Sims 3 Supernatural won't appear ingame.

[Pengie]

I bought Sims 3 Supernatural on Origin, downloaded and installed it. However when I load the game, it is not displayed on the launcher and does not appear in the game. I thought updating to 1.39 would help but whenever I try to update I get an "invalid file" error.

I haven't tried removing my mods but I don't want to unless that's the only way to do it.

If someone will resolve this then you'll have metaphorical hugs.

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[Pengie]

Well I wanted a digital copy and that was the cheapest place to get it, I bought it for £21 and I'm not paying double that just because I don't like Origin. It's so bad it's not even funny anymore, your joke and Origin.

[tails]

Think the patch downloader would help? What's the invalid file?

[Pengie]

It doesn't specify. Just says

"Error: Invalid File" and stops the update. But I'll try the patch downloader.

[tails]

If that doesn't work people seem to say that doing this giant base game to newest version update fixes it. http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/TS3_1.39.3.0180xx_update.exe (1gb)

But what i and a lot of people do is, When an expansion comes out just uninstall all of it and reinstall in order. So much less of a hassle.

[Pengie]

patch downloader didn't work

Yeah I was thinking I might have to reinstall everything but owning every single expansion pack and stuff pack and mostly digital copies, it takes so long to download :(

[tails]

Why do you own every stuff pack! That stuff is 95% junk, Not only that but showtime is pretty worthless as is world adventures (Although it was cool for a bit..) I would have pets but the pet noises creep me out.

[Pengie]

I own them all because they're only like £10-20 on Gamefanshop.com and I have a horrible, horrible habit of collecting every sims game ever. Sims 1 collection, Sims 2 collection, Castaway, Medieval etc etc. Except the Simcity games, but I plan to change that. The pet noises creep me out too, so I just got a mod that changes the sounds to actual animal sounds. Plus I don't really find showtime worthless since I spend a lot of my time building houses and I really love some of the furniture included with Showtime and World Adventures. Stuff packs are admittedly pretty stupid seeing as most of them have really stuffty stuff but.. OH I CAN'T HELP IT. IT'S A DISEASE I TELL YOU, A DISEASE.

But anyway now what, I re-installed everything in order, I got rid of all my mods and even all my saves and it still won't update. Then it tells me I can't play Supernatural without updating. I really just want to play the damn game :(

[tails]

Maybe try changing skuversion.txt in the sims 3 folder to have GameVersion = 1.38.151.018002 ?
(Apparently that's not the newest version, But that's what i'm on and it works.)

And did you try out the super patch?