A few months ago, I purchased the last expansion and couple stuff packs I didn't have via Steam and registered them to Origin. To be able to make the purchases on Steam, I did, of course, also need to purchase the base game. Picked up the pack with Pets, thinking I might eventually get everything on Steam. In the meantime, the base game and Pets codes for Origin have been sitting around on a notepad on my desk, and I had the brainiac idea yesterday to just go ahead and register them, even though I already have registered copies of both.
Fast forward to this morning, my game doesn't start. I get a black screen with spinning circle forever and have to restart computer to make it stop. Looking in Origin, it shows Sims 3 as "new" (also shows all my expansions and stuff) and gives an option to update on base game. Should I update? Should I do something else?
Thanks for any help/tips/advice.
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Looking at it again just now, it appears to have changed my serial code to the new one I put in. Thinking there may be some conflict in my files? Will try pulling my sims 3 documents file and letting it generate a new one.
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Sounds to me like what may have happened is that the new base game registration triggered a patch update on you. Even though you were already on 1.69.something, the Origin silently delivered patch may have been reapplied. Patching, no matter how it's done, can disturb or damage the TS3 user game folder in Documents.
You can't really control "which" game registration Origin uses. What I think you should do from here is keep the new, working game folder and slowly begin copying your content from the older one -- so that's store and custom content (DCCache), mods and package based content, saved sims, installed worlds, until you have enough in place for the saved games to copied over. If your EA Store purchased content in particular no longer works, you many need to redownload it and reinstall it all, a bit at a time, using the Launcher but that would be unusual.
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Yes, you can just dump DCCache and DCBackup if you are starting to build the content up again from scratch. Note that DCCache also contains your sims3pack CC content, so those will need to be reinstalled as well if you go that route. The ebc files are store content, the dbc files are custom.
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