The sims 3 store content not showing up in game
I need some help. The store content I have downloaded is not showing up in my game. I have all the sims 3 expansions. When I install the content, it shows as installed but is not in my game, when I restart the launcher it shows as uninstalled and is still not showing up in my game. On my laptop it works fine, but on my computer with much better specs it is not working. I have reinstalled windows and all my games over and over. Still nothing. I have a brand new graphics card in and all my drivers are working correctly. Do anyone have help for me?
I had this same problem. I'm not sure exactly what I did that fixed it (I tried multiple things). I'll walk you through the steps I took and hopefully they will work for you too 🙂 For (what I believe) the most likely one step solution skip to 6
1. Go into My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims3
2. Copy the entire Sims 3 folder and paste it at a different location (desktop etc) as a backup folder in case something goes wrong.
3. I deleted the following files from My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 (not the backup folder). For more information about these files and the rest
of the files in this folder go to http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_User_Folders_Explained
CasPartCache.package: CAS parts that appear in Create-A-Sim
compositorCache.package: New objects that would appear in Buy/Build mode
scriptCache.package: Mods or Hacks
simCompositorCache.package: New Sims, default skins
socialCache.package.package: Information about the social aspects (Introduced with Patch 1.31
4. Open the Content Patch folder (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The SIms 3/Content Patch) and delete ContentPatch.package.
5. Open the Download Folder (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Content Patch/Download) and delete all of the files ending in .part
6. Open the the folder DCCache just inside of The Sims 3 folder (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/DCCache) and delete all of the files in
here.
7. *I don't remember for sure if I did this or not* Delete all of the files inside of DCBackup (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/DCBackup)
8. Open the launcher and install your downloaded content slowly (5 or 6 files at a time)- not entirely sure if the amount installed makes a difference or
not
9. Play The Sims 3 and see if your DLC is there.
I definitely believe there are extraneous steps here, but when I was troubleshooting mine I just did a lot to be thorough and hope that it worked. I believe one of my caches was corrupted, so if yours isn't this may not work. Hopefully this helps.
Good luck 🙂
