When they offered those great deals on Origin for Sims 3, I bought Diesel Stuff as a digital download. All of my other Sims EP's and SP's are downloaded from discs. So, today I went to download my Diesel Stuff and got this message:
DLC Compatibility Alert
It seems the base game for this DLC was not installed through Origin. For The Sims3 Diesel Stuff to work, you will first need to:
1. Select Uninstall Now below, locate the base game, and follow the on-screen instructions to uninstall it.
2. Download and install the base game through Origin by selecting it in My Games and clicking Download.
After that you can download and play The Sims 3 Diesel Stuff.
Do I really have to uninstall my game? Will I lose everything I have currently? I hope not cuz that would really suck. I had a feeling I shouldn't go for digital download and now it seems my hunch was right. Has anyone experienced this and what did you do about it?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
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i bought Diesel stuff then too and i uninstalled my game ( kept all my savegames and items and stuff)
then my download spent five days resseting back to 40%......almost lost my game but it just suddenly started working again.
So to anyone reading this....DONT RISK YOUR GAME.
thank goodness its installed and patching now, i'd have lost it if i lost my game.
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Plus once this download is done I get to re-download the patches, wait while the game I actually bought (Island Paradise) downloads. I just hope that after all this my game actually runs.
I did this earlier today and also wish I'd seen this thread first. When my base game FINALLY finished re-installing from Origin, I had to enter the redemption code, and the product code on the My Games page said it was invalid. I then had to wait for an hour to live chat with customer service, although as soon as he could look into my account and make sure everything was legit he gave me a new activation code for the base game.
So, I finally got it installed and started installing Island Paradise. Origin said I had to update my base game first, not a problem, right? I went to open the launcher and nothing except error after error. I had to search the forums and finally came across a link for a manual update to the current patch. That took another 20 minutes to download, but once it finished I could finally open my launcher and finish installing IP. It took me all flipping day just to get the game on my computer, I'm not super happy right now, but I'm still excited about getting to play it.
I am glad to hear you got your game up and running, and sorry to hear you had to deal with all of that. My download reset itself again, from 80% to 69%, not sure why it keeps doing that. I am back up to 85% and if it resets again I don't know what I will do. I am very disappointed right now, but I will keep my fingers crossed that this download takes and that IP is a smoother download. I also hope I won't have the problem you had with the activation code. This month alone I have had to contact customer service 6 different times over various store issues and now this, I have managed to stay friendly and polite, but I have to admit I am at my breaking point here. I really don't want to have to deal with customer service again.
thankyouuu
first prob I've run into and found the answer here
thanks