Just a quick heads-up

Cadh20000 · November 2016

Recently Sims3 and several expansions have become available on Steam(matter of fact that is how I got mine), just to let any players using the Steam version know, but the "Create a World" tool does not work with the Steam version, it will fail to recognize that the game is installed. However once you have registered your games on the mypage.thesims3.com/ site it will become available on the Origin game manager and if you switch to using that instead of Steam to play(warning, you do have to download and install through Origin to do this even if you already have it installed through Steam) then the tool will recognize that you have it and become useable.

ts1depot · November 2016

Thanks! This is good to know.

Cadh20000 · November 2016

Glad the info interests you!

victoriapitt · November 2016

Thanks for sharing, I was looking into getting some missing SPs and EPs to complete my collection from steam so thanks for the heads up!

Cadh20000 · August 2019

I know this'll be necro'ing the thread, but just to let you know if interested, CAW can be used with Steam, but it does require a registry tweak to do so. Also, remember Steam's version of Sims3 is 1.67 unlike Origin's which is 1.69.
You can find instructions here in Steam's "The Sims 3: Community Guides" https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277022926

And yes, it works. Haven't actually figured CAW out yet, but I have followed this guide and can use it now.

Rouensims · August 2019

This may be a necropost, but it is greatly helpful, as I recently thought about buying Sims 3 on Steam!

Cadh20000 · September 2019

Rouenpucelle wrote: »

This may be a necropost, but it is greatly helpful, as I recently thought about buying Sims 3 on Steam!

Have fun with it! ^_^

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