Error Code 196620:0

I've been trying to redownload Sims 3 for three days, and every time I try to, I get a pop-up saying "An unexpected error has occured. Please try again in a few moments. Error: 196620:0." I've allowe...

technical issues

crinrict
12 years ago
Here's another suggestion I found

@erneborg wrote:

I had the same problem with downloading games. I tried all different suggested actions but nothing worked.

Then I tried do the download in safe mode with networking and it worked!!

Gamsk

12 years ago

Yes safe mode will work, however, it's awfully agrivating.. specially when I'd love the downloads to occur in the background when I can work on other stuff.

I'll add that this issue only appeared for me when I added a router between my PC and the Cable Modem.

I'd like EA to provide instructions to completely remove and reinstall Origin so that I don;t have to resort to Safe Mode.

crinrict

Hero+

12 years ago

The instructions can be found here: https://help.ea.com/article/manually-uninstalling-origin