So I bought Parenthood and Seasons in the sims 4 and I regret buying them. I had a great work around of adding in the command line arguments of -disablepacks:EP05,GP05 But now since the the update of 01/22/2021 this no longer works. Does anybody know if origin can just remove them from my game I really don't care if I get my money back I just want them gone. Or did the command line arguments change? Edit By Crinrict: Removed tag from title.

@cherriesandwine1 I heard Origin team is working on a fix for this that should be going out in a future Origin update.

Hello @cherriesandwine1 I'm seeing this issue also, but only when using an account that has a subscription to EA Play. Do you happen to have any other versions of Sims 4 active in your Origin Library? If so, can you try adding arguments to that instead and launching the game from there?Another workaround you can try is to create a shortcut to \Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\TS4_x64.exe (unless you have a shortcut already), open the Properties of that shortcut, go to the Shortcut tab, and add the arguments to the end of the Target field. In the meantime, I'll tell the team about this and have it looked into.

@SimQARobo I cancelled my subscription and bought a copy of the base game instead which has fixed it. Thank you so much.

Hi everyone,I asked in an existing thread but thought making a separate post would be more helpful. Basically I've been using the command line method of disabling packs for ages with no problem, however since (maybe) the release of Paranormal Stuff it has no longer been working. For the save I'm working on I only wanted Get to Work and Outdoor Retreat active so I input this code in Origin: -disablepacks:EP02,EP03,EP04,EP05,EP06,EP07,EP08,EP09,EP10,GP02,GP03,GP04,GP05,GP06,GP07,GP08,GP09,SP01,SP02,SP03,SP04,SP05,SP06,SP07,SP08,SP09,SP10,SP11,SP12,SP13,SP14,SP15,SP16,SP17,SP18 but it isn't working. I have opened a save and everything from every pack is still there.I don't know if these things are relevant but I have updated my game to the most recent update and own every DLC. It's driving me mad as I don't want to have to give up on that save but I need to be able to disable packs to play that one. If anybody could help me I'd be very grateful, thank you.

@cherriesandwine1 As an experiment, could you try only disabling one pack and starting a new save? Try disabling Seasons (EP05), and when you exit CAS, you'll know whether Seasons is active by whether you're asked to choose a season to start in. If Seasons is still active, please move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop and repeat the above. A clean Sims 4 folder will spawn with no content when you launch the game. If that doesn't work either, let me know whether your computer runs Windows or macOS, and whether you have any game optimization software running as well.

Command line arguments not working with EA Play version

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crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@Simjrk59 Command still works fine for me.

Does -w to start in windowed mode still work for you to check if it's all or just the disable packs ?

You can just uninstall the packs: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2015/08/uninstall-single-packs/
Simjrk59
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
Since I already have it set to window mode trying -w did not change a thing but when I changed it back to -disablepacks:EP05,GP05 it still loads Seasons and since I do not intend to play it in that mode I can only guess parenthood is still active too. When I tried to just remove Seasons only it still loaded.
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@Simjrk59 can you try -f for fullscreen mode then ?

Do you have the Origin or Steam version ?
Simjrk59
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
origin
Simjrk59
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
@crinrict I spoke to EA help and they cannot remove any games purchased from the system unless I had returned them within the 24 hour purchase time
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@Simjrk59 You don't need to remove them from the system. Just uninstall them as described in the link (either by uninstalling everything and then not choose to reinstall those particular packs or by deleting the folders (unsupported).

Did you try -f ?
Simjrk59
Seasoned Newcomer
5 years ago
@crinrictDo you know if the command line arguments are available in EA Play (beta)? Although the reload did allow me not to include those 2 packs.
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@Simjrk59 You mean EA Desktop ? Haven't tried it with that.

EDIT: No, they are not in EA Desktop yet.
cherriesandwine
5 years ago
Hi everyone,
I asked in an existing thread but thought making a separate post would be more helpful. Basically I've been using the command line method of disabling packs for ages with no problem, however since (maybe) the release of Paranormal Stuff it has no longer been working. For the save I'm working on I only wanted Get to Work and Outdoor Retreat active so I input this code in Origin: -disablepacks:EP02,EP03,EP04,EP05,EP06,EP07,EP08,EP09,EP10,GP02,GP03,GP04,GP05,GP06,GP07,GP08,GP09,SP01,SP02,SP03,SP04,SP05,SP06,SP07,SP08,SP09,SP10,SP11,SP12,SP13,SP14,SP15,SP16,SP17,SP18 but it isn't working. I have opened a save and everything from every pack is still there.
I don't know if these things are relevant but I have updated my game to the most recent update and own every DLC. It's driving me mad as I don't want to have to give up on that save but I need to be able to disable packs to play that one. If anybody could help me I'd be very grateful, thank you.
puzzlezaddict
Hero+
5 years ago
@cherriesandwine1 As an experiment, could you try only disabling one pack and starting a new save? Try disabling Seasons (EP05), and when you exit CAS, you'll know whether Seasons is active by whether you're asked to choose a season to start in.

If Seasons is still active, please move your entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop and repeat the above. A clean Sims 4 folder will spawn with no content when you launch the game.

If that doesn't work either, let me know whether your computer runs Windows or macOS, and whether you have any game optimization software running as well.