Re: Sims 3- how many games exist?

Hi again! I've been nagging and nagging my dad to fix this internet on my computer. I tried plugging in my cellphone into my significant others laptop, and the  internet worked perfectly fine! I was on any site, no problems. Now , I try here at home, but my computer gives a bunch of error messages. It won't let me download Chrome, which it says it needs. I don't know what to do further. I really want to give that computer info for you. I didn't forget. Lol. Would you able to give advice? Would it help if I uploaded a few pictures of the error messages ?

@pinkgirlforyou  You probably don't need Chrome; there are other browsers you can download instead.  (I mostly use Firefox myself.)  The issue with Chrome may be that your computer hasn't had any updates in a long time, seeing as how it's not usually connected to the internet.  So the current version of Chrome may not be compatible with your computer's older operating system files.

I'm not sure why your computer thinks it needs Chrome, unless you set it as the default browser at some point.  You should have Internet Explorer on your system, no matter which version of Windows you have, and all the newer ones have Edge as well.  They're not great, but they should let you download a better browser.  Just type in either name in the box in the lower left corner of your screen, and the app will pop up.  Then you can download Firefox or Opera.  There's also a variant of Firefox called Waterfox, which is an earlier version but with updated security; this runs well on older systems.  But even if you can't get any other browser, Explorer will work in a pinch.

And sure, if you want to upload pics of the error message, that's fine, but it's not necessary unless you can't get any other browser to work at all.

By the way, the term "patch" is preferable to "upgrade" because many patches aren't really upgrades in that they don't change how an app is supposed to work.  A patch might fix a glitch or a security flaw; not all of them introduce new features.  So "patch" covers any new data that should be added to an application's program files.

For TS3 in particular, there were many patches added on to the base game, and the code for later packs was written with the assumption that the packs would be installed on a computer with a fully patched base game.  For example, I believe that Island Paradise was released shortly after patch 1.55 (I could be wrong about the number), and it wouldn't work properly with a base game that was still on patch 1.27 or something.  But earlier discs were released long before the later patches, so of course their code doesn't take those patches into account.

It's therefore necessary to make sure a disc install is fully patched before you try to run the game.  The TS3 launcher was supposed to take care of the patching process, but it's kind of fragile and doesn't handle that kind of load very well.  So EA made an app called the Super Patch that does the job instead.  It's much more efficient and doesn't fail like the launcher so frequently will.

For the dxdiag, while I'd love to read the whole thing, you could start by copying the most relevant information into a post here.  This guide covers how to read a dxdiag, but it shows where you can find that info:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Academy/How-to-read-a-DXDiag/td-p/3325775

I'd specifically like to know your operating system, system model, processor, and memory (first screenshot of the initial post); card name, dedicated memory, current mode, monitor model, native mode, and driver date (second screenshot); and free and total space (this is shown in the screenshot in the fourth post, but it'll be below Sound Devices and PS/2 Devices, so you'll need to scroll for a bit).