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roberta591
Hero (Retired)
8 years ago

Re: The sims 3 launcher and game won't work

@GRFN10  The disc version is meant to run with the SecuROM DRM that the game was released with. All the packs and store items have been updated to work with Origin with the game at version 1.69. The disc versions when installed have to be detected and patched for Origin. Some packs don't seem to patch from disc when installed. As you have already uninstalled once I recommend uninstalling everything. Get a program called ccleaner (there is a free version) and clean the registry. THEN install the digital download of the base game. Test the base game - start the game to you get to live mode. If the base game runs install the digital download version of the packs in order they were released to market. Test the game with each pack install. This will tell you if you computer is having trouble with one (or more) packs and which one(s).

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    GRFN10
    8 years ago
    @roberta591 Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know what happens. Hopefully I'll be able to play soon.
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    GRFN10
    8 years ago
    @roberta591 I did what you said and not even the base game would work. So I uninstalled everything, including Origin and reinstalled them (the games as digital). After I did that, I only installed the sims packege downloads to install them through the launcher and everything installed fine and the games all worked. The problem is, apparently, when I place the mods folder. The game won't even work when I merge the packeges into one file. I'll be placing the mods/packages subfolders one by one and see what is actually causing the problem. I think maybe it has something to do with the last CC I downloaded.

    But anyway, thanks a lot for replying to my questions and helping me out. The CCleaner actually helped with my PC and the game as well, they were running much more smoothly because of it. ^_^

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