First of all, thank you for attempting to help me.
Since yesterday's post, my game will not even work. I am given the following error once I click on the large play button.. "The game process could not be started."
It was working "fine" yesterday. I saved my game and quit and went on with my life. But as of today, I'm given that error each time I try to play. I've restarted my computer and nothing has changed.
In regards to the earlier issues. I was playing static. If I can get my game to work I'll not play in static mode and see what happens. Thanks for the tip.
My version of the game is interesting. I have a mac and a digital downloaded version of Sims 3 and Sims Supernatural. I think because of this my game has problems patching and updating. I attempted a "super patch (https://help.ea.com/article/problems-patching-the-sims-3) and that allowed me to play the Sims Supernatural for a long while with those issues I mentioned before. ( I didn't get the patch from that website however. The link on the website didn't work. I got it from someone else, meaning someone assisted me and gave me a downloaded version of the patch via this discussion format)
However, my game version says something entirely. 15.0.135.018017
Any ideas what that is? I've been prompted, yesterday, to download a patch. I'm not sure if I patched it or ignored it ( I was clicking quickly). Why fix something that isn't broken? But then maybe I did patch it and now it's broken.
I'm not worried any more about the missing items... the fact that my game refuses to work bothers me quite a lot more. My fear is that I'll have to uninstall this game, lose data, reinstall, etc... Where I live at the moment has horrible internet service... I'll have to drive elsewhere (about 1 hour) to perform the downloading of anything... any ideas what's going on now?
