Yeah, guess that's the reality I'm facing. And for my last noobie question -- is it possible to run the Reloaded version without a crack? I thought even the No-CD mods/cracks/whatever required changing a couple of the files?

For my last Hail Mary attempt I'm installing Generations on top of the regular base game, and extracting TSLHost.dll from that folder. Not sure if the contents of TSLHost.dll change with regards to what you have installed, but it's worth a shot. Otherwise I have a hell of a job ahead of me trying to find all the DMGs and all my CC..

Edit: SUCK IT.
I fixed it. Here's the unpatched, original TSLHost.dll for you daphoenyx. Just updated my game, so I know it works. http://www.mediafire.com/?z701kv49aql3947

That's one way to look at it, sure.

No shit.
I'm usually pretty good at that - I keep them backed up (I have TS3W.exe, TS3W-original.exe and TS3W-crack.exe) and color-coded in the original folder, so I can easily use whichever version I want, but I just forgot it this time around.
So lesson learned, and my daily backup has already run and updated all the files, so I'm at a loss here.

Anyways, if you happen to have the unpatched, original TSLHost.dll lying around somewhere, feel free to upload it, because I have no idea how to get it back - it didn't appear after reinstalling Generations, even after removing the cracked TSLHost.dll so it wouldn't get confused, and I can't find it lurking around in the installer either.

I'll even buy you a beer if you're ever near me if you could be so kind.

Thanks! Unfortunately it got the wrong SHA1 checksum when trying to update, so I guess I'm back to square one. Will search moar and try something smart (already tried reinstalling)

Just two threads, don't worry.

Also, I just reinstalled Generations, and it didn't change the TSLHost.dll file.. I'm not sure if it's because I left the cracked one untouched in the folder, so I'll try to remove it again. And anger issues much?

Second edit: No, I removed Generations, removed my cracked TSLHost.dll, and it didn't put it back. No luck there, so I either have to reinstall the entire game and find all my CC (I have a decent amount as .sims3packs), or wait for a few hours (while I'm asleep) for a decent human being to upload a pure, vanilla TSLHost.dll to help someone out a great deal by doing a 1 minute job. I will be grateful if anyone wants to help me out, that's for sure.

Anyone got the original TSLHost.dll file? Forgot to back mine up (), so now I can't update my game, and the Reloaded version keeps crashing on me.

I think I screwed up. I was trying to update (I thought I had the newest update, but clearly I didn't), and I forgot to back up my TSLHost.dll file. Is it possible to find this somewhere, or do I have to reinstall Generations in order to get it back?

Game seems unstable here - crashes regularly with exceptions errors thrown at me. (Mac OS X).

I'm trying to make a new Electronic Arts-folder, and then playing from that so there won't be any old cache files making a mess for me - but how do I move over all the CC I have installed through the launcher? I'm not really interested in downloading that again, and I don't want to play without it either. Which folder contains those files?