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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Says it cant start because missing or damaged game data

I bought a sims key code yesterday afternoon, installed the sims, but now whenever I press play, it says I am missing or have damaged files, yet whenever I press repair, it doesn't change anything. I...
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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    To anyone else having this problem: Do you have an in-home server?

    I do have one, which stores a bunch of my stuff, so half of my game was installed on the server, while the other half on my computer. Thats the reason it kept saying that I am missing data. All you have to do is make another local administrator on your computer.

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sammoyke
11 years ago

I got the same error and it ended up being a simple cc problem, remove custom content , retry if it works its just a corpupt cc remove the last few items you downloaded one at a time till you find the culprit, best of luck

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Anonymous
10 years ago

My cc was the problem as well. I just deleted the four most recent cc that I got since the game stopped working, and it worked! Thanks for the help!

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