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Okay, thanks for letting me know. I actually am going to try and download it and play again. I made backups of important sims files, labled the "sims 3" folder as "sims3.old" and mods as "mods.old". Also took the mods out of the folder itself to my desktop for good measure. Twallan said to remove the "old" when you want to play the game again so we'll see if everything stays the way it should *crosses fingers*
Origin ID: simaddict1990
Looking forward to your report!
1- Only that my saved game was deleted and my store stuff was uninstalled. Everything I had from the store reinstalled without any problems.
2- Windows XP Pro
3- Collections and Saved Outfits.
Specifically these two: Collections and SavedOutfits or any others?
4- I removed that folder before installing CAP, readded it after I uninstalled CAP.
5- English US
6- Same as above
7- Digital Download of the Physical Version.
May take a while...college internet = demo downloading slowwwwwly:roll:
And don't worry, I have all of my school work done
Origin ID: simaddict1990
2- Windows xp Professional
3- Yes
4- Mods were removed
5- English
6- English
7- Disc
My game loads fine , CAP loads fine, all items installed with the launcher are missing
2- Windows or MAC & which Operating System
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit
3- Do you have any new Game Folders in your Game File? Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3
Specifically these two: Collections and SavedOutfits or any others?
those two
4- Do you have MODS?
Yes. Master controller, Story progression and Overwatch are the major ones
5- What language is your Sims 3 game?
English US
6- What language is your CAP Demo?
Greek
7- Are your games Digital or Physical Discs?
Physical
I'm currently restoring my Sims 3 folder from my backup on the 19th. I'm restoring it on a diff location. I'm planning to replace the current Sims 3 folder with the Backuped one, and rename it whenever i want to use CAP DEMO. Do you think this is going to work?
This image keeps popping up whenever I try and use the launcher. If you can't read it, it says: "There was an error during start up. Please see the Log for more details". It's so sad because even if I do uninstall all the Sims 3 games I lost the base game disc...=(. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
Also you can look at my solution on Pg 8.
Origin ID: simaddict1990
You shouldn't need to uninstall/reinstall anything. Follow the instructions on the first page of this post, and everything should be fine. At least it was for me. I was having the same issue. Well, I did also had to reinstall everything in downloads in the launcher.
My Sims 3 Studio
My forum builds thread
edit: Nevermind, I apologize. I did not read the excerpt quoted from Twallan from the first page :oops: :oops:
I assumed this "Demo" was a stand alone feature. I had no idea it would mess with my current game. I do have backups for just after Townlife, but I've built and edited so much since then.
I'm taking a very long break from The Sims and will only start up again if the EP after Pets is really good.
1- Issue(s) you are having/noticing since installing the Demo
All CC and Store Content is gone EXCEPT the lots I've downloaded. All items are missing in game as well.
2- Windows or MAC & which Operating System
Windows 7
3- Do you have any new Game Folders in your Game File? Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3
Yes
Specifically these two: Collections and SavedOutfits or any others?
Both.
4- Do you have MODS?
None.
5- What language is your Sims 3 game?
English
6- What language is your CAP Demo?
English
7- Are your games Digital or Physical Discs?
All physical
Once pets is out i'll rename my base sims 3 folder, unnisntall Demo delete the sims 3 folders it created (safe keep the pets i've saved) and name my sims 3 folder back before installing.
Remeber guys buckup is your friend!
To start I had a hard time with the download because orgin was not working, kept telling me my password was no good. I think it took me almost two hours to get it to work. once I got pets the launcher kept crashing, but when I tried the launcher through town life it went through and loaded fine. I got all the way to my saved game, then exited cause I had no reason to try to play it. My store content did not get erased either. I did not remove my mods and CC until after I read some of the stuff on this thread. After I removed all that stuff the pets demo came right up with no problems. Made a cat, dog, and horse. Read some more on here and went and uninstalled the demo and deleted any files and folders that were created by the demo, also I deleted the DCCACHE and DCBACKUP folders, Put the mods and CC I have been using back in. started up the launcher reinstalled the store content. loaded up my saved game play tesed it, the exited with no problems. though I have most of my mods and CC in a folder on my desktop, about a month ago I decided not to bother playing till I got pets. so I have been making stuff to upload to the exchange instead.
2- Windows or MAC & which Operating System
Windows vista
3- Do you have any new Game Folders in your Game File? Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3
Collections and SavedOutfits of which I have deleted both.
Specifically these two: Collections and SavedOutfits or any others?
4- Do you have MODS?
Yes. the major ones are Twallans, the pose player, the only ones I have on my desktop are the sliders.
5- What language is your Sims 3 game?
English
6- What language is your CAP Demo?
English
7- Are your games Digital or Physical Discs?
Physical Discs
I have a side question something I just noticed but I do not Know if It has anything to do with this. I looked in the Content Patch folder and found a file that was labled (DontBugMeUntilNextPatch) have you heard of this file before. I opened itin wordpad all that is there is the date 8/30/2011. :shock:
I too, assumed the CAP would be a separate file (as was create a pattern, and create a world), as we were not informed otherwise, or that it would cause problems.
I therefore did not make a backup.
HOWEVER, all of my store content, and cc (over 2,700 pieces) are missing. My downloads folder is also empty. I can redownload the store content, and possibly try to track down all the cc.
But all of my builds are now corrupt. Even with trying to go back to all my lots and replacing with content I will have to redownload, customizations/recolors will no longer be there either.
Is there going to be a fix for all of this? Will our games be restored to how they were?
That folder contains the latest fix for some store objects we got last month. As far as i know though , mine is not labeled like this. in my folder there is a ContentPatch.package file and another folder named Download that has another ContentPatch_0000.part file in it.
the same folder that was generated by the demo only has the download folder in it and that folder is empty.
so no idea where you got the DontBugMeUntilNextPatch thingy
1- Issue(s) you are having/noticing since installing the Demo - I'm not having any issues with either my game or the Demo. I have extensive Sims Store downloads as well as some other cc; all are present and accounted for in my game. I also uploaded a couple of pets I made on the Demo.
Please note: I'm posting this to try and help those who are looking to solve issues others are having. If I post comparative stats or a "what is working", maybe it can give a base-line to help resolve others' problems.
2- Windows or MAC & which Operating System - I have Windows 7; I also have all EPs and SPs installed as well as all patches.
3- Do you have any new Game Folders in your Game File? Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3
Specifically these two: Collections and SavedOutfits or any others?
These are the only two new ones I noticed.
4- Do you have MODS? Yes; I use Twallan's Master Controller and Overwatch. I didn't move anything or change anything prior to installing the Demo. I just did a routine back-up of my Sims 3 folder to another drive. I haven't had to re-install or re-download anything.
5- What language is your Sims 3 game? English
6- What language is your CAP Demo? English
7- Are your games Digital or Physical Discs?
I have been using all Digital since Late Night; the original game and all EPs and SPs prior to that were physical discs.
I will help with any other questions if I can. I won't be able to log back on until I return from work tomorrow evening, but have bookmarked this thread. If I can help further by giving more information, please let me know.
With me it kept saying my password was no good and it would not connect me to were I could change my password. Even after I managed to change my password through the orgin site on line it still would not accept it. I uninstalled and reinstalled both the orgin downloader and town life, then I deleted the EADM installer that was still on my desktop. restrated my computer. and finally orgin strated to work again. This all started around 6:PM (sorry about the smilely face it is supposed to say) 6:PM.. 6pm Eastern standard time, I live in Virginia,Us. I hope this info is helpful to you.
apparently the smiley face is out of control I will try this one more time
I have not downloaded the store content patch. When it started showing up I went to the store to see what it was about. I dont have any of the stuff that it is updating. I have the Download Folder as well but it is empty. :?:
small problem i did all that and it worked ... then turned off my computer for dinner and had to do it all over again .... so restarted to see if i would have to every time and guess what yep problems re-occured so the only solution after talking for 30 minutes with a senior tech was to uninstall and reinstall everything though if you can find your save cashe then copy it and place it back into the folder after reinstall.