"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 have a problem where the sims 3 launcher pops up but tells me my base game is incompatible with the current expansion pack. Shorty after i click ok an update pops up. I did this update last night which took me about 5 hours to complete. Once it finished I clicked play and the same thing happened! The same update then popped up and I am not willing to wait another 5 hours for it to complete and not work again. I checked previous forums where people have had the same problem as me but it doesnt seem to work. In one of them they advised to download a super patch and make it work from there? I did this but just as it was about to start the installation a box appeared saying "The setup has detected that version 1.42.130 of The Sims 3 is already installed. This setup installs an earlier version of The Sims 3 (1.22.9). You will have to uninstall the previous version before installing this version" I dont know where to get a more up to date version and i just don't know what more to do? I also tried to just uninstall the base game and reinstall it but that didnt change anything either.

The packs I have are Pets, High End Loft Stuff, Late Night, Generations and Seasons.

Please help as soon as you can, i think im getting withdrawl symptoms lol ☹️