A friend wrote me with this problem- I’ve gone thru several “installing mods” tutorials with her but it hasn’t helped. Can anyone assist us?
I installed an expansion pack- Mansions and stuff and for some reason it wouldn’t recognize the disk. I finally just removed the program but it erased my games and mods! So now I’m trying to reinstall mods but its not working, its not seeing the content. When I go into Program Files there is two EAgames. One says EAgames1. I copied all the EAgames1 and pasted them into EAgames. Then I created a Downloads folder and I copied all the files into the Downloads folder. It wont show up. I even clicked to allow the custom content stuff on the game options menu. Please tell me what to do to fix this!
Her description is a bit convoluted. Here’s what I assume she’s saying: She installed the new official expansion pack. But, for some reason, she couldn’t get it to recognize the new disk. She uninstalled the expansion pack, which messed up the entire program. Now nothing will work.
She probably needs to uninstall everything, and then delete all “EA Games” folders. The only folders she should keep are the Sims one in My Documents, and the ones inside. And even those should probably be backed up, just in case.
Reinstall the game and then reinstall the mods (without running the game.) start the game and hope. If it acts like a new game, then quit, restore the backup save folders, and try again.
I’m concerned that she may have had her save game files updated, which means she cannot recover them, if she didn’t back them up before installing the official expansion. If she can get the bad CD replaced, she might be able to do it. Or she could try a NoCD crack, but I wouldn’t recommend that unless you know how to find those without getting malware. And I absolutely would not help you with that unless you are sure she has a legitimate copy. The type of problem she has is common amongst pirated versions.
She found her problem was she was using the EA Games file in Program Files and not the one in My Documents. Once she knew what she was doing, the game & mods started working. L Thanks!
Now she has found that her Sims phone isn’t working. She only has Inteenimator and InSiminator with a couple of accessories running & they haven’t caused that problem before. What should she try?
I’ve not had that problem before, so all I can do is offer Googled advice. This page covers some ideas: Try deleting and rebuying the phone (use cheats if you need money), and if that doesn’t work, quit without saving and try moving the downloads back out.