Should I update?

fruitsbasket101

With the recent release of toddlers on the sims 4, I am thinking of going back to the game after a year of not playing to check them out. The only problem is, for obvious reasons, I never updated to the last patch for the sims 3 cause I was afraid it would ruin my game like it did so may others. It's to the point where I can't avoid updating the sims 3 if I go into origin so I have a couple questions about the update before I decide to do it. If you have all the eps and sps can you play with them all if you want to or does it limit you? Does it affect game play in anyway?

igazor

The way this is supposed to work is that if you exempt your games from auto-updating, you may get asked if you want TS3 patched but it shouldn't happen all by itself. But some players have found that agreeing to patches for other Origin games, such as TS4, sometimes does trigger the TS3 patch. Though if they catch it happening they can terminate that part of the process.

As for Patch 1.69 itself, if you are going to patch up to it on purpose I would suggest pulling your TS3 game folder out of Documents first -- you can put it back in its entirety later. This was always a "best practice" for patching TS3. Core mods, if you have any, will need to be updated for 1.69. There are only five such mods in common use for TS3, more info on the link to follow. But the patch changes nothing at all about game play, only the way in which the game must be started.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Patch+1.69

The EP/SP Chooser is a pain, but one gets used to examining it every time to make sure all of the desired packs are checked off before hitting Start on the Launcher. You can make the nag message about having too many packs selected go away permanently by clicking "Stop telling me this" or the equivalent, but the patch doesn't actually prevent anyone from playing with all of them.

TreyNutz

fruitsbasket101 wrote: »

If you have all the eps and sps can you play with them all if you want to or does it limit you? Does it affect game play in anyway?

I play with all the EPs and SPs. The patch doesn't limit me at all. It hasn't affected my gameplay at all. It didn't ruin my game. It really had no affect on my game, just the Launcher. I can't bypass the Launcher anymore and must have Origin running in the background, but that hasn't been a problem yet.

I did have to update a few core mods I use, but that's all. The Launcher occasionally forgets which EPs/SPs you've chosen to use, but it happens so rarely for me that I don't bother to check that tab anymore. When it does happen it's always been all or nothing for me, so if I load a game and there's some message about missing objects then I know right away what happened. I just exit without saving, relaunch, and check the Expansions and Stuff Packs tab on the Launcher and recheck everything. Sounds like a pain, but it happens so rarely that it's more of a pain to be to check the tab each time I play.

fruitsbasket101

Thank you both for the help. I guess i'll go update my game and see what happens.

MidnightAura

I was in the same position as you a few weeks ago. I now have the latest patch. It wasn't through choice. But I can't complain, my game has been running super smooth. I can't say I've noticed a difference since the patch. My sims 3 game performs better than my sims 4 game does!

nickibitsward

Every time I go into Origin to let Sims 4 update, it "tries" to update Sims 3 as well. I just uncheck that box. It's not gotten past me yet! If you do let it update 3, good luck!

JoAnne65

nickibitsward wrote: »

Every time I go into Origin to let Sims 4 update, it "tries" to update Sims 3 as well. I just uncheck that box. It's not gotten past me yet! If you do let it update 3, good luck!

Really? Fortunately that doesn't happen for me, it's just Sims 4 that gets updated.

fruitsbasket101

nickibitsward wrote: »

Every time I go into Origin to let Sims 4 update, it "tries" to update Sims 3 as well. I just uncheck that box. It's not gotten past me yet! If you do let it update 3, good luck!

Thanks for the tip. I haven't gone in Origin yet so i'll see if maybe I can do this instead.

nickibitsward

fruitsbasket101 wrote: »

nickibitsward wrote: »

Every time I go into Origin to let Sims 4 update, it "tries" to update Sims 3 as well. I just uncheck that box. It's not gotten past me yet! If you do let it update 3, good luck!

Thanks for the tip. I haven't gone in Origin yet so i'll see if maybe I can do this instead.

Even though I have automatic updates unchecked on the Sims 3 launcher it still tries, it is determined.

06Bon06

I had to get it to install WA as my disc magically got scratched while in the case. I haven't had any problems and it really isn't a big deal, just sometimes the launcher unchecks your packs.

phoebebebe13

nickibitsward wrote: »

fruitsbasket101 wrote: »

nickibitsward wrote: »

Every time I go into Origin to let Sims 4 update, it "tries" to update Sims 3 as well. I just uncheck that box. It's not gotten past me yet! If you do let it update 3, good luck!

Thanks for the tip. I haven't gone in Origin yet so i'll see if maybe I can do this instead.

Even though I have automatic updates unchecked on the Sims 3 launcher it still tries, it is determined.

Origin is . I refuse to open it.

fruitsbasket101

Finally got in to Origin and managed to avoid the sims 3 update.(Yay!) Now I get to play with the new toddlers without worry.