Decided to install sims 3 today
asking myself why did i ever buy 286 items from the sims 3 store. trying to download everything and the download dashboard is sooooooooooo slooooow. im over an hour atleast and only at about 70. u...
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Hi @MiSFiT203
Don't give up just go at it slowly step by step I am not sure what what PC setup you are playing on?
For example while I own all the digital version of the game via Origin I had to pay again for the game discs I did not own to enable me to play the game on an extra hard drive I had fitted in my desktop so i could play sims 3 via disc and without an internet connection or origin. I personally had to go this route because after the patch went from 1.67 to 1.69 plus a windows 10 upgrade my graphics have played up terribly despite a lot of help from some very great techie players on this forum so I have reverted back to disc as i did not want to give up my game.
The only thing as i said above is that store content connected to the digital game will not play on a disc game it has to be re downloaded using disc only which is a pain but doable.
What has happened is that because you have origin already installed and running on your PC it will always automatically revert your discs when installing them to the digital version of the game now not matter how you try and avoid it there is no longer any choice for the player about that. If you wanted to play disc version only you would probably have to uninstall origin and turn your internet off while installing. plus the base game disc needs to be prior 2012 version when installing/playing a disc only game because after that date the base game requires origin to play and you are back getting stuck with the digital version of the game again.
I am certainly no expert but perhaps if you post your PC specs and what discs you have including the year of your base game disc techie players are usually more than happy to help you :)
Don't give up just go at it slowly step by step I am not sure what what PC setup you are playing on?
For example while I own all the digital version of the game via Origin I had to pay again for the game discs I did not own to enable me to play the game on an extra hard drive I had fitted in my desktop so i could play sims 3 via disc and without an internet connection or origin. I personally had to go this route because after the patch went from 1.67 to 1.69 plus a windows 10 upgrade my graphics have played up terribly despite a lot of help from some very great techie players on this forum so I have reverted back to disc as i did not want to give up my game.
The only thing as i said above is that store content connected to the digital game will not play on a disc game it has to be re downloaded using disc only which is a pain but doable.
What has happened is that because you have origin already installed and running on your PC it will always automatically revert your discs when installing them to the digital version of the game now not matter how you try and avoid it there is no longer any choice for the player about that. If you wanted to play disc version only you would probably have to uninstall origin and turn your internet off while installing. plus the base game disc needs to be prior 2012 version when installing/playing a disc only game because after that date the base game requires origin to play and you are back getting stuck with the digital version of the game again.
I am certainly no expert but perhaps if you post your PC specs and what discs you have including the year of your base game disc techie players are usually more than happy to help you :)
