Playing without internet acess the sims 3
I bought the sims 3 and some exansion and stuff packs from my local walmart came home and downloaded them onto my lap top i had to have internet to play but it said it was only for the first time, la...
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Can anyone help? My Internet has cut out, and I can't work out how to log in to Origin offline. When I try to open the Sims without Origin, Origin pops up and won't let me proceed. :-/
It should automatically put you in offline mode if Internet is not present. You still need to login though.
Are you getting an error message ?
I am having the same problem. I cannot log in without internet access, and airplane mode has not worked for me. I hoped that downloading Sims on my new computer (that has no DVD drive) would work, especially after the SimCity fiasco EA suffered through a while back, and I'm pretty disappointed. Are they forcing online startup as some form of DRM?
Thanks for any help.
So you downloaded, installed the game and verified it and then tried to play offline ?
What's your operating system ?
Win 8.1. Newish Thinkpad with great gameplay for other, even more graphics-intensive games. And sometimes, even when I am online, I have to restart the launcher several times before Sims actually plays. I suppose this could be due to my computer, but I certainly don't have this issue with other games or software. Thanks for your help crinrict.
Does the game say you need internet access when you try to play without or what exactly happens ?
I have the same problem. When i start the game without an active internet conection, an error with Origin occurs (UpdateTools.exe).
@felipegaucho11 wrote:
I have the same problem. When i start the game without an active internet conection, an error with Origin occurs (UpdateTools.exe).
Did you try reinstalling Origin ?
@tomthegamingguy: Which problem are you facing when trying to play offline ?
When I have no internet access, I can open Origin (i.e. open Sims 3 and Origin opens) and sign in though it says I am currently offline. Origin opens, saying that I'm offline and further content is online. It does not show the covers of my games, but if I hover over each I can see which is Sims. I open that and the launcher opens. When I press play, my cursor spins for a moment. Then nothing. Sims never opens.
Sometimes it does this when I am online as well, though not recently. I have to relaunch a few times before it catches, as if my alternator is bad! Sometimes it seems like (when online) that the game isn't going to start, but it eventually does. But when I'm offline it never starts.
Again, I have a decent graphics card that has no problems with other games.
- I tried to go into Sims without having connection to the Internet and when I clicked the sims icon, origin didn't pen up add usual what I got instead was a message that windows could not locate an update file of some sort. I rebooted and it then started up just fine but coincidentally my Internet connection had come back by then too. So idk which thing was directly the cause.
So whatever happened to the good old days where you can just buy a game, put it in your computer, install and play it? All these older games now needed verification is just retarted! What if I cant afford the internet? What if I got stationed overseas and bought Sims 3 cause I assumed I could play it as i did years ago?
Ive now spent literally ALL day trying to get my game to run and verify and launch. Havent played since 2012, and Ill bet none of my downloads or saves will even work. I don't even know why I'm wasting my time TBH.
feell the same , I bought several expansions toghether only to find I cant play ofline,, very annoying
