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Aviendah's avatar
Aviendah
5 years ago

Please help...TS3 says I need to reinstall Base game :/

I have had TS3 downloaded onto a thumb drive for many years now,as this keeps my game from lagging and glitching,and it runs alot more smoothly and have always been able to insert the thumb drive into my computer and then load up the game and everything is great and worked fine,but today when I got on to play I see a message pop up that reads "reinstall the base game,base game not installed " I have bought all my TS3 games as physical disks,none have been bought on Origin,so I don't know why I'm having this trouble. If anyone has an answer as to how I can fix this problem I would greatly appreciate it.
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    5 years ago
    I'm not sure why your install stopped working all of a sudden. But one possibility that comes to mind is that your thumb drive has a different letter now than it did before. You can check the letter assigned to it in a File Explorer window. If it has changed, you can try manually reassigning it, or plugging in your external drives in the order that would give this thumb drive the correct letter. Drives are usually (but not always) lettered sequentially as they're read by the system.

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