@BonnieLM777 I believe you're the same person who posted on the NRaas site this evening, and the answer is the same as what you already received. There's no point in mixing disc and digital copies anymore. You'll be on patch 1.69 with even one digital download, and the App often doesn't recognize disc-installed copies when they're secondhand, even if the user owns a digital copy as well.
So it's best to let the EA App install everything you own. That way, you won't need to use the discs to play, and you won't risk having the App refuse to recognize your installed packs.
Origin doesn't work in Windows anymore, so that's a dead end. If you did install the very old version of Origin that came with some discs, it would immediately try and fail to update itself, even before installing your content, and then fail and throw an error.
yeah I was, and as I mentioned in my answer there, I don't own all of the digital versions only about 4 of them, and I just wanted to wipe everything and run it from the dvd discs, but it's almost like once I bought the digital copies, it disabled the disc versions of those digital copies on my computer, the discs themselves are fine as I tried them on another computer, but I want to be able to run all EP's and SP's and not just the ones I bought the digital copies for, I checked with a friend of mine this morning and she mentioned she had to re-install Origin to get the discs to work
I did try re-installing Origin but the main issue is that it will no longer detect the base game dvd or any of the dvd's I bought the digital versions for-I tried WA and Pets, but it will detect the other dvds like High End Loft stuff or Seasons, I know the base disc works as I tried it on my mom's computer and it recognized it in the dvd drive, it just will not recognize it on my computer and it worked when I did a complete uninstall and reinstall with the discs 2 years ago, the only difference between then and now was that I got a new video card and installed the EA app
@BonnieLM777 As mentioned, Origin isn't an option anymore, at least not in Windows. For your discs, are there any that you do NOT own in the EA App that are also not detected by your system? If the answer is no, I would suggest installing everything you own within the EA App, then trying to install your remaining disc copies.
However, even if you were to get this to work, it's possible the EA App won't allow these packs to load because you don't own digital copies. It seems to be more strict than Origin in this regard. You can try registering your codes in the App just in case the original owner did not, but I wouldn't count on that working.
If the base game DVD is old enough to not require Origin, you could in theory get an external disc drive and install using that. Instead of spending money, it would be better to borrow one from a friend or family member to see whether it works with your discs. But if your base game copy does require Origin, then this isn't going to help—Origin won't work, so you'll be stuck with the EA App and back where you started.
