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Title: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: LeaveMeAlone on 2007 April 06, 20:03:12 Amazing how a once pretty simple process has become the frustrating shit that it has. After numerous attempts, neither patch will install, I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...." I removed my downloads folder, tried to patch again, nothing. Of course during the course of this, I decide to be a complete and utter jackass and order Celebration stuff. Hey, what do you know..."this patch is for the Sims2 Pets, but you have a more recent expansion pack installed. To make sure you have the latest updates, you may need to download the update for your latest expansion pack." Well, that's wonderful, however, I can't very well do that, now can I?
Ideas? Insights? Suggestions? Figured it was worth a shot here, than elsewhere. Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: Venusy on 2007 April 06, 20:15:37 Amazing how a once pretty simple process has become the frustrating shit that it has. After numerous attempts, neither patch will install, I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...." I removed my downloads folder, tried to patch again, nothing. Of course during the course of this, I decide to be a complete and utter jackass and order Celebration stuff. Hey, what do you know..."this patch is for the Sims2 Pets, but you have a more recent expansion pack installed. To make sure you have the latest updates, you may need to download the update for your latest expansion pack." Well, that's wonderful, however, I can't very well do that, now can I? There are times when the EA advice is the best advice. If you've modified files in the Program Files S2Seasons/Pets directories, and know which ones they are, then you could try restoring the files from the CD. If you have a NO-CD EXE in, then replace it with the EA one temporarily. If you don't know what the problem is, then just follow the EA advice.Ideas? Insights? Suggestions? Figured it was worth a shot here, than elsewhere. Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: LeaveMeAlone on 2007 April 07, 01:28:42 I haven't modified any files and I don't have a NO-CD EXE in. I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here.
Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: Venusy on 2007 April 07, 01:33:36 I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here. I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...." This was what I meant by "EA advice". If you've tried everything else, then it looks like the best solution.Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: phyllis_p on 2007 April 07, 02:42:19 I haven't found any advice from EA, and that's what brought me here. I get the standard "error during update installation...you may need to uninstall and reinstall...." This was what I meant by "EA advice". If you've tried everything else, then it looks like the best solution.After my own experiments in patching, this is what I ended up doing for my sweetie's game when we got Celebrations. I backed up his folder, uninstalled Seasons, patched Pets, reinstalled Seasons, inserted copy of back up, patched Seasons, installed Celebrations. Worked fine, works fine. Slightly time-consuming, which is why I did it for him - things like this annoy him, but I don't mind it. Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: Simlover on 2007 April 08, 22:44:19 I got the "uninstall and reinstall" message when trying to patch seasons. On Twains advise I did uninstall and reinstall Seasons and the patch worked fine. :)
Title: Re: What a surprise....Pets and Seasons patch problems Post by: cenoura on 2007 April 12, 22:35:19 I've heard that installing seasons forces you to patch pets, likewise when installing celebrations. Don't have experience of this tho as I don't have the lastest games.
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