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6 years ago

Sims 3 Visual Problems

(All of my sims 3 expansions and base game are disks). I was playing the sims 3 and everything was working fine. Then I downloaded the generations expansion, and this happened on the town screen. So far that's the only visual problem I'm experiencing. I'm running windows 10 on a gaming pc. I don't think I have a graphics card, but if anyone needs any specs to help, I can post them. The game isn't unplayable, it's just quite annoying. I'd be really grateful if anyone could help, because I can't find anything online.

technical issues

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
6 years ago
@eleanxr_dunkin The Super Patch is a tool released by EA that manually patches your game to 1.67, the highest patch level for disc installs. The way the launcher was built, it doesn't handle large amounts of data very well, and it often fails to properly patch even though it will report that it succeeded.

I linked the post where you can download the Super Patch earlier in this thread.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/175477/official-ea-download-link-for-the-sims-3-cumulative-manual-update

The direct download link (to EA servers) is directly below "Cumulative Base Game 1.67.2 Super Patcher for The Sims 3" in that post.
eleanxr_dunkin
6 years ago
I bought a new version, and I have now registered it on origin. I don't have the expansions now tho. Should I still install the patch?
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
6 years ago
@eleanxr_dunkin You didn't need to buy a new version—that was completely unnecessary and makes things more complicated. If the game doesn't launch, you'll need to uninstall it, clean the registry of TS3-related entries with a tool like Piriform's CCleaner (free download), and then download the Origin version. Don't apply the Super Patch, as it will break the install if you can get it to run.
eleanxr_dunkin
6 years ago
If anything, the new version runs more smoothly. I didn't download the disk version from the disk, I entered the game code on origin and downloaded it from there.