New PC time, but which one?

"igazor;c-17250298" wrote:
To restate, and to be fair I did dump a lot of information on you all at once, it doesn't matter what the ages are of the EP and SP discs or what it says on their boxes. It's only the base game disc that is important. And if it's from 2009 or around there, then again you will be fine with an all-disc install, no Origin involvement, don't even install Origin if you don't need it for anything else.

Mods are operating system independent. They work (or do not work) exactly the same on all versions of Windows and even on the Mac version of the game on the macOS.

On the store content, yes the previously downloaded sims3packs should work. In fact, if you have access to a prior TS3 user game folder where they are already installed, you could try bringing the contents of that folder over to your new computer once everything program related is installed and confirmed to be working. But the absolute worst case should be that you have to redownload the store content; I had to do that for my Steam switchover, which was a bit time consuming but not all that bad. I never had to do that for a digital to digital crossgrade with or without Origin involved.

I understood what you meant about the base game age, it's definitely from the first release, I pre-ordered just as the announcement it went gold was made, thanks for that.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding about mods not working and it could be the users not having a proper Mods folder in the right place.

I don't mind reinstalling all of my CC, in fact I intend to, that way I can just not install the stuff I don't use. The store stuff, I bought too much of that and in the end I have a folder called 'Cherry Picked EA' where I keep things I really use, I'd say I've only kept about a 1/4 of what I bought. I'll be going for full clean folder and going from there, a couple of days installing for me I expect. The only stuff I'll carry over is saved games and other things I need for my current game to work.

I'll just await the call to collect and get on with it once I have the PC here. I'll be keeping the one I'm using online until the new one is ready with everything on it, so if I get stuck I'll be back, lol.

Thanks again for all your help and advice