Create a world edit in game mode doesnt work.
When i try to use the edit in game mode feature of create a world for sims three i get "unable to start game. Origin is required to play this game. Please install origin and relaunch the game. If o...
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@Crin are you sure about that? because when I switched from disc to digital sims 3 this year, the CAW tool still works in game for me. It could be a firewall blocking it.
It doesn't matter if you have the digital or disc version. It matters WHEN you bought the base game.
If you have the version that requires an Origin account, EIG does not work (just like bypassing the launcher does not work anymore) - at least that's what everyone is saying, I've never tried myself.
As said, I don't know if a workaround has been found.
If you're unsure which version you have, check your cover: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2014/02/sims-3-base-game-versions.html
WOOOOOOOW!!!! I bought my games in 2013 and because I finally have upgraded to a current updated computer with a current OS I decided to finally download the Create A World tool. I wanted to create a world inspired by the Burning Man festival that is held every year in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. I spent days building the mountains. I made dirt roads that lead to a desert area where the festival and campsite were to be. I made lots for residential and communities, making sure they were the sizes I needed for the buildings that I hope to put on them. I filled the mountain with trees and spawners and made hiking trails for my sims to jog on. And I did all of the terrain painting I wanted for my desert city. But when I was finally ready to do "Edit in World" it wouldn't work. It did exactly what everyone has been complaining about in this forum. It starts just like it would if I were to start playing the game but then nothing happens. I'm still in CAW. As I am looking in several threads and forums for answers so I can solve my problem I now am reading this thread and you guys are saying that there IS NO fix for the problem. 😮
Why does the Sims still offer the tool in their website if it doesn't work with they way EA does things now? I downloaded it just a little over a week ago. I'm so confused and disappointed. 😕
@nycbigl Hi again. I was just about to suggest that you ask about CAW EIG in the Sims forums (I have exactly zero experience with the tool), but I see you're already all over that. From what I've read, you're right that EIG won't work with your version of the game. You might be able to get around it, though, by starting a new game the blank world and editing it in Edit Town, just as you would an existing world. I'm not sure whether that would work, but it might be worth trying.
I also saw you mentioned something about your computer crashing. This could be due to its hardware, or just because TS3 likes to be difficult. If you want, you can run a dxdiag on your computer and attach the results to a post here using the "browse" button. (It might be better to start a new thread, though, so that anyone else coming in for a consult doesn't get sidetracked by the CAW issue.) Both higher- and lower-end systems need a bit of help with TS3, although of course the steps needed to run the game properly are different. (Or you might already have it covered.)
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Anyway, I hope things are going well for you, and I'm glad to hear that you're still enjoying TS3, now on a (hopefully) more cooperative system.
Thank you so much for your reply. You are very kind and generous.
My computer is brand new. I only just got it just a little bit over a month ago. It's a Windows 10 Dell computer with 8GB of Ram and 119GB still free of the 232 GB of hard drive room.
Last night I tried doing Edit in World again and it crashed my entire computer completely. It just turned off on it's own and shut my computer off. Then I uninstalled and reinstalled again making sure I had the right version. When I tried to go into edit in world again it crashed my computer yet again.
I have made up my mind and I am choosing to forgo making my own world. I have never had such an up to date current computer in my life. I have always used older versions due to lack of money. I got this new computer out of shear luck. No joke. I don't want to take any chances in damaging it.
As for using a world that was premade, it's not what I wanted. I wanted to recreate a world based on the Burning Man festival that is held once a year in the Black Rock desert in Nevada, USA. 70,000 people live in the desert area in a temporary grid shaped like a clock face with the streets going from 2 o'clock to 10 o'clock and the avenues labeled from A to M. The "Man" (a giant wooden statue that the festival is named after and then later burned live and in person at the end of the event) is located in the center where the clock hands would be. And at twelve o'clock is a temple where people who wish to morn departed loved ones can leave messages to them before it is also burned on the last day of the event. The Burning Man grid is so massive that it can be seen from space when the festival is in full swing and then it disappears when the event is over as if it were never there.
I spent days building the Black Rock mountains and I made dirt roads that lead to the desert area where the festival and campsite were to be. I laid dirt roads out in a clock formation in a grid that was from 2 o'clock to 10 o'clock but due to lack of room I only did the avenues from A to C, which was fine by me. I made lots for residential and communities, making sure they were the sizes I needed for the buildings that I hope to put on them. I filled the mountain with trees and spawners and made hiking trails for my sims to jog on. And I did all of the terrain painting I wanted for my desert city. I made sure to save my work every so often because I know how the Sims game can be if you don't do so. I put days of work into what I had already created thus far and it' was all for nothing. How saddening. If there's no way of solving the issue than I guess I am going to forget about creating something I was so looking forward to playing with. Something the Sims might not have ever thought of before like creating an art and music festival where you would have to camp like Burning Man here in the U.S. or the Glastonbury Festival in England. 💔
Again, thank you so very much for your help and your suggestions. You're very kind and generous and for that I am very grateful. ❤️
P.S. The image below is from Google and it's of the Burning Man art festival in the Black Rock Desert. One the grid is made it is refereed to as Black Rock City.
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