@cherriesandwine1 I'm not sure why command line arguments wouldn't work, but I'll ask if anyone else has other ideas. Hopefully someone will have a suggestion for you.
If you don't want to wait, you could unistall the game and reinstall with only the packs you want. Make sure Origin is not set to automatically update your game: hover over your username, select Application Settings, and under Application (the first header), scroll down to Client update and disable auto game updates. When uninstalling, it's a good idea to make a backup copy of the Sims 4 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts—although this folder shouldn't get deleted during the uninstall process, it does occasionally happen. And having a backup is always a good idea.
Origin will still likely try to install your missing packs the first time you load the game to the Main Menu. So when the menu loads, alt-tab back to Origin and cancel the downloads: hover over the Download Manager in the lower left corner and click the X next to each pack.
@cherriesandwine1 You are using Origin to start the game and not start with EA desktop after you entered them with Origin ?
Could you maybe post a screenshot of where you entered it on Origin ?
@crinrict as far as I'm aware I don't have EA Desktop unless that's automatically included in Origin? I've attached a screenshot of it.
EA StaffHello @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 Hi, I do have a subscription to EA play, yes. I don't have any other versions. I have just tried the workaround that you suggested and that didn't work either unfortunately.
EA StaffI heard Origin team is working on a fix for this that should be going out in a future Origin update.
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