@Rhiannon58
I decided to go the disc route because I will never trust being able to play 3 after Origin/Win 10 updates in the future so my idea was to use the discs on a seperate hard drive that never touches the internet and so far so good but as said earlier it was a pain re-downloading the whole store via my pre 2012 disc. I have not updated my drivers on 7 either and it does not appear to be a problem with game graphics so i am not going to fiddle with something when it's not currently broken and playing perfectly well lol
I also own steam versions of the game (bought in sales over the years) just as an extreme backup if I had no other choice but have never played on steam however I am niffed to read recently that they may be updating the steam version of 3 which I hope does not also mean the 1.69 patch as I believe many players jumped ship from origin to steam because of that.
I also downloaded all my store worlds using my disc base game disc and have them all available to play so no problems there either.
I save everything now as Disc game version or digital version so I know what works where-)
@Karritz
You remind me of myself when i will be looking for something in game and think OMG I bet I did not download that from the store so I do it all over again despite several backups for both disc and digital games as I don't want EA to be able to take even one item away of my precious content haha
