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Bettyboop55
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7 years ago

Re-Installation help please

I am putting this thread here rather than in the technical section as it crosses several boundaries.

At Christmas I thought I had removed all my store content except the worlds from my game. This was in order to get EIG in the CAW to work, which it did. I did notice that my build/buy objects from the store worlds appeared to be missing but that wasn't too much of a problem.

Tonight I decided to take a little time off from CAW and went to start a new game with Sunlit Tides but found it missing from the drop down list along with all the others. So I reinstalled them and now have two copies showing in the drop down list.

Putting it down to age and feeling under par I conclude I must have done something extremely stupid when I removed my download file and the back up download file. I have, therefore decided to reinstall from scratch in the morning.

I use disks and plan to go on doing so.

I have Origin on my laptop but understand it will not longer update disk copies to version 1.67. Please could someone post me the link so that I can do this manually.

I also understand the launcher is no longer patched and I will need to retain and reuse the contents patch file. Where can I find this please within the TS3 game files and what is the precise name I am looking for.

Finally I only plan to reinstall store worlds tomorrow. Can someone please confirm as long as I keep the downloads file below 5gb EIG should continue to work. The rest can wait until I am feeling better and Project Fenbury is at a stage where I can export it.

A lot to ask but I would be deeply grateful for any help.

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  • If you haven't already begun the uninstall and reinstall process, please stop. I would suggest not doing this.

    A game reinstall only affects the Program Files. It has nothing to do with your user game folder in Documents nor your content. If you ended up with Sunlit Tides twice, that would probably be because it got inserted twice into the InstalledWorlds folder. Remove the duplicate one if this is the case, especially if you now see something like Sunlit Tides.world where there wasn't one with the number after it before.

    In a more extreme case, if something is wrong with your TS3 user game folder in Documents, then pull it out to your Desktop for safekeeping. The game will spawn a new one on its next launch on which you could, after testing it, rebuild your content. Reinstalling the game will not accomplish this (or probably anything helpful).

    I am not a CAW/EIG user, but I don't see how the game folder's Downloads can be relevant to any of this. Downloads is where sims3packs are held pending their installation. The actual installed content goes into bundles in DCCache (and worlds themselves land in InstalledWorlds). EA Store Content is bundled into ebc files, custom content is bundled into dbc files. The game does not read the Downloads folder, only the Launcher does when installing or uninstalling content. Most of us leave Downloads clear so that the Launcher has less to read when we do need it for something, our games are not affected by doing so.

    If it's too late or if you need/want it anyway, EA's SuperPatcher for 1.67 is here: https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/the-sims/the-sims-3/the-sims-3-super-patcher

    The Store Content patches can be obtained here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/16341933/#Comment_16341933
  • @igazor many thanks. I have not touched a thing. I would rather not touch my game if I can help it so I will do as you suggest about the duplicate copies of the worlds and get the game to generate a new games folder.

    As for the downloads file and CAW it may be apocryphal about size and the need to remove it, along with the dccache. Either way it meant I could get EIG to work.

    And thank you also for the links. Sooner or later I will need both when I set up a new desk top :D

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