56

I really hope this gets resolved, I miss being a Firefighter.

@ArkemosBloodmaw Thanks for that! I just wanted to confirm, did you also try doing a Clean Boot?

In either case, I shall be looking into this and I hope to get back to you as soon as possible!

Yes, yes I did. Sometimes I wish I could use the origin version of the sims 3 and just do a physical install of ambitions and play the game that way but according to the sims site, that's unable to happen.

EDIT: and it seems that after all that it still doesn't wanna install the expansion, this is starting to get slightly annoying.

EDIT 2: ok, so I did a full uninstall of sims 3 and everything I had with it to run a test to see if the sims 3 ambitions expansion pack on mine was corrupted, all I did was install sims 3 then ambitions and it wont show. Just thought to let ya know.

@EA_Kristi Have you found out what is going on or are we still in the dark on this matter, cause I have tried just about everything that I could think of.

Sorry, just for recap since it's been awhile

• Do you have the disc or download version of the base game ?
• Do you have the disc or download version of ambitions ?
• What's your base game version ?

Seeing as I don't like to answer things out of order for it tends to confuse some people..(like me for example)

1. I have the base game as a disc originally but it got added to my origin library after one of the newer expansions was released.

2. I do have the disc version of Ambitions (along with every other expansion and 2 stuff, and one from origin) and ambitions was working before origin kept saying that the sims 3 needed to update and decided to remove everything. Basically forcing me to reinstall everything, which was when the problems started to arise.

3. By base game I assume you mean the current version? I believe it's version 1.69.43.024017, if the base version is needed with no expansions or stuff packs I would have to install the game on a different computer to provide the correct answer.

With 1.69 you need to install the download version of ambitions as they are saved to a different path.

This is something I still need to verify but disc and download version now install to a different path which might confuse the game.

Have you tried repairing the game through Origin yet ?

Ten times to be truthful, I tried to repair it ten times on origin and it still doesn't want to show up no matter what I try, as for doing a manual installation of sims 3 ambitions, I tried to install it into the origin folder, which worked for a moment until Origin said that the version was out of date and removed it, and after doing an uninstallation of it on origin and reinstallation as well, I always check on the 'Expansions & Stuff' tab and arrange it by title, which seems to put  them in alphabetical order and it still doesn't show up as activate or anything., I will also provide a screenshot or two of what I currently see on my origin panel and on my launcher of the sims 3.

EDIT: I just noticed that the second screenshot was showing my favorite song by tombstone XD