Game repair?

"Gagea;c-18167565" wrote:
The desktop shortcut is working fine. Deleting the origin cache files didn't help.

Worked for me too.

"Simmerville;c-18167770" wrote:
It's not working for me. Rebooted computer (which took forever to start).
EA, why are you doing this to us, and why are you doing it without even a tiny warning?

I'm not patching my game, meaning I will not be allowed to play? It worked fine last night, today nothing?
I don't want the App either, why would I need it when I prefer to play offline in order to avoid buggy patches? Why should I trust the App on day 1?

PS: Just realized it might be a good idea to backup my game before doing anything. Origin insists on repairing my game the next time I go online.

Jupp…

I thought my old setup was careful but I am going to have talk to my developer husband what my options are. We have discussed different ways of keeping the game on a specific patch from a theoretical standpoint. “ Imagine I mods, what would we do in order to have access to the game during different patches”. Now we are going to get a bit more specific. Virtual machines? I don’t know. It was a nice cup of tea and some fun tech-babble during which I might have understood 1/4 of the details, this will be interesting.

I am on the werewolf-patch. Everything works great. Haven’t seen a single bug. All my mods work without hiccups and I remembered to update Sims 4 studio. This is my little hill and I am staying on it. See no reason for decamping.

"CrazyFrog;c-18168000" wrote:
Now i got a question if there are any EA Beta testers out there... do i have an option to 'repair' the game in that app ?

In the app, when I tried to play offline it said you need to repair your game as there might be a corrupted game. I did so and it kicked me back online as when it was done, the sims 4 icon was up and it said play, so game was patched as well grrr. So now I am stuck. I didn't bother to try to go offline again as damage was done.

This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

"Miricha;c-18168170" wrote:
This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

It might still work with a shortcut. Have you tried that?

"SilentKitty;c-18168172" wrote:

"Miricha;c-18168170" wrote:
This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

It might still work with a shortcut. Have you tried that?

Yup. I've tried both via the Origin interface, and also using the TS4 .exe shortcut on my desktop. Never had this problem before - I pretty much always have my Origin offline, so I can wait until mods etc. are updated before patching my game.

"Miricha;c-18168174" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-18168172" wrote:

"Miricha;c-18168170" wrote:
This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

It might still work with a shortcut. Have you tried that?

Yup. I've tried both via the Origin interface, and also using the TS4 .exe shortcut on my desktop. Never had this problem before - I pretty much always have my Origin offline, so I can wait until mods etc. are updated before patching my game.

It's sure frustrating not being allowed to decide when to patch our game.
I'm glad that both my fave mods were upgraded with the HSY patch and were not affected by yesterday's repair. So, I think the forced patching at least won't cause new problems re mods. At least not mods that were updated recently.

"Miricha;c-18168174" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-18168172" wrote:

"Miricha;c-18168170" wrote:
This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

It might still work with a shortcut. Have you tried that?

Yup. I've tried both via the Origin interface, and also using the TS4 .exe shortcut on my desktop. Never had this problem before - I pretty much always have my Origin offline, so I can wait until mods etc. are updated before patching my game.

Same here, I have played offline several times before and very well know how to achieve this. I wonder why some people seem to be able to still use a shortcut while others can't. I never had problems with the short cut before. But yesterday's origin update just wouldn't let me start up the game as well.

"Simmerville;c-18168179" wrote:

"Miricha;c-18168174" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-18168172" wrote:

"Miricha;c-18168170" wrote:
This just happened to me. I cancelled it and set Origin to offline... and now I can't launch my TS4 game at all. Infuriating.

It might still work with a shortcut. Have you tried that?

Yup. I've tried both via the Origin interface, and also using the TS4 .exe shortcut on my desktop. Never had this problem before - I pretty much always have my Origin offline, so I can wait until mods etc. are updated before patching my game.

It's sure frustrating not being allowed to decide when to patch our game.
I'm glad that both my fave mods were upgraded with the HSY patch and were not affected by yesterday's repair. So, I think the forced patching at least won't cause new problems re mods. At least not mods that were updated recently.

I completely agree, very frustrating. Until know I always updated origin and never had problems but from now on I will never again just trust an origin update.

"CrazyFrog;c-18168212" wrote:

"Atreya33;c-18168095" wrote:

"CrazyFrog;c-18167723" wrote:


EDIT
Hitting Control+R if you have that screen with blank areas instead of games to click on may work. Alternatively the option is in the "Origin" menu, about halfway down the list. (Reload Page)

Control+R helped with the blank squares. For a short moment I thought everything would be all right. But unfortunately that didn't make the game playable. Going offline before booting up origin didn't work, going into offline mode after starting origin with Internet didn't work, a direct short cut to the game did not work either. :(

Okay...lets take a breather here, tbh the best thing i think would be to re-install from scratch if i were you, backup save files, mods and tray folders. It'll be less time lost and your game will run perfect !

The situation has already changed for me. Origin forced me to repair my game and that included the horrible high school years patch. It was either a bugged patch or no game at all. And the damage is done now, aging bug and fears can plague my game from now on.

As for as I know a reinstall will always be with the most recent game version, so that would have lead to the same result.

I had updated my game after they fixed the aging bug in August and bought and downloaded HSY through Origin. I played after that and everything was fine. But when I tried to go into Origin late last night It said there was a server error. My games didn’t show up either. I closed out and restated my computer, but it still said server error when I went into Origin. I have a sims 4 shortcut on my desktop, so I went in that way and my game worked fine ( even got gallery things pop up from the internet ). I know other people have got this server error too, so it must be something wrong with Origin.

Has anyone noticed Origin fixed yet?

It's not fixed yet, they are still working on it.