More Awesome Than You!

There's a new update out. I'm waiting to install it, though. Here's what it says it includes:

New Features

· Sims that drive extensively can now develop a relationship with their vehicles.  Vehicles can be named once a friendship is formed.

· The Vehicle Enthusiast Trait is now available.  Sims with this trait can name their vehicles immediately and develop relationships with them more quickly.

Base Game Updates

·  Fixed an issue where ghosts could become stuck in vehicles under certain conditions. Ghosts will now properly exit vehicles after arriving at their destination.

·  Nameable items can only be named when they belong to the active household.

World Adventures Updates

·  Career titles for Sims visiting Egypt, France and China will now display in the Relationship Panel tooltips.

The Sims 3 Create a World

·  Create a World users need to install a new version of The Sims 3 Create a World Tool.  Users can find the Create a World page from the "Games" drop down in the site header.

AAAAH!!!!!

Um... this patch just borderlines on useless EA.

Links? My launcher is still FUBARed. 0.0.0.0 style.

And as soon as we get exact version numbers, the fun can commence.

Will these be exact enough? Ripped 'em from a n00bs 'help me it broke itself' thread @ official site.

- Base Game
Version: 1.15.34.008002
- World Adventures
Version: 2.7.7.006002
- High-End Loft Stuff
Version: 3.0.38.004001
- Ambitions
Version: 4.2.32.007001 

Base game patch link region 1
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.15.34.008001_from_1.14.11.007001.exe

Thanks guys, adding links to the Patch Link Generator (http://awtmk.blogspot.com/2010/07/patch-link-generator.html)


Only Base is valid.  ::)

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Here are the links for the latest patches:

Base Game: http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.15.34.008002_from_1.14.11.007002.exe (http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_1.15.34.008002_from_1.14.11.007002.exe)
World Adventures: http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_2.10.5.008002_from_2.9.10.007002.exe (http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_2.10.5.008002_from_2.9.10.007002.exe)
High-End Loft Stuff: http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_3.6.6.008001_from_3.5.8.007001.exe (http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_3.6.6.008001_from_3.5.8.007001.exe)
Ambitious: http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_4.3.4.008001_from_4.2.32.007001.exe (http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_4.3.4.008001_from_4.2.32.007001.exe)

The stupid launcher installs Ambitious first so the rest won't install any more, not even manually.
Have reinstalled my game and patched immediately before continuing with the next EP/SP. Works fine now.

Ah, my bad.

Now we just have to wait for AwesomeMod. Should be simple right? I mean this patch barely does ANYTHING.

FUCK it says invalid file found on the WA patch when it gets to TS3EP01.exe AND the High End Loft Stuff patch has a 404 error. Try this:

This one doesn't appear to lead to a valid link. I can't see anything wrong with the URL - is the new patch number correct?

Try this: HELS
http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/Sims3_3.6.6.008001_from_3.5.8.007001.exe

EDIT: I can't install the High End Loft Stuff one either. 'Invalid File Found' when it reaches TS3SP01.exe.

That works, ta. You may want to modify your original post so people don't keep telling you forever that it doesn't work.   ::)

Uninstalling everything and manually patching from the links found @ MTS. Maybe that'll stop the damn Invalid problem i'm having.

Invalid File is a mismatch error, the setup verify the hash of the core files, if any does not validates with the original ones, this error is thrown.

Since it stops at the executable I assume you have an arr'ED copy? If so, replace the executable with the original one.

Link modified.


It did work for me. I think the patches should be installed base game first and the EP/SP in order they have been released.

Nope, my copy is retail and I use the disc.


That's what I plan to do.

EDIT: Perfect. Just FUCKING PERFECT. I can't even play the unpatched basegame without any EPs or SPs without it saying 'Incompatible Data' or something like that. Not to mention that the game takes 40 minutes to install each fucking time...

Looks like EAxis actually fixed ONE bug this time! Also, test version available.

^ Downloading now.

Finally fixed my problem... it was the Large Address Aware fix that modified the original exes... My fail.

Is the new SP out today?  I was wondering why they'd update just to add a car lover trait, and then I remembered the upcoming SP was about vehicles.

Yeah, it's coming out today in the US. Friday for the UK.

FYI The region numbers are different for the the 1st two links vs the last two, Region 2 and region 1, easy to fix just change the the last number in the patch number to your region.

Just use the auto-patch-downloader thing. It works flawlessly, assuming it already knows there's a new patch.

Vehicle relationships are a cute idea. Makes it a little harder to toss the car you started with if your sim made buddies with it as a teen and gave it a name.

^^ It doesn't know about the patch yet.
I'll wait for the patch downloader to notice the new patches 'cause I don't fancy losing an hour of my evening because the damned EA method left me half-patched like last time. Morons.

The launcher didn't say there was an update, but I have installed Fast Lane stuff and the game got updated to 5.0.44.00801

Looks like this patch changed the lighting again.

It now render all the floor's shadows to be cast at every floor. Before it rendered only the current floor from below.
Unfortunately they did not fixed the issue where lights you put yourself does not cast light at upper floors, onyl the current one.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EmQs4VhCfOU/TIZ-78cHlJI/AAAAAAAAAMc/XZ8xcHP2ljI/s320/EA.7S10.LIGHT1.jpg)
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_EmQs4VhCfOU/TIZ-9WgvsPI/AAAAAAAAAMk/_EzRNnHcUec/s320/EA.7S10.LIGHT2.jpg)

There are some gaps over where the shadow origins though, something to fix again.

Says the creep who enjoys making his sims have intimate relationships with family members. Dude, your idea of what is appropriate and "cute" is beyond fucked up.

Do the shadows in general look any different? Updated shadows might mean they fixed that stupid issue with some cards where the shadows have more giant pixels than an atari game.

You are going to have a lot of people going "WTF!?!1 It says invalid file!" throughout this thread unless you change that or just add a little note that it is not for the people who have installed the patches that have come before. For a few moments I couldn't figure out why the fuck I would have an invalid file, I'm really careful about that crap.

My invalid file was just the Large Address Aware fix. Something for 64bit users to check.

This whole patching thing is  really starting to get ridiculous. 1 patch = approx. 35 MB. Times 4 (for EP`s, SP and base game) - approx 140 MB. I wonder what will happen when they cough out more EPs...easily 1 GB of your internet bandwidth spent on patches alone. God dammit, EA. God dammit!

Oh no! 1GB of bandwidth over the course of 5 years? The fees will just pile up and pile up! :(

Even if you mean "Eventually it'll be 1GB per patch", that's STILL not even CLOSE to being an issue, and there are games with much worse.

It IS an issue if you`re on a limited bandwidth like me. But since that is of no significance to you or anybody else for that matter, I`m just going to say -


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:P How limited? 2GB??? 3? I'm getting 50GB a month so size ain't a problem.

10. Yipee. Right?

And thanks to that patch downloader, it would seem I`m made of FAIL - it d/l and installed latest patches, and now I`m getting an error message each time I start the game, even though I do have an option to continue the game, and it seems to work. Why did it download and install a wrong version of a patch, if it`s able to detect the region number? All though, it would seem the right version was downloaded after all (by looking at previous patches I applied). Usual method applied (removed all mods and CC, cleared cache files, the whole thing).

Meh, whatever. I`ll do a reinstall later. I just don`t give a fuck right now.

And again -

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I fucked something up, because I can't get free Store content to work anymore.

What, you pay for that? Go back to dialup, dialup is at least 16 GB/mo. 10 GB/mo is like old 33.6k. No point in even calling that broadband, may as well just go back to dialup.

Wow, really?  And people with Comcast cable internet were bitching about a 250GB a month limit.

Me explaining to you why it is the way it is would be...ugh, too long. Short version -

- I don`t have a fixed phone line (using a cell phone for all my...affairs?)
- I live in a former commie country where you pay MORE and get LESS
- They can haz my interwebz

And in other news - Jonha`s slider hack is no longer supported by this patch version and will need an update (that`s why I was getting an "unsupported content" message), and it would seem I d/l a wrong version of beta AM, b/c my game is spitting it out too. Yes, I`m made of that much fail. And not a fuck was given that day.

Oh yea, and - vehicle enthusiast? Like, WTF?! XD Naming your car would be just as lame as guys naming their penises. And I for one know Mr. Pinky agrees.  ;D

Seriously? What do they do? Download 24/7?

I just patched my game manually. I don't know why but the HELS patch refused to install. The other 3 worked fine. I just put all my back ups back into my game (Downloads, Mods/Packages...etc.) and added the test AM. Everything is fine. I read on the official forums that the game doesn't check for in-between patches, only the earliest and latest installs.

Has anyone else experienced this? I still have Fast Lane to install; I just wanted to see if I could get into the game without it throwing errors for a missing patch. As for HELS, I've already tried replacing the original EXE and TSLHost.dll, also trading the entire Game/Bin folder from my original torrent (renaming files where needed). It didn't work for me.

Yep, I had the same problem. I uninstalled Ambitions, reinstalled HELS then patched it, reinstalled Amibitons and patched that, then installed Fast Lane.

Check your rtpatch.log found in your temp folder in one of the randomly numbered subfolders inside. When the patch has an issue, it throws up this file. You can check it to see which file is the issue.

I can download 250GBs in 34 hours total.

Well, I think the chief complaint was that Comcast wasn't upfront about the monthly limit, and people were getting their internet cut off without warning when they passed the threshold.

What a pointless patch.  All we get is some stupid stuff about cars and ONE minor bug fix when there are so many others needing fixing.  This is all we get for having the lighting system totally borked.  Doesn't EA ever get anything right?  (Oh wait, I already know the answer to that one.  ;))

Doesn't the game update on its own when you install the newest game, anyway? Like it did with all the previous EPs/SPs? Why do you patch before installing Fast Lane?

Last time I updated I had to remove CAW first, wonder if this might be the issue you're having here.
I just hate updating this game, it usually means "reinstall the whole damn thing every f*cking time"...

Only if you are letting it connect with the 'net, which many of us don't for various reasons.

Because sometimes letting it do it's thing fucks shit up. Myself and many others had an odd conflict message after the install of AMB that would not allow the running of the game. Turns out AMB didn't patch every pack and SP.

When I installed the patch my HELS exe got removed from the install folder - nothing else got removed so I had to copy the exe from the game disc and put it back into the install folder.  I used the patch downloader from MTS to repatch HELS and again the exe dissapeared from the folder. In the end I got a fully patched exe for HELS from a NO-CD site and finally my HELS exe is staying put and says it is fully patched.

it seems that the new patch screwed up caw aswell. Does anyone have the dl link to the newest world tool?

Damn it, never had problems with it myself. That's the only patch method that didn't ever force me to reinstall the whole game. I don't know where the fault was, but trying to update manual to 4.2 I had to download one update file like 17 times, each time having borked file that wouldn't work (and yes, I downloaded the right region), before I gave up and updated through the launcher:(

I believe it's still the same link it was before.

What about when an event, either good or bad, happens the promotion music plays instead

I've noticed that all the "event" icons on the map have changed to a star, including the adventure icons in WA, but I don't know if that's a bug or a "feature".  :P

That's not new. It's been like that since Ambitions came out. They also added a very ugly effect to all location/opportunity etc. icons that show in town view.

Ah.  I was too busy playing with the new AMB stuff to visit the foreign locations, and didn't notice the change until after I had installed the new SP.

Anyone noticed a major slowdown after installing FL? I removed it and my game is fine again,

No, you're not alone. I only get this with the latest patch. I get that "dee do do dee do do, DEE DO DO DEE DO DO" music constantly, but only after the patch. I didn't realize this is what was happening, though.

I did. Probably my computer though.

My game is taking longer to load things, but I think it cleared the caches when it installed is all. It got better after a while and is still getting better.

Yes, they said on the first post of this thread that EA said to download a new one. There is a thread around here that tells you how to get it. Just view the page source for the EA page that it is on, and search the page for the .exe, then use the address it shows.

Nope.  My saved games are actually loading faster than before the patch and FL, and game play runs the same as before, maybe slightly better, but not enough to go wow.

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Ok then. So it's not a 'my game' problem. Either way, it's fucking annoying.

does anyone else have to re-install the cc through the launcher all the time or just me ?

I had some previously-installed things pop up as "ready to install" on the launcher, but when I went to reinstall them, I got the "Already Installed" on each and every one, and they're all still in my game.  I took Tingeling's advice and moved all my already-installed Sims3Packs into a subfolder inside the Downloads folder.  Now I don't have to worry about false uninstalls, AND my launcher loads almost immediately.

Since this latest patch and the addition of FL, I've had to split my mods folder. All CC (clothes, decor, etc) are in the C:/programs/ea/sims3/mods/packages and all the mods have to be in the my documents/ea/sims3/mods/packages. For some reason the mods will not work in the programs folder anymore.

Possible bug. My sim has sculpted some "missing objects". They appear as white or glowing red cubes. I don't have FLS installed.

I''ll bet you 50 dollars you downloaded a popular sculpting mod without reading the instructions.

Oh silly shouty vole.

This is a known bug. Heck, I've had it. It happens when you don't have the free upgrade for Ambitions that was offered at the store/through the Launcher/whatever. See the Store thread in Pudding Factory to get it.

I don't care for this upgrade. But seriously, they screwed up like that? I've had sculptors before that patch and this never popped up. I assumed it must've been EA punishing me for not getting the latest stuff pack.

The missing objects didn't come with the latest stuff pack, they were with Ambitions.  If you legally bought and registered Ambitions, you could download it from the store, it was a bonus pack which included additional sculptures, inventions, etc, it has absolutely nothing to do with FL.  Otherwise it is available from here, and works without having to register the game, just go looking for it.

Can someone upload the files TS3.exe and TSLHost.exe, the ones installed by the 5.0 update ? I replaced them with [k]'ed versions but it was late and I forget to make copies of them, and since I'm not in my country right now, I don't have my original DVD to reinstall the game.
I'm stuck with a non working game until someone can upload them.
Thanks.

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