It's great that you were able to solve your issue.
Do you know which of the solutions worked for you ? If so, it would be great to answer to this thread with the solution and accespt it as such so the next person knows what helped you.
In the end I went to this page and downloaded the super patch - I had tried to download a superpatch from here but I just kept getting a 403 error message.
I'm not sure if it was just the super patch that resolved the issue or a combination of things so I'll tell you everything I ended up doing:
1. I turned off my anti-virus (was still unable to install 1.67)
2. I had found a patch version 1.50 and I was able to install this one (my version was 1.42) so this made me think perhaps I needed to upate incrementally manually
3. I installed patch version 1.55 but still unable to install 1.67 so I went hunting for some more patches in between 1.55 and 1.67 that's when I found the page with the super patch
4. I installed the super patch as advised on that page but then was unable to load the launcher
5. Rebooted my PC and hey presto, although now when I click the Sims3 icon it loads Origin and from there I go to my Games and click Play on Sims3 🙂
Thanks for those steps.
Weird that one link gives you a 403 error and the other works. I've double checked my super patch link and it's exactly the same as on that Help page. Guess I don't need to understand this.
In looking at the url for error I got on the first load, it's checking for login and giving the 403 for negative status. So people need to login to follow the first link correctly to get the super patch.
