I was going to start a new thread, but since this is related, I won't.

I stopped playing Sims 3 when the fall semester started because college and job-holding are time consuming. Sometime in the interim between then and now, I upgraded my computer from Windows Vista to Windows 7 because Vista is crap. In the process, I lost my Sims 3 installation and never bothered to reinstall because of lack of time. Now I am on spring break and I wish to reinstall Sims 3 and all the expansion packs. I have legit copies of base game and Late Night. I used to have all the EPs/SPs in between, but my asshole friend borrowed them and never gave them back. Anyways, I am now in the process of torrenting copies of all the other EPs and SPs.

While waiting for my downloads to complete, I installed base game. I am planning on following these instructions to get Sims 3 to work. I know about the issues with 1.3x, so I decided to follow MTS's advice and use the super patch to go from retail to 1.29, then incremental from 1.29 to 1.31, then 1.31 to 1.33. I downloaded all the necessary manual patches. I double clicked on the super patch, and I got this error:


I tried googling, but didn't find a whole lot of useful information. Does anyone recognize this error or, better yet, know some sort of workaround?

Side note: Should I patch to current then install EPs, or install EPs then patch to current?

EDIT: Wow, I'm an idiot. I just now noticed that my TS3_1.29.55.0140xx_update.exe was a partial download that IE thought it would be fun to drop. The file size is only 33.4 MB - much smaller than the 862 MB the wiki promised. Redownloading and leaving my message for posterity.

Actually, with the old method, some mods work, others don't. Awesomemod works fine, but most of the script mods and custom content (hair, clothes, etc.) had no effect on my game after the update to 1.12 until I finally gave in and switched to the new method. Some stuff works will the old method, but as far as I can tell, all stuff works with the new method.

This is just my personal experience. Other people might have different results.