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11 years ago

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installing sims 3 onto a new computer?

So about a year ago i got the Sims 3 and isntalled it onto my home computer and my laptop with no problems. Now my home computer is very old (it was old when i installed the sims on it) and i want to get rid of it. I also want to instal Sims 3 onto my new computer, but this violates the "two computers per game" rule. So i uninstalled The Sims 3 from my old home computer, but my new computer doesn't recognize that my sims game no longer is on the old computer and still says i can't install it.

If anyone knows how to fix this, that would really help me. Thanks!

technical issues

Anonymous
11 years ago
Approved
you now need origin to play the game, install origin https://www.origin.com/en-us/download
I have my game on more tha one computer. My son and I both have same game installed on our own computers

4 Replies

Anonymous
11 years ago
Approved
you now need origin to play the game, install origin https://www.origin.com/en-us/download
I have my game on more tha one computer. My son and I both have same game installed on our own computers
mk3523
11 years ago
Thank you so much!
scoots_magoots1
4 years ago
I have Origin and was able to install the expansion pack (Seasons), but it won't let me play until the original Sims is installed. I tried entering the code in, but I had already installed the code on another (old) computer and it won't let me register that same code on my new laptop... How can I get the game on my new computer since I am not going to be using it on my old computer??
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
4 years ago
@scoots_magoots13 Once a product code has been registered in Origin, it can't be used again. But you should be able to download the base game from whichever account you used to register Sims 3 in the first place. If you're not sure what account you used back then, contact EA customer support for help.

https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/