Forum Announcement, Click Here to Read More From EA_Cade.
we are unable to verify sims 3 pets ....***
drowssap
Posts: 2,007 Member
i have been playing sims 3 pets all last night, i bought it yesterday! after this whole waiting for update stuff, im really getting fed up, i tried to launch it 3 times now to have "we are unable to verify sims 3 pets"
why am i getting this message :x
why am i getting this message :x
0
Comments
Just keep restarting the game until it goes away. I know I sound like EA here but that's the only thing I can suggest. You can try repairing the disc but I totally forgot how. I'll try and see if I can find it, but this isn't anything to worry about that much
Jessica
Exception raider: Unhandled page fault on read to 0x0000009c at address 0x007a76b8. Do you wish to debug it? no/ yes.
Then I hit yes and nothing happens?
Basically it would appear to be a problem with Cider needing more 'space' than your Mac has available. Pets, and the related patch, are making Cider very inefficient, so it will try to access memory that should be there but isn't actually available/loaded up.
On Windows, this is sometimes called a 'hard fault'.
There's not much you can do about it. The fault is with Cider, or actually, with the way Pets functions under Cider.
As for the Disc Authorization Failure - as I said in several other posts, EA should be aware of the issue, since I trashed it out with a third level tech back in 2009 and we already came to the conclusion that it was most likely a problem between the authorization software and certain types/brands of disk drive.
I'm lucky, I had the problem from patch 1.1 to patch 1.8 or so and haven't had it since then. (I still have a noCD mod just in case the error crops up again...)
EA should by now have published this issue somewhere, the issue is as old as the game itself - it just hits different groups of people at different patch levels.
Every time it's solved for one group of users, another group gets hit and doesn't know what's happening... I wonder how many people ended up returning their disk because they assumed it was scratched or something.
Anyway, the only solutions are the ones already mentioned - repair your disk permissions, reboot your computer, and try, try again. Eventually it *will* start up. My record number of tries is 15. Back when I still had the issue, I would just start up the game while doing something else - like make preparations for dinner, sort magazines or make some official phone calls.
Anyway I have a Mac, too, Macbook Pro 2009 era hand me down. I found it often helps if I just eject the disk and blow off any debris and reload it. It may go off alignment from time to time, I think.