Author Topic: The Problem isn't there anymore, but I have a question about why it happened.  (Read 2696 times)

Offline Coocoo girl

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Sorry for the long subject, but I have a question about the sims, it's been solved, but I really want to know why it happened.  The first expansion pack I installed was generations, it wouldn't work, the game launcher would just freeze up after i clicked the play arrow, and, I was left sitting with a grey arrow.  I uninstalled generations, tried to play sims, and the grey arrow was there again, so I uninstalled sims, re installed sims and generations, and it took a few times to get it to work, barely.  Eventually that stopped working and I re installed it again, the process started over again.  I always had these problems with the other expansion packs, world adventures came next, then late night, eventually I was driven to getting a new sims base game because I thought something was wrong with that one base game, I did, annnnd, drumroll please...it happened again.  But then, when I got pets, after struggling through trying to just get the sims to open up into the game, everything was fixed, I didn't have that problem, and I haven't had it since, or even anything close to it.  Was there something in pets that was able to fix this, or was it a patch that I just happened to get?  But it was only after I installed pets.  I really want to know why this happened, because I want to know if I could have prevented all that reinstalling all together.  I have an urge to know why it happened. 
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Offline napoleonwrasse

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When you uninstalled and reinstalled did you patch each game (including base) before doing the next one?



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Offline Coocoo girl

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Oh my gosh, I can't believe this.  I have absolutely no idea. :-\
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If you used disks to re-install the game, it prompts you to install the update at the start of each disk and you cannot continue until you do so.  I don't know about installing from a digital format.
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If you used disks to re-install the game, it prompts you to install the update at the start of each disk and you cannot continue until you do so.  I don't know about installing from a digital format.

It worked the same for me in digital downloads.

 

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