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Plaidygami
12 years ago
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Can't Connect To EADM/Origin - EVEN AFTER MANUAL PATCH

So I decided to download and play The Sims 3 today after a long hiatus. So I go on Origin, update it, download The Sims 3, and start downloading the DLC/Expansions.

Ambitions tells me I gotta update The Sims 3, so I go ahead and try, tells me I can't connect to the EA Download Manager. After ten minutes of looking online, I see I have to manually patch it. Alright, I manually patched it to 1.67. Now when I try to check for updates (just to verify), it STILL tells me it can't connect to the EA Download Manager.

Can someone enlighten me please as to why this is happening?

EDITED: It now says "Can't connect to Origin" instead of EADM, so I guess that's an improvement, but the problem itself still stands.

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  • Plaidygami's avatar
    Plaidygami
    12 years ago

    Nope. Game plays fine, to be honest. It's just a matter of updating the game (should it need to be updated). I just don't want to have to manually update it via the forums' manual patch download links. It would have been nicer to update it from the launcher.

    EDIT: Uhhhhh.....I think it just fixed itself....? I think it's Origin's newest update (about a minute ago as of writing this). I'll need to verify this later tonight.

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  • Plaidygami's avatar
    Plaidygami
    12 years ago

    I have reinstalled the game already, and it still says "Can't connect", though now it says Origin instead of EADM, so I guess that's an improvement. I also think my Origin is already up to date, as Auto-Update is turned on.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    12 years ago

    I would reinstall Origin anyways. It's done fast and helps in most cases.

  • Plaidygami's avatar
    Plaidygami
    12 years ago

    Okay, so I have reinstalled Origin and backed my Sims 3 data up. It seems that it still tells me it can't connect to Origin when I check for updates from the sims 3 launcher.

    Really not sure what's going on. I went through all the settings on Origin, too, to see if something seemed weird, but everything seems fine. Origin is enabled in-game, cloud saving is on, etc.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    12 years ago

    Do you have issues playing the game at all ? The message should not actually be a problem to play.

  • Plaidygami's avatar
    Plaidygami
    12 years ago

    Nope. Game plays fine, to be honest. It's just a matter of updating the game (should it need to be updated). I just don't want to have to manually update it via the forums' manual patch download links. It would have been nicer to update it from the launcher.

    EDIT: Uhhhhh.....I think it just fixed itself....? I think it's Origin's newest update (about a minute ago as of writing this). I'll need to verify this later tonight.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    12 years ago

    Well I hope it did but I think it's pretty safe to say, that you won't need to update ever again unless you reinstall. I don't think we'll get another patch for this game.

    Could you accept a solution if it really did fix itself ?

    Thanks.

  • Plaidygami's avatar
    Plaidygami
    12 years ago

    Yeah, I just accepted my post as a solution, I guess. But thanks for helping me along; I really appreciate it!

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