Re: my sims 3 game is broken
@woogeyeehaw The reason I asked about the source is because there's a way to manually patch disc installs, but doing so on an Origin/Windows install will either do nothing or break the game. You're not the only one with this issue in the last few days, but so far there's no reliable solution yet. However, I can offer a couple of suggestions, and hopefully one will work for you.
First of all, please check to make sure your Access subscription is still live. If it's been cancelled for whatever reason, you won't be able to play Sims 3. If it is active, open your game library, right-click on the Sims 3 icon, and select Repair. Restart your computer and try to play.
If that doesn't help, try clearing Origin's cache. The next step would be to clear the cache again and then uninstall Origin "the hard way" an reinstall.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/manually-uninstalling-origin/
If this doesn't work either, uninstall Origin (the hard way again) and TS3, and then clean your computer's registry of all TS3-related entries. You can do this manually or with a tool like Piriform's CCleaner. If you have saves you'd like to preserve, start by pulling your game folder out of Documents\EA and onto your desktop. It's a good idea to rename it too, so that the cleaner app doesn't delete it. Once your registry is clean, you can reinstall both Origin and the game.
Please let me know whether any of these steps worked. Even if they didn't, that's good information to have, and I'll try to get someone from EA to look into this as well.