Dlc wont work after linking steam and EA account

I linked my steam and ea account yesterday, and now every time I try to play the sims, it tells me that a "restart is required to use dlc". I have repaired the game through the ea app, uninstalled it and reinstalled it, restarted my computer several times, and even manually restarted the ea app through task manager. Nothing has worked and I don't want to loose access to my saves because of dlc issues and I want to use the stuff I have paid for. I have 11,271 hours in the sims and have never had an issue with dlc before like this. It worked fine the last time I played a week or so ago.