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Anonymous
12 years ago
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How can you play sims 3 without having to insert the disk.

My daughter has the sims 3 with a few expansion packs on disk.

She has played these on my computer, and having to insert the latest disk to play the game has not been an issue.

She now has her own macbook without the intergrated cd drive, and although we have an external drive, and have put her game and expansion packs on with no problem, we realise it will be a pain to have to travel with the external drive just to play the game.

So, how can she play the game, that she has bought on disk without having to use the disk for authentication.

If downloading a later expansion pack is one way, i would be willing to do this, but would prefer not to have to.

Many thanks.

  • Island Paradise would be the EP to uninstall then.

    Downlaod the client here: http://origin.com/download if you don't have it yet. Login with your account and check myGames. If the games don't show up, register your keys.

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  • You can download the latest expansion pack she has now from Origin for free.

    Just uninstall the disc version and install it from Origin instead. If she registered the game, it should already be in her account.

    If you tell me what expansions she has, I can tell you which one she needs to uninstall/download

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    She has, island paradise, pets, and seasons.

    We had to set up an origin account when she got the base game, but i don't believe any have been registered as yet!

    So, do we have to register the main game and then the expansions, or will they automatically be registered as she has the origin account.

    We dont really use origin or the ea site, so this is the reason for the lack of knowledge.

    Many thanks for the help.

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    crinrict
    Hero+
    12 years ago

    Island Paradise would be the EP to uninstall then.

    Downlaod the client here: http://origin.com/download if you don't have it yet. Login with your account and check myGames. If the games don't show up, register your keys.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    Ok thank you very much. Have not tried this yet but it sounds easy enough.

    Thanks again for your help.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    Worked a treat!!