Uninstall your most recent EP then download and reinstall the digital version from Origin. Instructions here.
THIS IS DRIVING ME INSANE. IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD TO PLAY A GAME THAT I SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON.
Every single time I try to play Sims 3, I get it loaded up to the screen where you pick what save file to play and it says, "No Disc Found. Please Insert Game Disc."
I am aware that A LOT of people are having this problem but I have scoured through all the troubleshooting options and nothing has worked. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the base game and all my expansions SEVERAL TIMES OVER. I've deleted everything. Tried to do one expansion at a time. Tried to play with just the base game installed. I swear I have restart finger from all the times I tried restarting after deleting an expansion JUST to see if that worked. NOTHING. NOTHING HAS WORKED. I'm furious. I've tried the digital game as well and I GET THE SAME PROBLEM. WTF?!! It should not be this dang difficult to play a game I paid for!!!!! I never had this problem before but ever since the start of the year, I don't know if it was an update with my OS or what that did it but Sims 3 refuses to work completely. I'M SO ANNOYED BY THIS!!!!
If anyone can help, or just feels like joining in with their own feelings on this inconvenient annoyance, then feel free to respond please!!
Moved your post to this one. As you can see it is a very common problem which is resolvable provided you follow the uninstall instructions and manual patch instructions properly. It happens to all Macs running El Capitan and Sierra.
If after downloading and installing the Origin version of the game you are still getting the error it will be because:
All the help, links and instructions you need are in the opening post of this thread.
Thanks for the move and response. I'll try and see if maybe it's the patch since I already went in and deleted everything manually. Thank you.
