A few months ago I reinstalled Sims 3 on my new MacBook Air. It worked perfectly and later I also installed Studentlife. I keep getting the same error:
'The game cannot be started. Your base game of The Sims 3 is not compatible with the current Sims 3 expansion pack. Update your game through the Launcher'
So I did, and reinstalled Origin, the base game, the expension pack, updated everything (including my Mac) and made sure I've had more than enough storage. After some googling I found a topic on installing a specific version by hand and I think I did that but it's still not working, I'm not sure I did it right but couldn't find a clear instruction for it.
Here some specifics of my Mac:
MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch, 2020)
Processor: 1,2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7
System (videokaart): Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB
Really hope someone knows what I can do!! Thank you.
@rosesmits Please open Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 and delete the file labeled Version.tag.
@rosesmits Just to make sure, please use Terminal to search for any extra copies of Version.tag. Open Applications > Utilities, launch Terminal, and copy and paste this:
find / -name "Version.tag" 2>/dev/null
The reason I'm suggesting one of these files might still exist is that this particular error is almost always related to Version.tag. So it's worth checking before going through the other, less relevant steps.
