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    Quick tech query re exp pack

    BadmagicBadmagic Posts: 1,610 Member
    in The Sims 3 Store General Discussion
    Own the original game and a few basic mods, found like many others on re-installing this week if I let it patch it refused to accept the installation of mods along with the official "free" content I had backed up such as Riverview, a Toyota car etc.

    The solution that worked for me was to un-install completely then re-install but simply refuse the auto-update patch.

    By disabling the auto-update the game works along with mods etc as it always did prior to patching but the reason for the post was simply I had ordered the exp pack, I'm presuming it requires the patches so should I just cancel the order now until the vague "we know" statement turns into a "its fixed" statement?

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      slayer1342slayer1342 Posts: 59 New Member
      edited December 2009
      Ty for this post it may have helped me, but i would when i did reinstall i played but my game did not work and i couldn't download anything and i reinstalled everything again and go rid of so many sims files and still the same thing, heck i set my comp back a month and still nothing
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      BadmagicBadmagic Posts: 1,610 Member
      edited December 2009
      Hope it helps you get it working Slayer, back to the thread, anyone know if there is a way to install the exp without it breaking everything? I probably only have about 24 hours left before I can no longer cancel my order.
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      BadmagicBadmagic Posts: 1,610 Member
      edited December 2009
      Oh, forgot to add, not sure precisely what patch killed it, I just let it auto update once so presumable it was the latest as it state it was "up to date".

      Since then I have found a third party page/site for manually downloading each incremental patch, currently getting 1.2.7 and I see later ones differentiates between US and Worldwide, being from the UK I'll work off the presumption we've been lumped in the "Worldwide" ones.

      Can anyone say which/what level of "patch" its "safe" to go up too?

      e.g....

      Retail to v1.2.7
      v1.2.7 to v1.3.2.4
      v1.3.2.4 to v1.4.6
      v1.4.6 to v1.6.6
      v1.6.6 to v1.7.9
      v1.7.9 to v1.8.2.5

      I have read v1.8.2.5 was for the exp owners only so I planned not to apply it so that leads me to believe it was v1.7.9 that borked the game, can anyone say if v1.6.6 creates a conflict in the same way?
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