Ok. Fed up. I've done everything I can do to try and get this game to work. I even just installed the base game and allowed it to do all the updates from the launcher it prompted me to do before loading it.
It crashed at the point in the tutorial when you have a sim sit on the couch.
This makes no sense at all. I've tried uninstalling everything and as soon as I apply the new update, the whole thing crashes. No matter what order I install and at what point I update. Trust me, I've done it about 6 times now.
My last attempt went as follows:
Base game disc installed. Opened the launcher, clicked the updates and it prompted me to update. Here's where it went hairy. LOL It opened the origin installer ( the green and grey install window) after which it opened a install shield wizard that said "The InstallShield Wizard is updating (1.00.631) of The Sims 3 to version 1.31.118.
I then loaded the launcher. Another update prompt which installed via origin again (the green and grey load window)followed by yet another intall shield wizard which went from 1.31.118 to 1.32.3.
Then The Sims 3 Update window popped up (this one is grey with dark blue bars) and says something along the lines of "dfc - gorilla by Pocket Soft Inc. Copyright 2003-2009 Pocket Soft, Inc."
At this point I am no longer getting update prompts from the launcher, so I hit play. It is base game with a Showtime load screen. Hmmmm. I haven't installed showtime. (I wonder if people just purchasing base game will have the same results...) It allowed me to log in at the main menu. And just beneath the log in it says "Register you game!" I did, I just did it on a new Sim profile, which I made for my son (who has been happily playing all of my eps and stuffs on the desktop since friday). I load Sunset Valley and go through the tutorial, all seems fine UNTIL I get to the point where I tell my sim to sit on the newly placed couch (as directed by the tutorial) and bam. Crash to desktop.
Now I plan to install Showtime. I want to see if that will fix the conflict. Seeing as how the game has a Showtime load screen. We Shall see.
Edit: I only keep posting my attempts hoping that the programmers can get an idea of what some of us are doing and what is and isn't working.
