EA store stuff in *.dbc format - a torrent
Rainbow_Brite:
So last night I decided to take out my .dbc files out of my documents and just have them in mods/packages folder and my game loaded fine :) I was feeling brave so I copied the .dbc files that I had originally moved to my packages folder back to my documents and decided to add all of my .sims3packs to the downloads folder. I then ran the launcher. It popped up that I had new downloads yadda yadda so I installed them. Again, after the launcher completed installing the files, I removed the .dbc files out of my docs and put them back into my packages folder. Not only did it work, but I now have all of the store content and most of my 3rd party cc in my game (I noticed that 4 files did not install with the launcher but everything else worked great) I have 4 .dbc files with a combined total of 1GB and my game loads in less than 3 minutes :) Again, I only have the .dbc files in my packages folder :)
I'm not sure if anyone else has tried this but it worked for me :)
morriganrant:
I have the .dbc files only in the folder in Mods. They work fine. I have also renamed them to have Store in the name. I've used the launcher and allowed it to install Sims3packs, then took those .dbc files and did the same. This way I can keep up with what is in where in case something stops working and trouble shooting should be easier. I have one .dbc that is nothing but CycloneSues stuff. Loading is quite swift.
witch:
Do the files in the mod folders have to be the same name as the files in the DCCache folder? i.e. if you have store1.dbc in one place, does it need to be store1.dbc in the other place?
This is really useful information, I haven't tried renaming the files because I haven't bothered downloading custom content for this game yet - bar a few patterns - but for organisational purposes it's great.
TheSimsandwich:
Quote from: witch on 2009 December 28, 11:18:53
We've only got the one cable to NZ, we have to share nicely. ::)
I'm sure Key will sort that one out. Yeah Right.
morriganrant:
Quote from: witch on 2010 January 08, 09:14:06
Do the files in the mod folders have to be the same name as the files in the DCCache folder? i.e. if you have store1.dbc in one place, does it need to be store1.dbc in the other place?
This is really useful information, I haven't tried renaming the files because I haven't bothered downloading custom content for this game yet - bar a few patterns - but for organisational purposes it's great.
I only have one copy of the DBC files. As in I have dcdb0Store.dbc, dcdb1Store.dbc, dcdb2Store.dbc, I changed only the end of the name in case I had to change them back or in case the dcdb part of the file name was necessary. I have them placed in my DCCache folder in Mods only, The Sims 3 World Adventures\Mods\DCCache, and do not have any placed in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\DCCache. Everything appears to be there near as I can tell. I have some memory issues so it's hard for me to tell if anything could be missing, but enough of it is there to make me think that it all is. I installed a bunch of CycloneSue's items and have a file that is dcdbCycloneSue.dbc hat I have also placed in DCCache in Mods, and all of those files that I installed appear to be there. It might be worth mentioning that for everything that I installed via the launcher I kept and renamed the .idx and also placed it in Mods. I never could find anyone saying exactly what this file was or did and wanted to keep it just in case. The only issue that appears to happen with this method is the uninstalling of one individual file, I can't figure out how to do it.
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