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Trouble updating game to current patch [Solved]
« on: July 14, 2013, 08:35:12 PM »
So a few days ago I decided to try and update my game. It had been giving me that "There is an update available for download. Would you like to update now?" dialog every time I launched for the past few weeks but I was dismissing it because of all the mods I would have to update as well.

So I finally decided to update all my mods so I could update the game without losing any functionality so I click "yes" and an Origin progress window popped up that said "Downloading http://www.thesims3.com/launcher/patches/.445044654 (Paused)"

I don't know why it said paused, It clearly was not paused and downloading just fine but that's not the real problem.

The real problem comes when the download completes. The Patch does not get applied and the launcher throws up another "There is an update available for download. Would you like to update now?" dialog so I clicked "yes" again thinking that maybe I'm just several patches behind and they all have to be applied sequentially and I repeat this process 4 times and wind up with 4 open Origin progress windows all naming the exact same download file "http://www.thesims3.com/launcher/patches/.445044654"

The previous progress windows don't go away, the wording in them changes to "Unlocking http://www.thesims3.com/launcher/patches/.445044654"

This is getting really annoying. The file is 1.5 gig in size and I've been downloading it over and over again and each time I have no idea where that data is being written too or why it's not getting applied.

Any one have any ideas?

I'm using Window Vista 64bit.
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Offline grimsoul

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Re: Trouble updating game to current patch
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2013, 09:18:39 PM »
Updating the game through the launcher never works for me. I always download the patch and install it myself. I download them from Crinrict's.
You can download either the incremental patch or the super patch there then run the exe file to install it.
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Re: Trouble updating game to current patch
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2013, 08:15:58 AM »
Thanks for the tip. I'll give that a try.
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Re: Trouble updating game to current patch
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2013, 11:55:03 PM »
Updating the game through the launcher never works for me. I always download the patch and install it myself. I download them from Crinrict's.
You can download either the incremental patch or the super patch there then run the exe file to install it.

Yup, That did the trick. Thanks again.
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Offline grimsoul

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Re: Trouble updating game to current patch [Solved]
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2013, 02:53:53 AM »
I'm glad that worked for you. Happy Simming. :)
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