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13 years ago

Solved

"Base game is incompatible with current expansion pack"

Hi, Ive been trying for weeks to play my sims 3 games and its become so frustrating, Ive tried everything! I even wiped my whole laptop and installed all the sims games again but still no change. I...

technical issues

crinrict
13 years ago
Try downloading the super patch manually here then:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Patch-1-57/td-p/67858/

Not sure what you've downloaded before but you'll need patch 1.57

Natalieterry_xo

13 years ago

Thankyou for replying!

The base game version I have is 1.42.130.019001

TheDebinator30

New Rookie

7 years ago

How did you figure that out? I can’t launch the game to even see!

puzzlezaddict
Hero+
7 years ago
@TheDebinator30 What kind of install do you have? This issue is a bit old and shouldn't affect Origin-only installs (although it can certainly show up with discs). How to resolve it depends on how you installed in the first place.