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I've tried to patch my game because I want to use Create a World and an error which said invalid file found turned up.
Is it because I am using non-original software?
Is there a way around this?

It might be something connected to the skuversion.txt. Try removing all mods and don't crack the game first, and be sure your game version is 0.1 Try patching agai and see if it works.

http://nene.modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game Help:TS3 Patching

I was having the same problem, and though I used the "patch log viewer" (http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=350186) that determined gameversion.txt (or something like this) needed to be replaced, replacing it did not solve the invalid file program and patch log viewer told me it needed to be replaced after each time I replaced it!

Prior to this I kept getting an error that my basegame needed to be updated, even though I just finished installing the latest WA patch on my WA release. Shouldn't THAT have updated my basegame??

I just uninstalled the whole thing again, TS3 is not good enough for the hassle.

Can you use the download manager to install patches on RAZOR/RELOADED releases? I find it difficult to find the correct patch versions (and now, apparently, the correct ORDER, since I needed to install a basegame update prior to my WA update..... I guess?).

I also tried to patch my game, I don't have WA, and I get the invalid thing. It tells me to reinstall. My game was not loading cuz awesomemod was old, and now I can't patch the game up high enough to use awesomemod, and I can't use and older version of awesomemod. Is there something i did wrong? my game is a legal copy, but the thing is throwing a hissy fit. I have a Mac and install stuff the long way

You no not need some kind of program to read the patch log file. It's found in the temp folder in a file after the failed install of a patch. I have heard that you can use the Download Manager to install the patches but personally I don't trust it. To solve this problem, I removed and replaced all files that I had modified, then downloaded every patch and installed each one in order. The ones I didn't need told me so.

I just wanna know how to patch the game when i installed ts3 on a different drive. It wants to always installs to the windows drive, but i make it on my F drive. . . But EA said i cant patch the game when its not installed to the default directory . . . Are they lying or can i just open the patch binary files and it will patch?

That can't be right, because I have the most twistedly arcane disk layout, and it manages to find the Sims just fine, despite the amount of armtwisting I had to do to make it even install to begin with.

I shifted the game over to F drive, from the windows drive, changed the registry AFTER i patched it up to 1.7 or w/e. The one before the shit hit the fan. And, its working xD . . . Mind you, im still having a few issues, but thats due to the fact that the game is like a hormonal PMS'n teenager.

I haven't tried to patch up, nor do i intend too. I will wait for EA to release a new one, then wait for feed back lol. . . But, im going to assume, that if it works for you, patching with/without the launcher will be easy?

The same thing happened to me - AFTER I'd sorted out the getting-the-region-code-to-work business. EA is really pissing me off lately. :/
What I did was go to Simprograms (www.simprograms.com) and went to patches. I downloaded both the .001 and .002 version of the patch, because I wasn't sure which one worked. I found the right one and now my game works fine. Until the next fiasco.

I have a legit base game (properly patched) and arr'd WA. WA didn't even want to install because of wrong region. Changed base game to 2 and it installed.

Then it didn't want to patch through EA installer, so I found all the patches released and installed them one by one ---2.0, then 2.2, then the final one. Worked just fine. BUT I didn't use the crack for WA, I used the real exe, so watch out for that.

I have a Mac and my game is patched to 1.4.6.1  I keep trying to patch but it keeps telling me something is wrong. When I look at the Log it says this in red

Examining File : /Contents/Resources/transgaming/c_drive/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Game/Bin/Shaders_Win32.precomp  -> SHA1 Error

that is all that is in red, all that seems to be wrong

Pull the original off the cd and put it in place of that one. Maybe, I'm not sure how different Macs are. Did you ever download one of the original no censor hacks? They used to change that file.

My God My God. I am about ready to ball my eyes out over here.
I BOUGHT an official Digital Download copy of TS3. It is vers 1.1.6.107
That is what it was when I downloaded it (like a week after it came out. I kind of havent really played it since about nov last year). It has never updated. I have tried all of the workarounds and solutions that I have seen on the internet (on the official forum, and on modthesims... I have even contacted EA and gone through the crap of sending them screenshots etc. They can't help me!) I've repaired permissions, I have done a complete and total uninstall (moving my backup files to an external drive) and reinstall several times. I have created an entirely different administrator account on my computer JUST for using TS3.

It isn't even REGISTERING that it is out of date! The launcher says that my game is up to date! I have installed it and had 'automatic updates' ticked, I have installed it and had 'automatic updates' unticked. I have refreshed. I have deauthorised and reauthorised. I have meticulously checked that it is installing in the right place.
Now I tried to install HELS and it wouldn't install because my base game isn't up to date!
The game will run with XML hack mods but not core mods (like awesome, or I also tried inteen). I have also removed these completely from the game, reinstalled it and tried to patch again - still no luck.

I am really at my wits end. Please, is there anyone out there who can help me?

Go to simprograms.com and manually download every patch you need.

they are no longer available.

Reply #12 has links to patches: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18305.0.html

You are a fucking idiot.  I just checked, every patch you need is there.  Are you really that stupid?  Did you even bother to look?

yes I did.

perhaps you didn't realise that I am on a mac.

I didn't mention it, but it would be reasonable to expect that if you checked the site and noticed that the mac updates weren't there you might figure it out. Why would I say the patches weren't there if they were?

Hate to say it, but I think the only way you're going to get out of that issue is by first reinstalling the game after doing a clean uninstall, and barring that installing WA or HELS since the basegame launcher for mac is fucked up to begin with. I had patching issues with it too, but the WA and HELS launchers work fine. We have no alternate method of getting patches that I know of*.

*I have vague memory of being corrected on this, but I can't be bothered to go look right now so do it yourself.

yeah, I have looked around, they seem to have all been taken down because I need the very early ones.

I have tried the clean uninstall (I'm assuming you mean removing absolutely everything to an external drive and then reinstalling and trying to run the game without putting anything back in it).

When I've been opening the HELS launcher it's been giving me an error message.

Just a weird question, can someone look at their base game files, in contents/resources and see if there is a file called tgUpdateMulti - i noticed that was in the HELS files. I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause... but anything's worth a shot.

There are a number of mac patches there, so how would that help working out what system your on?  Mentioning you were on a mac in the first post would have been beneficial.

Have you tried a google search, there are no doubt plenty of sites offering the mac patches for you.

So - I paid $80 and got a brand new game from the EA store.

Guess what? Works perfectly. Automatically patched right up to 1.11

I was sold a fucked up version of the game. I will be demanding my money back.

Anyone else who is reading this - do not buy games from Bigpond Games Shop in Australia.

WTF? You mean your one, single, solitary game, out of millions of games sold world-wide, was coded differently in some way, so as to make patching impossible? Good lord, you really ARE retarded.

no fuckwit.

I mean that the version that is on the server of the 3rd party retailer I bought the first game from is fucked.

Knowing Telstra, they probably already know but couldn't be bothered fixing it or telling anyone there was a problem.

My question still stands. Did they, like, recode it or something? How, in your deranged world of biploar assburgers, would such a scenario work?

Possibly.
It appears there is a file missing from their copy of the program.

And they "left out" this file only on your copy of the game? SHO UR WERK.

LULZ. Yeah, keep telling yourself that. Then you don't have to face up to what an enormous bag of fail you are.

Did you buy your Sims 3 for mac game from Bigpond games Australia? Do you know anyone else who has?

The game comes with the mac and windows versions on the same disc, so saying "for mac" is slightly pointless. I could see a one in a bazillion chance that you got the one disc with a corrupted version of cider on it, but that is unlikely and I mostly don't buy it. Stranger things have happened, but I honestly wouldn't blame the store you got it from in the event you did get a bad copy. I am curious if it works fine on a windows box though.

Grimma, although she's throwing out way too many unnecessary expletives in this discussion, she's likely to be right about Telstra. They used to be the Government phone company here. Their service is spectacualrly bad and they're good at trying to pretend that something isn't screwing up. It's highly likely that they're dishing out the wrong patches but they're too lazy to bother checking that.

However, Booby McHooters if you want these guys to help you in the future, swearing at them and abusing them is probably not the way to do it. You're the one who were discussing your issue, if you're looking for help you absolutely have to provide your operating system and mention any other hacks you may have in your game.  Depending on the issue you usually also need to provide data like your graphics card, CPU and information on how old your drivers are. Otherwise people are purely taking a shot in the dark when it comes to helping you with your issue.

I was being polite Saraswati - until I got called a tard or an idiot.... I was sworn at and insulted first.

And I HAVE mentioned that it was a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD from the BIGPOND GAMES SHOP online. It is a MAC ONLY download file - you only get one or the other when it's a digital download. A .exe for windows or a .dmg for mac. The issue is a missing file in the program downloaded from the server. WHY it is like that I don't know. Perhaps someone at telstra accidentally deleted part of it when they were uploading it to the server. Perhaps they are doing it on purpose. Perhaps telstra is actually selling a pirate game, and they don't want EA to find out so they have disabled the game's ability to connect to the EA servers for updates.

I have checked - I bought another copy of the game from EA, installed the new copy on my mac book, and installed the bigpond copy on my imac. The bigpond copy of the program has one less file in it. I haven't isolated exactly which file it is - now that I have a new copy I can't really be bothered going through all of the files to find out which one is missing.
Now that I AM aware I will be asking Telstra/Bigpond games for my money back. If they don't give me my money back I will cancel all of my telecommunications services with them (and that is 2 mobiles, a landline, an expensive ADSL 2+ account and my pay tv). I'm already pissed of with them for a number of other reasons.

The bigpond game was playing, but not updating on both machines. The EA game updates straight away.
Why would I particularly need all of that information about my computer when the sole problem with my game was that it was 1. not recognising that it was an out-of-date version and 2. not downloading it's patches.
I did mention the version of the game that I got from the Bigpond games server (1.1.6.107).

Forgetting to tell them that you're on a Mac is fairly major omission. Macs usually have different patches, different services available and the files are structured differently. You assumed that they would infer that from your post, which was a big assumption. New posters around here often can't find the patches just because they think they're allergic to clicking.

As to the subject of Bigpond I understand, beleive me. I have my net with them and they suck big time. However I seriously doubt they'd put up a pirated version. An omission in their service is much more likely. And if you're planning to request a refund, you will NEED to find the file they've missed, otherwise they're not going to treat you seriously.

Just get the TPB version and install the normal-people way.