Hey guys!
A few months ago I decided to install some new CC from TSR. Unfortunately, my game crashed but I managed to fix my game (luckily).
The only problem is:
The new CC I've downloaded doesn't show up in CAS, or anywhere. The simspacks nor the packages show up. I have tried
everything, but nothing works...
I have tried re-installing CC, start a new game, making a new Sims3 folder, and the next step will be a complete re-install.
I have never had problems with CC before, and I'm 100% sure that I've put them in the right place.
So please, help me
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If it's not updating, that means you have a second unwanted TS3 game folder someplace that the game is reading instead and is ignoring the one in Documents into which you are adding content. If you are on Win 10, a popular place for these to show up is in OneDrive.
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Oh thank you so much! It actually is reading an unwanted TS3 game folder. I'm on a mac, so how can I find the unwanted TS3 folder?
But the game folder being used could be in Applications > (not sure of the exact path anymore) > TS3 > TS3 (this one can be opened further, but it's a Mac OS package file that can only be opened and examined with a right-click and "Show Package Contents"). Spotlight probably won't find files saved in such a location as they wouldn't be search indexed.
Let's see if @BluebellFlora has any other ideas.
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I'm not sure if the package files work, but I know for sure that the sims3packs still don't show up in game. I have checked my Downloads folder in my TS3 folder, and the content seems to be right, although I'm not sure about that. There are 3 files in there: nav.bin, wl.bin and FSIViewCountTracking. Are those supposed to be in there?
The next step will be a complete re-install, I'll probably do that next weekend. I hope that'll fix the problems.
Thank you for helping me, and if you have any other suggestions, I'll be happy to hear them.
Do you or @igazor know how I can fix that problem?
Or have we moved on from all that by now?
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I have searched for it everywhere, but I really can't find the other game file.
Sims3pack CC gets installed by being placed in Downloads in the Game Folder, the one that's in Documents, read by the Launcher, and installed one item at a time. Unless you are moving bundles of already installed CC over from another computer, then there is a shortcut that sometimes works.
Package based CC gets installed by being placed into Mods\Packages within a properly setup Framework, also within your Game Folder in Documents, then there is no one item at a time thing for that file format.
See the Types of Sims 3 Files section of this page for a more detailed explanation.
http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_CC_Basics#Types_of_Sims_3_Files
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I have the exact same problem as the author of the thread. I have the base game and the late night expansion downloaded, I have bought a few items from the official sims 3 store and run a few operational mod. My RAM is purged and there is space on my computer.
However, I cannot see my CC content at all in game. I have tried to move the sims 3 folder to my desktop so my game would re-create new files and tried to download my CC content again from the store but it doesn't show in game anyway. More particularly, I used to play in version Roaring Heights where I've built a lot of new places and venues and personalised everything, invested a lot of time in it, and now I cannot play this world anymore :(
Do you have any idea what I can do in order to make my CC content work again?
Store content -- downloading it (should) put the content in your Downloads folder, the live one, for the Launcher to read. It then needs to be installed? Which step is failing? Although I know this makes no sense at all, could you try removing your entire Mods folder before trying to download and install content? Many on the Mac version of the game report this helps for some reason.
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However one problem remain, I am able to play in new neighborhoods and save in them as well. However, I can't still access to my old save of roaring hights, while it downloads a message asking me if I want to debug my game makes it quit.
More to the point, I don't understand the Roaring Heights issue. Installing/downloading a world (from the EA Store) and accessing a prior save that took place in that world are two very different things.
Tell you what, let's page a Mac expert in here and see if she can assist better than I have been able to. You are indeed playing on a Mac as you mentioned RAM purging, correct?
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I'm sure someone can help, if your saved game is salvageable. They just need to figure out exactly where the fault is coming from, I'm still a bit confused as to what's going wrong there.
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The debug error, as I mentioned in this thread already here, is probably memory related so you need to purge RAM. There's no point in doing it once, you have to do it regularly throughout gameplay. If your problem is downloading and installing RH then the issue may be that it is a large game file installing through the Launcher. If your issue is your saved game not loading then it may be because that save is just too big and bloated now. How big is the save file?
I did purge RAM on my laptop, which was almost full to reduce it to half but the message keeps appearing while I play. And strangely, I have no problem creating new saves on other neighborhoods.
The save file is 83,8Mo big. Thanks a lot for your help!!
I suggest that you pull out your entire user TS3 game folder in Documents out to the Desktop and declare it a loss, but keep it there so the content (and saved games, if any) can be moved back into what will be a new game folder. Launch the game, and it should spawn a new TS3 user game folder in Documents. Test it by starting and saving a new game to make sure it's working as it should.
Download the mods framework from here. Extract it (unzip) and place the Mods folder in its entirety into your new game folder. The download includes Mods, Packages, Overrides, and Resource.cfg all in the right places for you plus two sample mods already in Packages, NoStartupMovie and NoBuildSparkles. The file structure should look just like the illustrations. If you startup the game, is the startup movie suppressed? If so, then you have a working Mods folder. You don't have to keep the two sample mods if you don't want them.
http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Setup_and_Files
As for what file names look like, if you have Windows set to hide file extensions then Resource.cfg will look like Resource. That doesn't make any difference to the game, it's just what the files look like to the user when listed.
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If so, then you would obviously need to do some combining/moving to get everything in the right place. I may not be the best person to address the easiest/best way to accomplish it, but I'm sure someone else better equipped to handle it will be along shortly to help out.
If you don't find a second The Sims 3 documents folder on your computer, open your launcher and go to installed content and make sure the run without custom content box there isn't ticked.
If neither of those two things are the problem, then you probably either did do something wrong with your mods folder setup, even though you think not (it's happened to me even when it wasn't my first try), or you didn't install the cc files properly. There's a link above in the thread re. the different file types and how to handle them.
Since this is an "older" thread, it may get closed out before your problem is completely solved (although since there's been some ongoing, helpful discussion in it, it also may not). If you can't post again here regarding this problem or if you have another problem while you still have new member status on the forums, here is a link to a thread for new members to post about problems they're having:
https://forums.thesims.com/en_us/discussion/893122/thread-for-new-members-to-post-their-sims-3-game-issues/p1
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