Hello! I've been playing the Sims 3 on my old Dell laptop for a while now, courtesy of my friend installing it on my laptop. Her downloads included the base game, plus Seasons, Pets, and Supernatural. Eventually my computer went to plum and I wanted my own copy of the game. For my birthday this year in September, I got a MacBook. For Christmas, I got The Sims 3 plus Late Night and High-End Loft Stuff.
After numerous hours of trying to update my game (it had failed twice) I decided to download the expansion pack. I sat through yet another long hour of updates, and then I downloaded my stuff pack. Then I got the patch.
I had a disc authorization failure. At first I thought it was because my game was used (I could see the price through the sharpie used to cross it out) because I got 3 discs for 19.99 USD. I asked my dad, and he told me Game Stop takes all the discs out, and that's why there was no plastic. (I had known that previously but didn't think of it.) I had a new copy of the game. Its been confirmed. So I looked online for a solution, and I tried to repair something with my hard drive. It didn't work. Then I tried deleting the files DCCache and Downloads. When I restarted my computer, they were still there. I forgot to empty my trash before restarting. That still didn't work, because my disc was putting the files back and I needed the disc in to play the game. I uninstalled the game and started to download Sims 3 through Origin. So here's my question:
The only thing that showed up was the Sims 3, though I still own Late Night and a stuff pack. How can I download those through origin if only the Sims 3 and Sim City 2000 (free game) show up?
Ps, my Sims 3 account and my Origin account are linked together.
After numerous hours of trying to update my game (it had failed twice) I decided to download the expansion pack. I sat through yet another long hour of updates, and then I downloaded my stuff pack. Then I got the patch.
I had a disc authorization failure. At first I thought it was because my game was used (I could see the price through the sharpie used to cross it out) because I got 3 discs for 19.99 USD. I asked my dad, and he told me Game Stop takes all the discs out, and that's why there was no plastic. (I had known that previously but didn't think of it.) I had a new copy of the game. Its been confirmed. So I looked online for a solution, and I tried to repair something with my hard drive. It didn't work. Then I tried deleting the files DCCache and Downloads. When I restarted my computer, they were still there. I forgot to empty my trash before restarting. That still didn't work, because my disc was putting the files back and I needed the disc in to play the game. I uninstalled the game and started to download Sims 3 through Origin. So here's my question:
The only thing that showed up was the Sims 3, though I still own Late Night and a stuff pack. How can I download those through origin if only the Sims 3 and Sim City 2000 (free game) show up?
Ps, my Sims 3 account and my Origin account are linked together.