EA you are violating your own terms
If you have not updated your game past 1.67 don't buy anymore stuff packs or sets for Sims 3. EA is forcing update if you do. I bought 2 stuff packs and was not able to install them unless I updated...
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"igazor;15335595" wrote:"Me1620;15334348" wrote:
@igazor or anyone else who knows - My base game, EPs and SPs are all on DVD except for Diesel for which I purchased the digital version from Origin. My game is still 1.67 version. I have the Diesel installer folder with the setup file backed up. If I ever have to reinstall my game, am I able to install Diesel from my backed up setup file without having my game updated to 1.69?
Wish I could help more definitively. I've never gotten Origin to honor the setting to put a copy of the setup files in a backed up place, it just seems to ignore me. If you have to reinstall the game on the same computer, that file may work to keep Origin out of the picture long enough to stay off of 1.69 but I wouldn't count on it. If you have to reinstall on a different computer, that probably won't work at all.
I believe the intent, for those who can get it to work, of the backed up setup files is to avoid having to download huge amounts of data all over again just to do an in-place reinstall, not to do an end-run around Origin. At the risk of giving you something unnecessary to do, you may want to seek out a disc copy of that one SP to complete your collection for future installs. Or play without it should such a day arrive. It's one of my favorite SPs but, at the end of the day, it's just an SP and not game-breaking (to me) if it were to go missing.
I got those installers to save to my hard drive but I've never been game to try to use them. Back in 2014, just before Sims 4 was released, I went and bought all of my digital versions of Sims 3 packs on disk from my local game store when it had a huge sale on Sims 3 disks. I had to buy a lot of them. Funny thing is, when I installed onto this laptop it wanted to use the registered codes when I installed from the new disks so I never got to use the codes that came with the disks. Don't know what will happen when I need to install on another new computer at some stage in the future though. I hope I need to wait a really long time before having to find out.
