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Anonymous
11 years ago
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No Electronic Arts Folder?! Windows 8.1

Ok, prepare for a long story. I have spent over 2 days installing and trying to find my Electronic Arts folder. I had an old computer with broken keys and got a new one in time. In August. I decided to finally install Sims 3. I currently have

-Base Game

-Diesel

-Generations

-High End Loft Stuff

-Island Paradise

-Late Night

-Seasons

-Showtime

-University Life

and

-World Adventures.

So basically. The game runs fine and smoothly, But I installed mods but they don't show up or verify that I have them in the game. So the folder is in the wrong spot. With Windows 8.1. I am patched up to 1.67 but there is no "electronic arts" folder AT ALL. I have spent 2 days looking all over online for where to find it. I have looked in 

Windows (C🙂>Origin Games>Sims3>Game>Bin
But nothing helpful. When I did find the docs for Sims 3. They were all out of folders in a sub doc with no name(just said documents) and I had to search for it. I figured why not name in Electronic arts and drop my mods folder there... None of the mods or CC i had showed up in the game. Which is making me grumpy because it seems as if nobody has this problem. The game runs fine. But no folders and it is all confusing. 

I found the scattered docs in 

OneDrive>Documents

Then I named one of the documents "Electronic Arts" and basically took out nothing related to Sims 3, and popped my mods in there.

There is nothing in:
-IGACache

-Installed

-Saves

-DCBackup

-SigsCache

-Installed Worlds

-Recorded Videos

-Downloads

-Exports

-Screen Shots

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Basically 3 folders have stuff in it which is

-Thumbnails

-Bridgeport.sims3

-Bridgeport.sims3.backup

And Mods, but I put that there.

.. I really need help and If you need more information on my problem I can help 🙂
I am just tired of not having CC or mods :P

  • You can play, right ?

    What you can try is this: Create a new save game and give it a very unique name like WhereIsMyFolder or something along these lines. Save that.

    Then search your computer for that file name and the place where you find it, that's the folder the game uses.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    I did that and it shows that I do have an electronic arts folder, but I can not locate it... 

    Update: Okay. I saved the game and when I went on to test it. It was delted. It did this each time. It also says "Unreconized game card" 

    I checked my deviceConfig.log and the number was at 0, so I read about it on your website and My game card is to new. I tried to fix it and I will update to see if that fixed anything 🙂

    Update 2: Perfect! I did the steps on the sims 3 wiki that was linked on your website and it worked. I no longer get the message and my game saves. But I still don't get CC. I will try to work on that though.

    I got it to work finally! Yay!

    Thank you! Crinrict!

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