Sims 4 Limited Edition - Disc installation
Have purchased the Sims 4 Limited edition and am trying to install from the discs, there are two discs, put in disc 1 and it wants me to create an origin account which I have done and then it starts ...
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I've just spent about 2 hours on this frustrating issue! Purchased disc version and followed instructions but it kept going into download of game - not install or copy from disc. Looked on another forum and tried a number of suggestions, finally the one which worked was to click on downloading game and select cancel (I had seen that option before but was too scared to go through with cancelling due to message that I'd lose all downloaded data so far).
Anyway, cancelled download, went back to My Computer,clicked on DVD drive, then clicked setup.exe
Took me to Origin login again, but once back in, I was able to select language and then install.
Turns out that even copying from disc is taking a while but at least no where near as long as downloading, and of course not using my download allowance.
Anyway, cancelled download, went back to My Computer,clicked on DVD drive, then clicked setup.exe
Took me to Origin login again, but once back in, I was able to select language and then install.
Turns out that even copying from disc is taking a while but at least no where near as long as downloading, and of course not using my download allowance.
i have windows 8.1 and origin and purchased disks. i put in first one then doubleclicked on dvd to start installation because the game didn't autorun screen came up. then a window came up asking for product code then it started to copy from disk if it starts to download cancel that and click start on disk. it start copying game to origin. you might want to try going offline in origin. that has helped for some. after copying it updated and then installed the game.
to update game after it is installed right click on game in origin then select check for update.
This worked after many hours of frustration, thankyou
YAY!!! glad it worked
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@ozstaceylou wrote:This worked after many hours of frustration, thankyou
How did you get it to work?
@dandg6 wrote:
I've just spent about 2 hours on this frustrating issue! Purchased disc version and followed instructions but it kept going into download of game - not install or copy from disc. Looked on another forum and tried a number of suggestions, finally the one which worked was to click on downloading game and select cancel (I had seen that option before but was too scared to go through with cancelling due to message that I'd lose all downloaded data so far).
Anyway, cancelled download, went back to My Computer,clicked on DVD drive, then clicked setup.exe
Took me to Origin login again, but once back in, I was able to select language and then install.
Turns out that even copying from disc is taking a while but at least no where near as long as downloading, and of course not using my download allowance.
You are my new best friend. I was getting so frustrated I was about to return the game.well I would've done the same thing except it doesn't let me cancel or pause HELP! :womansad:
Why doesn't it let you cancel ? What happens if you try ?
