Why Does the Launcher Still Say Unauthorized??!
phyllis_p:
This appears to solve the problem. I'm not sure why.
wofitz:
That's very...odd but thank you! I'm just re-installing now so lets hope it works. Thank you.
Avi:
Quote from: wofitz on 2009 June 03, 18:09:58
Quote from: Avi on 2009 June 03, 15:31:59
I had this problem too at first until I completely uninstalled, used CCleaner and deleted a few things in the registry. Then I reinstalled it and it was happy.
Do you know what needs removing from the registry? I want to install the actual game (I did have an arr'd version but got the game free so...may as well have the official version) and it keeps telling me it's a unofficial version and blahblah. I've found it in the registry and deleted the 'The Sims 3' folder. Is that all that needs removing? I've run the CCleaner to clean up my registry as well. I want to make sure that is all the needs doing before re-installing to find I need to go through it all again.
I deleted the Launcher cache from there so maybe that's why it worked? I also had CCleaner clean out all my Internet files and temp. files as well like phyllis_p mentioned, though so it might have been that over what I deleted in the Registry but I don't think so. For some reason it didn't delete the Launcher cache as I was still able to find it in the registry after running CCleaner and had to delete it manually.
More specifically this: Cachepath c:\ProgramData\Electronic Arts\EADM\cache
CCleaner did not delete those files that I had to go in the registry to delete them manually . . . Which made me hella nervous to be honest.
Delete everything that says The Sims 3, EAL (where I found the cache registry) and EA Core if you have that. Just be careful; you might want to back up your registry beforehand before attempting this . . . I'm not responsible for any borkination of your PC or game!
Scotty:
Well, it worked for me. I hated deleting my cookies, but it's better than reinstalling the whole friggin game again. I can mess with the registry, but I just HATE doing it. That would be a last resort for me.
lzimbu:
But you don't need to wipe and reinstall
Pointing to the leak being viral marketing, the game just updates the leaked version to retail.
I took the precausion of packaging and renaming the documents folder and left everything else in place.
Once the update finished, all was gold. no muss or fuss.
Pity the game crashes though. Hope that gets patched.
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