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Brand new laptop with no disk drive
CurvingYeti5
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I just got a new laptop as of Friday. I want to continue to play Sims 3 with all my expansions, but unfortunately I don't have a disk drive. All my games are physical disks, so I cannot just re download therm.I tried playing via another computer, but it says I need a disk in the computer. My games are registered and I have an Origin account. What do I do to keep playing?
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You can obtain digital download versions of your registered games at no cost which is made possible through the Origin download manager application program. Simply log into it with the same login credentials that was used to register the products. From the My Games tab you should find your digital games ready to download and install.
Before installing the digital download games, you will need to uninstall the disc versions of those games first if present. By running the latest-released expansion pack or stuff pack as an Origin digital download, no DVD disc will be required to launch into the game.
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Hey, sir it seems that you know about such kind of question? Sorry to bother but my PC, an Apple laptop has no DVD/CD drive as well. I want to play DVDs I bought from Amazon last year. I have no idea how to do it. I see from this article http://www.videoconverterfactory.com/tips/how-to-play-dvd-on-laptop.html, it gave two ways, the first is to buy external DVD drive. But I think it is too expensive which will cost me 15 dollars, and the other is to rip DVD to MP4? I am not sure whether this is legal or not? Do you know? In this thread http://www.pcworld.com/article/2020963/how-to-play-dvds-and-blu-ray-discs-in-windows-8.html, It mentioned to install VLC, but it is just a player not a drive, i have no idea what it is talking about.
The first article you linked to discusses DVD ripping software, but you would still need the hardware somewhere on some machine (running Windows I suppose) to actually use it and it's only going to work for specific file formats.
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My PC doesn't have a disc drive either, and I own all pre-2012 discs for everything but ITF and Pets. But, when I downloaded Origin onto my computer, my games were all there. You shouldn't have to repurchase them at all (provided that they were legit copies and not purchased from an unauthorized seller, ie eBay).
My husband tried burning the disc to a 'virtual' hard drive (Daemon Tools or something, I think it was called)... but it doesn't work. The game immediately recognizes that it's a copy and will not let you past the main menu screen.
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(I have never had any previous sims accounts.)
If the discs are second-hand and were already registered by someone else, or if you never owned the game at all, then purchasing the games digitally would be the option to consider.
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