@HappyEsmee01 Did switching to the EA App work for you?
I've been having the same issue for the past two weeks. The Supernatural expansion is the only one that won't install. I've switched back and forth between Origin and the EA App and both give downloading errors when I try to install it. Is there anything else I can try?
@LoreGalore There has recently been an EA-side issue with downloading certain products, but it's supposed to have been solved as of about four hours ago (at the time of my writing this). So please check back now and see whether you can download Supernatural. If not, clear the cache for Origin or the EA App, whichever you want to use, and try again.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/
If that doesn't help, let me know so I can flag this.
@puzzlezaddict Thank you for getting back to me! These are the steps I've tried with no success. I cleared Origin cache and tried to redownload Supernatural and got the error. I then uninstalled Origin and used CCleaner to clear my registry. I reinstalled the EA App and tried the download again...still an error but I also noticed the EA App says I have two copies of Movie Stuff when I don't. And when I do try to install Supernatural on the EA App it acts like it's going to redownload the Sims 3 base game again as well...which could be normal, I'm not used to this app. After the error, I uninstalled the EA App, cleared my registry again and reinstalled Origin because I'm more comfortable there. I tried to download the expansion one more time and got the same error. I'm at a loss at what to do now. Thanks again for the help.
@LoreGalore When you cleaned your computer's registry, did you by any chance also delete any registry entries related to the Sims 3 base game? If so, that may be why the EA App tried to download the game a second time. It's normally supposed to recognize the games Origin has already installed, but without the registry entries, and with the game likely not being in the EA App's defaul install location (you can see it's EA Games rather than Origin Games), the App may not have found it.
I'm also curious whether the game launches at all at this point.
Anyway, at this point, I'd usually suggest uninstalling the entire game and reinstalling to a different folder than the one it's currently in, preferably a new folder you create yourself (e.g. C:\Games). But if this is one lingering symptom of the partly-resolved EA-side download issues, you may not be able to reinstall the game at all, at least not until EA fixes this problem completely. I don't know when that will be.
Do you have access to a different computer where you could test? It would be useful to confirm whether the issue was particular to your system.
@puzzlezaddict Hello again! I only removed items from the registry that had to do with Origin and the EA app only. The game with the rest of the dlc does launch and play really well with no issues so far over the past three days. Earlier I asked my sister to login to my account to see if she could try to download Sims 3 + Supernatural only and she had the same issue with Supernatural so it's a relief it's not my system. I'm nervous about uninstalling/reinstalling the whole series again...I'd rather have some Sims dlc than none but I will definitely try it again soon.
That's what happened to me between yesterday and today. Just installed EA app. The EA app thinks I have 2 of two stuff packs and 2 of one Expansion pack so I had to go in and uncheck the "duplicates" so they wouldn't cause an error during download. It worked BUT now there is one stuff pack that refuses to download and has given me error messages for the last day. I got everything Sims 3 to download except Fast Lane Stuff. If I uninstall and try to reinstall the whole of my Sims 3 collection then it will stop at Fast Lane Stuff which is why I left it out from the add-ons checklist to make sure everything else worked. That being said, I still haven't tried to boot the actual game or copy over any of my save files since I'm nervous about all these error messages and paused downloads.
@NineDog That's a good idea, but I'm not comfortable editing someone else's post myself. I'll flag this and ask someone from EA to do it.
As you undoubtedly know, there isn't much info about this issue anyway.
