Strange Error Occurring

"Nabugigi;c-16431255" wrote:
hi, i have an error when I try to use the sims 3 (additional disc called Super Powers). When I launch the game a pop up appears saying that no disc has been inserted whereas I did insert a disc otherwise I couldn't have gone that far to launch it. I just don't get what happens. Did anyone have the same error message ? is there something to do ? On a French forum I've read that a solution could be to download the game from origin's website but I already bought the cd rom and I don't want to pay again. Thanks for your help, Claire

I take it you mean the Supernatural expansion pack.

We do not play the games directly from the disc, we use the disc to install the game on our computers. If not using Origin, the disc should be in place only to authenticate, but the game program doesn't launch or run from there only the installers do.

If you are on the Mac version of the game, this has been said repeatedly on this thread and elsewhere. The latest versions of OS X (El Capitan, Sierra, and High Sierra) will not authenticate the TS3 discs, it will be as if you do not even have a disc in the drive. Only the Origin version of the game will install and play on a Mac running these operating systems, there is no way around that.

If you have registered your base game and expansion pack purchase on the older TS3 site, or if you can do so now (you must be the original owner of the discs), then there is no additional charge to download and install the Origin version of the game as long as you use Origin with the same login credentials. You would have to uninstall the disc versions first, then the discs will no longer be needed. The games you have registered should already be showing up in Origin waiting for you to install them.

Edit: Oops sorry @puzzlezaddict, didn't see you there.