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"Your download has been Paused."
All right. I’ve just escaped a brutal work load over the past month and came back to give Sims 4 another go now that I’ve heard pools are back in. Problem! I load up origins and try to update Sims 4, but result in the error message: "Origins needs to download files and is waiting for permission. Please choose "yes" when windows prompts you for permission." Only windows never prompts me for anything. The download just cancels. I’ve researched this issue now. One suggest was to try reinstalling Origin. Another was to try repairing the game. A third was making sure my game had Administrator privilege over my computer’s security protection. I’ve done ALL of these, I’ve tried each of them. They’ve not worked. At this point I’m considering trying to uninstall and reinstall Sims 4 completely, but I’m concerned I won’t even be able to re-download the game at this rate! Can anyone help me out with this, give me some clue what I need to do in order to play the game again?
Try if it works if you do a clean boot: http://help.ea.com/en/article/how-to-clean-boot-your-pc/
Also, you said you made sure you had admin priviledges, does that mean you stared Origin as administrator ?
