So my origins account shows that I have all the expansions installed except for "into the future". However when I launched the game I noticed that I didnt have the option to play in bridgeport. I went back to the launcher and I noticed that late night and ambitions dont show up under the installed packs section. How can I fix this? I already uninstalled and reinstalled late night and its still not showing up. Thank you all in advance.

The trouble is that origin shows late night as being installed but its not letting me select it as a pack i want to play. It doesnt show up there. I/m going to have to uninstall and then reinstall everything I think. lol this is what I get for wanting to play the sims today : /

Perhaps @igazor or @phoebebebe13 may know what to do. :)

I have contacted EA several times the last few weeks nearly daily as ALL my expansion and stuff packs are missing on launcher. Did everything they told me. They said that it is an update on my gaming computer and zero problem on their side. It is not because all my Steam games work. My friend had the same with origin battlefield problem for Months...so he has not played for months. He said one day his brother could suddenly play it. I also believe it is the Sims latest patch that is doing this as before this everything worked fine. I really do not know what to do anymore.

Thank you @lisasc360. To limit necroposting, we'll close this thread out here.

If you are currently on Patch 1.69, you'll need to enable what packs you want to play the first time. :)There is also a glitch that Maxis needs to address and release another patch to fix the issue with Patch 1.69.http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/881376/packs-disabling-itself-read-here-patch-1-69#latest

Expansions not showing up in the launcher

42 Replies

Colton141414
Seasoned Novice
9 years ago
If you are currently on Patch 1.69, you'll need to enable what packs you want to play the first time. :)

There is also a glitch that Maxis needs to address and release another patch to fix the issue with Patch 1.69.
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/881376/packs-disabling-itself-read-here-patch-1-69#latest
burnticecubez
9 years ago
The trouble is that origin shows late night as being installed but its not letting me select it as a pack i want to play. It doesnt show up there. I/m going to have to uninstall and then reinstall everything I think. lol this is what I get for wanting to play the sims today : /
Colton141414
Seasoned Novice
9 years ago
Perhaps @igazor or @phoebebebe13 may know what to do. :)
burnticecubez
9 years ago
I tried that but it still didnt show up on the launcher. thank you guys for the adivce. Im just going to uninstall everything and reinstall a couple expansionss at a time. I'll let you know how it goes
igazor
9 years ago
If it's not too late, I would suggest uninstalling and reinstalling just Origin first. Mostly because it's easy to do, but doing so might fix whatever communication problem Origin seems to be having with your TS3 Launcher.
BGH22
9 years ago
Agree with igazor uninstall and reinstall origin
ah147
9 years ago
Hi guys, same problem here. Except with me it's World Adventures, Ambitions and Late Night. My other expansion packs all work.

I've spent two days on the phone to EA and it's been a nightmare.

I've uninstalled and reinstalled origin and sims several times, ran CCCleaners, manually cleared caches, been told to download super patcher which no longer works with the game by the way, created new user accounts and reinstalled there, sent them DxDiags and MSConfigs, and just about every other possible thing.

No change.

They're trying to blame a Nvidia graphics card being render only on my system, despite me having proof that Sims3 is running on the Nvidia graphics card....

I'm ringing em again tomorrow, don't expect no better though.
ah147
9 years ago
I've found my old world adventures disc. Installed through the disc and it works.

I'm beginning to wonder if its a problem with the origin download.
BGH22
9 years ago
"soaringinhim;14711393" wrote:
I'm having the same problem with Late Night. It's downloaded, shows up in Origin, but not in the launcher's selection tool (all my other expansions are - and I have a lot of them). I didn't have a problem when I played Sims 3 before, but that was over a year ago. So I'm thinking it may be a patch issue... but I'm not sure how to test that theory.

It might be the new 1.69 patch. Try uninstalling and reinstalling origin. If that does not work I would contact ea and report it. All the people that regularly help in tech here have the old 1.67 patch so we are not sure if this is a 1.69 patch issue
BGH22
9 years ago
"MinnieMouse;14713925" wrote:
> @phoebebebe13 said:
> It might be the new 1.69 patch. Try uninstalling and reinstalling origin. If that does not work I would contact ea and report it. All the people that regularly help in tech here have the old 1.67 patch so we are not sure if this is a 1.69 patch issue

If I uninstall/reinstall Origin, is that going to affect my Sims games? (i.e. will I have to re-download/install them?)

no. Origin is separate from the game. If you feel safer you can go into documents , electronic arts folder to the sims 3 folder. You can pull your whole sims 3 folder to desktop , uninstall and reinstall origin and then put the sims 3 folder back.