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Preparing to Play Sims 3 in 2024 and Beyond
Katofhyrule12
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Last year I was having a great time playing Sims 3 until Microsoft forced an update and broke the Windows laptop that I was using to play the game. I installed Linux on some old trash to get my school work done, and I started using a PS5 to play the Sims 4. I miss the Sims 3 enough that I am willing to try and play hardball with Microsoft.
I am planning to buy an older refurbished desktop just to install the Steam version of Sims 3 and for nothing else. An older refurbished 16 GB desktop mini is easily acquired for under $150.00. The less that I use the machine for other things, the more freedom that I will have to optimize it for the Sims 3.
What are the best options to set up Sims 3 for longtime play when it was created for versions of Windows that Microsoft is forcing into obsolescence?
I love playing in the open world of Lucky Palms! It can have everything if I use my imagination and create a theme park for the things that are not native to deserts.
My semester at school ends in May and my summer classes do not start until June. So I have a month to set everything up and stalk the Sims 3 store deals before I will have time to actually play the game.
I am planning to buy an older refurbished desktop just to install the Steam version of Sims 3 and for nothing else. An older refurbished 16 GB desktop mini is easily acquired for under $150.00. The less that I use the machine for other things, the more freedom that I will have to optimize it for the Sims 3.
What are the best options to set up Sims 3 for longtime play when it was created for versions of Windows that Microsoft is forcing into obsolescence?
I love playing in the open world of Lucky Palms! It can have everything if I use my imagination and create a theme park for the things that are not native to deserts.
My semester at school ends in May and my summer classes do not start until June. So I have a month to set everything up and stalk the Sims 3 store deals before I will have time to actually play the game.
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Is there any way to add the store content manually, or play through the Steam app? I think I have played with both the Steam and the EA app, and I think I had store content in both. I had to do some weird stuff with codes though.
I have Dragon Valley but have not sent much time in it. Dragon Valley certainly will make the game new again! I added some of the Roaring Heights stuff to Lucky Palms as an amusement park. I added a crime museum next to the roller coaster and some other things. I had never thought to add some Dragon Valley stuff as an amusement park. I want to try that! Dragons flying around Las Vegas, LOL. I love it!
Mine was fine too. I wonder why @SERVERFRA is having so much trouble.
I will do some research on this! Thanks!
edited to say: I play on a desktop, PC & Windows 11
There is, You move the content into the downloads folder in the same place where your saves are stored. And then you can either double click the package files and hope that the launcher opens correctly *or* you open the launcher, and select which content you want to install inside of it and hit "add to game". I don't think the function of logging it and it retrieving it on its own has worked well in a number of years, and is also well outside of support.
Oh and as others have said, both the game and launcher will work on the steamdeck. Even better with the steam version specifically as that doesn't suffer from Origin/EA App issues