Strange Error Occurring
I know this post is rather long. My apologies for that. I recently upgrade my computer to the new OS (Mavericks) and ever since then, I've been having issues with my Sims games. I open the launcher ju...
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> @Ashpeef said:
> @RHGandSLK4ever: There are three reasons I can think of why it wouldn't work.
>
> 1) Your Sims 3 BaseGame disk is too recent (i.e. 2012 or later) -- from that time on EA forced everyone to use both Origin and the Launcher, no way around it as far as I know.
> 2) Your Sims 3 BaseGame is installed from an Origin download. Same results as above.
> 3) You let EA update your Origin recently (November 12 or later) -- it now states to be version 1.69. Basically same results as above; however in this case you might be able to undo the damage by uninstalling the game, re-installing from the old disk and using the super patcher to 1.67 to update to the previous patch level -- first remove the checkmarks for auto-update games in both Origin and the Launcher and don't let the Launcher do the update!
I can't seem to locate my original disk :/ which is why I downloaded from origin. Can EA just give me sims 4 for free because of all my trouble? I think that's fair. :smile: Also to anyone else with the issue of course.
> @RHGandSLK4ever: There are three reasons I can think of why it wouldn't work.
>
> 1) Your Sims 3 BaseGame disk is too recent (i.e. 2012 or later) -- from that time on EA forced everyone to use both Origin and the Launcher, no way around it as far as I know.
> 2) Your Sims 3 BaseGame is installed from an Origin download. Same results as above.
> 3) You let EA update your Origin recently (November 12 or later) -- it now states to be version 1.69. Basically same results as above; however in this case you might be able to undo the damage by uninstalling the game, re-installing from the old disk and using the super patcher to 1.67 to update to the previous patch level -- first remove the checkmarks for auto-update games in both Origin and the Launcher and don't let the Launcher do the update!
I can't seem to locate my original disk :/ which is why I downloaded from origin. Can EA just give me sims 4 for free because of all my trouble? I think that's fair. :smile: Also to anyone else with the issue of course.
