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1 year ago
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Can't login on Sims 3 launcher / in game

Hi, I've been trying every single thing in the book to try to login on the sims 3 launcher as well as through the game and it is just not working. I've cleared the IE cache and all of those things, my password doesn't have special characters, I deleted my email from the downloads bin and I don't have a VPN enabled. I am at a loss of what to do. Any help would be appreciated, the errors I am getting consist of on the launcher every time I try to login it just keeps popping up as if the password is wrong but I get no error message, and when I attempt to in game thats when I get the invalid password pop up. This has been going on for years but I've brushed it off but now none of my purchased sims 3 store content is available in my game and on the launcher it shows it's been downloaded but I cannot access it. I'm not sure if these are two separate issues or one. Like I said any help is appreciated. Thanks!

  • @lana103  Let's see whether the Store content issue has the same cause.  Please try the content in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts, which will remove (but not delete) your user data: saves, Store and custom content, mods, etc.  Open the launcher to create a new folder.   Download one item from the Store and install it, then see whether it loads in-game.  You shouldn't need to sign into the launcher or game itself to use the content.

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  • @lana103  Let's see whether the Store content issue has the same cause.  Please try the content in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts, which will remove (but not delete) your user data: saves, Store and custom content, mods, etc.  Open the launcher to create a new folder.   Download one item from the Store and install it, then see whether it loads in-game.  You shouldn't need to sign into the launcher or game itself to use the content.

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    lana103
    1 year ago

    Thank you so much! It worked and I guess this whole time I assumed you had to be logged in to download items but it worked perfectly fine. Just saved me from the biggest migraine thank you!

  • I have done everything, but it still asks me to log in again, and I still can't download anything from the exchange. 

  • 4AngieB  Try clearing Edge's Internet Explorer-mode data.  Even if you never use Edge, let alone IE, the launcher does for some purposes.  Here's how (end of the article):

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/view-and-delete-browser-history-in-microsoft-edge-00cf7943-a9e1-975a-a33d-ac10ce454ca4

    If that doesn't help, try creating a new admin Windows account.  Make it local, as in, don't link it to your Microsoft account or any email address.  You'll be able to launch the game without reinstalling anything, but your saves and other user data won't be available.  That's fine for now and can be addressed later.