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Anonymous
13 years ago

Problems!!! HELP OR IMMA KILL SOMEONE WITH A BLUNT KNIFE

my friend and i have been trying to fix my sims 3 game all day and nothing is working

Lately my game has been closing randomly mainly during edit my sim, etc. I do have a lot of custom content.

We decided to uninstall sims 3 and all my exapnsion packs (showtime,late night, seasons, ambitions, katy perry, generations and world adventures) We have reinstalled sims 3, late night and ambitions. It has also been saying that an update is required which we have updated several times but it still keeps saying it needs an update! We have been trying to uninstall all my custom content that was saved and its not uninstalling, it gets to the loading bit then completes but doesnt go off the list. And with trying to install custom content it doesnt show up on installed list. Weve tried playing the game but it gets to the main loading page then goes black and crashes. Weve tried everything, restarted computer several times all of that. Someone please help me right now or i will go on a killing spree with blunt knifes.

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  • Panther559's avatar
    Panther559
    13 years ago

    Don't do that because life won't end right for you, just for a game. 😕mileywink:

    Well, you recognized your problem possibility. Now, it's just getting it out of your folder. What folder is your mods in? Are you using the new way, or the old way? IN other words, are they in your Program Files, or My Documents, assuming you are using a desktop, not MAC.

    If they are in program files, then you need to actually use the new way, which is creating folders in this path, (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods/Packages) and place ALL of your custom content, as .package files, in there. If they are sims3pack files, they should automatically go into the Downloads folder, so that shouldn't be a problem.

    Next I would say let your game re-create the entire game file without reinstalling. Try that first and update post. Take out the entire The Sims 3 folder from the My Documents path, DON'T DELETE IT YET, and put in somewhere temporarily, then load your game again. That will actually generate an entirely new game, minus the CC. So, if it is a problem with that, you will know from this.

    Do that first, and if it doesn't fix it, then we'll try something else. Hope this stops you from killing!! 😕mileyvery-happy:

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Sorry, but i do not understand any of that... english please? 😉

  • HaiAshlee's avatar
    HaiAshlee
    13 years ago

    Is the custom content .Sims3pack or is it .package?

    I had the similar problem.

    If you have a mods folder, delete it. 

    Do not install .package files. 

    It slows down your game start up. 

    My game works perfectly fine now. 

    I have .sims3pack stuff installed ( stuff that directly gets installed into launcher.)

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