Is it possible to play Sims medieval on Steam - or any other way!
Is it possible to play Sims Medieval on Steam? Or any other way for that matter - I didn't buy it when it came out (had to choose between that and the latest sims EP/stuff packs) but I now have more budget. And a new laptop, but one with no integral disc drive, and I'm seriously not techno-savvy! Any help would be much appreciated. I don't want to play a pirate version, which is all I've found out about so far.
I just checked on Steam and couldn't find it with a search. I looked it up in the EA App store but it only shows my bought copy. I searched online for availability to purchase May 2023 on EA App and it brought me to the Sims Medieval and looked like you could purchase it. Also saw that if buy the game it is possible to use the code to use on EA App. Search online shows game you can buy on sites like Amazon. I would try the EA App first as it might be available there still, I just couldn't tell because of already owning it.
I can't get it to work in windows 11. The error says it's because origin is not installed. I was able to run it without any tweaks on a computer with the same cpu in windows 10 but origin was installed when I set it up last time.
"Decadesimmer1976;c-18284363" wrote: I really hope they add a sims 4 medieval expansion pack it was such an amazing. Hoping we get it??
I heard a kit is on its way, but medieval could easily be a whole EP if they added a whole world and a time-travel feature. Instead of cracking the screen on the smartphone during time-travel, (making several of us wish for the old phone back after returning from time travel), the apps displayed on the smartphone in Sims 4 should change: either grey-out the ones that would not work with no cell phone service, and show a new time-travel app, or have a switch between the smartphone and the time-travel device. (The switch also could be useful if travelling to other periods of time later.
Such as the 1970s - when there was no social media, no cell phone service, nor publicly available internet, nor even home computers. (The first home computer was introduced in the late 1970s). Instead of cell phones, there were telephone booths. Or if that scares you, perhaps the 1980s. Only the rich had pagers and cell phone service. Everyone mostly played text games and 8-bit computer games on their home computers and consoles. But the internet was still not publicly available until the late 1980s, and only by dial-up modem. Web pages were all text. And the home computers did not all speak to each other. There were more than 5 different operating systems in common use. TRS-80, Commodore, IBM-PC/DOS, Apple Macintosh, just to name some. (In the early 90s, the operating systems had narrowed down to just PC and Mac, the internet was now publicly available via dial-up services like AOL or various electronic bulletin board systems. But most people only had access to text browsers, and dial-up was too slow to load full-screen pictures, unless you were willing to eat dinner then come back to check the page.) Non-smartphone cellphones began to gain popularity in the 90s.
I managed to get it to work on EA (formerly Origin) with Power Shell, but I can't put in the testing cheats, so the game isn't as much fun to play right now :(
One thing to keep in mind is that both Sims Medieval and Sims 3 were made for older graphics cards and CPUs. Thus, the game gets confused and does not load if it detects a graphics card not in its database. I haven't been able to launch Sims 3 from the Sims 3 launcher, and so am currently looking for a way to bypass this launcher to load the game directly. There are a couple script fixes out there, one that worked for me, the other that did not. The one that worked was designed to run, just before running the game. With that fix, you can run the launcher, then when the script tells you to, run the game from the launcher.
I also even tried some substitute launchers that were modded to add features (like toggles not included in the original launcher from EA). Unfortunately, those did not work any better than the original launcher. (Hit play game on the launcher app and nothing happens.) Problem is the security features in modern operating systems. I had the same issue trying to install Sims 2 on my Windows 10 computer. On Windows 10, unless you run the first program as admin, it cannot run any other programs. On Windows 11, even if you run the first program as an admin, it may load one program (we'll call this "child" app to trace the links) but the child app cannot run another child app. Somehow, they bypassed this issue on Origin, but not on the EA games app. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So basically, Windows 11 is trying to run EA games app, which runs the launcher, which tries and fails to run Sims 3. (Sims 3 never runs from the launcher - absolutely nothing happens but it thinks the game is running). Unfortunately, this leaves Steam or scripts (that add newer machines to the database manually on a temporary basis) as the only way to play since Steam is functional now that some back-end work was completed to point the Steam app to the EA app instead of the Origin app. Since Steam runs before it loads the EA app and then the launcher, possibly it is already injecting the new data into the old database for Sims 3.
However, if you bought your expansion packs on the EA app instead of in the Steam app, they will not work when you run Sims 3 from the Steam app. And if you try to install both the EA play version of Sims 3 and the Steam version of Sims 3, you will completely confuse your computer since apparently they use the same registry areas for the base game. In short, if you buy your base game on Steam, you have to buy all your DLC from Steam. If you buy your base game on the EA app, you have to buy all your DLC on the EA app.
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