Re: Origin/the sims 3 Error 12/13

Origin has a hold of my launcher. I can not open my launcer beacuse of Origin. I have to delete Origin. The new version of Origin is what updates the patch.

My son has an old game in his computer I left click on his TS3 W file this morning and origin took it over to update, Origin is attached to teh TS3w file an the launcher. Welcome to the new version of origin. I am so mad!!!

The patch is fine as in it installed properly in my game but many are reporting new problems in their game since the new 1.67 patch. The patch and orgin update maybe conflicting with each other

PS Caspin seems to usually help with Mac Users

I do know the launcher is not a well liked program and my guess is it may disappear (my guess). Does the launcher work at all? You are correct in that Origin starts up and provides an interface for the patch wizard. The patch has to download and then run. I'm not sure but Origin just may be a pass through to launch the patch.

This whole issue with Origin never use to be. By them doing this it stops my computer from running the game as admin. "Origin" has become admin for the game and wont let my computer be admin. I have no control of the game. Also I must have internet to log into origin so if the internet goes down or origin web goes down we have no wy to play the game off line. People discussed "Origin Offline " mode but the problem is you need an internet connection to log into origin to put it in off line mode in the first place. Any way you look at it you must have an internet connection to play the game at all. This is rediculious!!! I should be able to play my game from desktop if the internet goes down!

I go into origin to down load my games. If I click play game that is already installed the launcer will open. I can get in the game.  It's outside origin I can not download or upload. The launcher will not open. I even tried leaving origin logged in, went to the EA store to downlaod my paid for items and the launcher will not open

The actual patch program is dfc-gorilla and that should start after the download is complete which may be a while as some of these patches are large. Well that's interesting Pocket Soft who wrote (and supported) dfc-gorilla no longer has it on their web site (I remember looking it up some time ago). I've had too many other projects to pay attention. It seems that Pocket Soft dropped the trade mark DFC-Gorilla on 9/28/2012 and is now using RTPatch (have no idea what this means).

Did you try to download from your purchase history with the launcher open? The default program for .sim3pack files should be the launcher.