Patch 1.8 FML!!! (yes, 1.8, I went there)
dominno:
I'm about to shoot myself. >:( So here's the deal. For a while I stopped myself from installing the last 1.8 patch because I heard it was trouble, but recently I came to the conclusion that I just might need it (plus I am obsessive compulsive and I had to have it before another one comes out or I buy the new stuff pack). Two days ago I installed said patch and when I tried to open the Sims 3, the launcher said "Unable to connect to the EA Download Manager". I clicked okay but that sent me to the "Game Updates" section of it, telling me "The Version of the game that you are running is incompatible with the data. Please update your game." From then on, it just wouldn't let me run the game.
Frustrated by these events, I tossed my computer aside and now, two days later I returned with enough energy to uninstall The Sims 3 completely. I reinstalled that and WA, and the patches. After I installed each patch, I ran the game and it went smoothly. Until I got back to 1.8 oh yeah. Now we are back to the same shit. I went to the Bin folder and tried to restore it before I added that patch, but I suppose it is too late because it won't work. Do I have to install all of it all over again and simply leave that piece of shit out? What do I do?! I'm pulling my hair out here. Help? If this has been discussed and I didn't find it in my searches, then you can shoot me yourselves, that helps too.
P.S. I've gotten my patches from here. Not sure if it makes a difference but thought I would point it out.
Zazazu:
Your post is offensive to guns, trichotillamaniacs, and wiccans.
First, pinpoint what the exact problem is. Then search the forums. I can guarantee you that someone else has had the same problem and a solution has been posted.
dominno:
Those goddamn wiccans. Fine, thanks.
sewinglady:
Been there, done that. Got the hair loss to prove it.
For some reason, when you re-install, the game doesn't always 'keep' the 1.8 patch between installing the base game and WA. This creates an impossible situation where the game just won't work no matter what you do.
Uninstall the whole shebang again. Make SURE you wipe every last bit of the game out of the registry, etc. (follow the instructions on the EA help site, I know EA sucks, but those instructions don't).
Make sure you also uninstall all vestiges of the EADM. All of it.
Then reinstall the game. Put any custom content you want in the game via the launcher in BEFORE you patch to 1.8. Then patch to 1.8. Now, if I remember right, I had to update my EADM before I patched to 1.8.
There are conflicts with the EADM and Windows 7. Also the latest EADM seems to have a problem with the launcher, and the way around the problem is to physically open the EADM and then open the launcher. Then update the game. This may or may not work because no two loads of any Microsoft product work exactly the same (at least in my personal history with their products).
After you've got the base game patched to 1.8, then install WA and patch to latest vesion (2.3?).
dominno:
Thank you. I'm trying this now. I have Windows Vista but I've still encountered problems with the EADM. It never let me patch my game to 1.8 so I had to do it manually. I'm uninstalling the whole thing now. If only I wasn't dying to play these days. ::)
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