Patch 1.3 Released

[Motoki]

Uh if you patch to 1.3 then restore an old 1.27 no cd cracked version of the exe you are reverting to an old exe file and thus defeating the purpose of the patch.

You're still running 1.27 so there's no point in even bothering going through the trouble unless you care about the few other minor things EA updated like burying some blurb in the readme that Adaptive Antialiasing doesn't work well with this game on ATI cards. 

[Tenjho]

Why would you need a no cd crack .exe in the first place? Awesomemod takes care of that for you.

[Xantham]

Despite our general love for all things awesome, some of us do not run Awesome-Mod everytime due to conflicts.

Therefore when AM is not up and running, we need a no-cd crack.

What would be great is if Pescado was able to make a stand-alone no-cd for 1.3

[Mazza]

Whatever else the damn patch does it also caused the mac to kernel panic, crash and need a reboot.

JM is right about the launcher, the thing sucks.

[Orlando]

Uh if you patch to 1.3 then restore an old 1.27 no cd cracked version of the exe you are reverting to an old exe file and thus defeating the purpose of the patch.

You're still running 1.27 so there's no point in even bothering going through the trouble unless you care about the few other minor things EA updated like burying some blurb in the readme that Adaptive Antialiasing doesn't work well with this game on ATI cards. 

I was perusing  the thread and this jostled my curiosity. I installed 1.3 no problem, and I still run from the TS3.exe that came with the game .iso (razor release)
So if I am using the 1.27 TS3.exe after the 1.3 patch, I'm not running the latest version but rather 1.27? I don't see how that works since its running fine with the newest awesome mod build.
Will it make a diff if I just pull the file out now? How is it defeating the purpose of the patch?

[InPinkClover]

Hello, all.  I attempted to install this patch last night, and was unsuccessful, as I had forgotten that I overwrote the original "VideoCamera.ini" file. 

Ahhhh, finally the solution to my problem, thanks!

[Kerryee]

I give up.  After reinstalling my game 3 times trying to get the damn thing patched AND working, I still have fail.  This last time, I thought it was working, until 2 minutes into gameplay, my new character froze.  Everything around her worked, but she was a statue, and so were her stats.  So I reset her, try again with a new task, and she not only freezes, but disappears.

I'm reinstalling vanilla again, patching to 1.2.7, and then calling it for now.  It was working just fine with the glitches.

[Sigmund]

Whatever else the damn patch does it also caused the mac to kernel panic, crash and need a reboot.

I've not experienced any crashing on my macbook (yet), but what is your gameplay like?

After installing the patch onto my mac, the game lags and freezes like crazy, even with all the settings changed to low. It now freezes for 2-3 seconds everytime I scroll or zoom, and I'm wondering if it has something to do with the supposed "fix" for the shadows listed in the description.

[ShortyBoo]

My game won't patch. I tried several times, and I can't figure out why it's not working. The first patch didn't give me any problems. The first time I tried I got "Update Error: Invalid File Found" but it didn't tell me which file was invalid. The next time I tried, I got "The Sims 3 Update cannot continue because programs associated with The Sims 3 are currently running. Please stop these applications before attempting to update The Sims 3." At that time, all I had running was the launcher. I really can't figure out what's wrong. I haven't changed anything with any of the files. And I only have a few downloads, mainly AM and a few clothing, hair, patterns, and default skintones. I tried removing my Mods folder and trying to patch, but it still failed. Is there anything I'm missing that I should try?

[DentedLemons]

Well I've had no problems installing the patch, but after playing an hour or so this evening, I'm WISHING I hadn't installed

My sim has become extremely ... slow?    In between every single action she does, she stops and stands still for several sim minutes. Poor thing was starving by the time she got dinner made. Go to fridge .. stand still for a few minutes.. open fridge .. stand still for a few minutes.. get ingredients .. stand still for a few minutes .. walk to food processor .. stand still.. And it's not that the game is lagging, the minutes on the clock are moving along normally and animations like the stereo and water spouting out of the broken shower are perfectly smooth.
 

[Leticron]

@ShortyBoo: Mods are no problem (like Pes already stated, those are new folders that are not involved in the patch process).
To find out where the patch process choked, you'll have to find the most recent file rtpatch.log on your drive, open it with any editor and scroll down to the last line. The exact location of said file depends on your OS and your login account.

Typical candidates for easily overlooked, altered files would be:
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\GameData\Shared\NonPackaged\Ini\VideoCamera.ini" (better camera mod).
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Shaders_Win32.precomp" (the old censor remover ).
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe" (No CD Patch).
"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TSLHost.dll" (also delivered with some no-CD patch).

The Launcher must be closed during patching since it might or might not be altered by the patch and  the OS usually denies the modification of files in use through patches.

-le

[Lum]

I ran the patch and it worked perfectly, even with all mods installed, because I live dangerously like that. Without running the game, I installed new awesome mod update, deleted scriptscache, then ran the game and it's still alive.

So, here's a helpful new voodoo spell: delete the scriptscache.

(Bare in mind I have a Reloaded-to-Razor that I had to fix way back with the first patch. So Reloaded/Razor users should probably look into that.)

[SimsSandra]

Well I've had no problems installing the patch, but after playing an hour or so this evening, I'm WISHING I hadn't installed

My sim has become extremely ... slow?    In between every single action she does, she stops and stands still for several sim minutes. Poor thing was starving by the time she got dinner made. Go to fridge .. stand still for a few minutes.. open fridge .. stand still for a few minutes.. get ingredients .. stand still for a few minutes .. walk to food processor .. stand still.. And it's not that the game is lagging, the minutes on the clock are moving along normally and animations like the stereo and water spouting out of the broken shower are perfectly smooth.
 

I am having the same problem -- takes the Sims like 2 hrs to get supper done... plus I cannot just click on the bed to have them go to bed -- they just stand around as if they are blocked by something... I have to get them to go to the stairs, then up the stairs, then to the bedroom door, then through the door and then to bed....  The arrival of the schoolbus/carpool cannot get them to go to it... they stay lost in the house or yard... I have to direct them step by step to the bus/car....

[LVRugger]

EDIT TO ADD:
Direct link for patches in Mac OS X.

US 1.3 patch (zone code 1)
Europe 1.3 patch (zone code 2)
Digital Download 1.3 patch (zone code 107)

Thanks for these links, but for some reason they won't work with the direct download version (yeah, I know, I bought it ugh). There is bitching and moaning at the bbs about the direct download version needed a different patch that is not available yet. Do you know any workarounds or do you think I'm stuck waiting for EAxis to fix the latest fail?

[NorthernStar]

Well, I can't actually get the patch to install - when I try and do it from the launcher, just clicking on "Update Now" causes the game to shut itself down every time. When I downloaded the patch from here to try that instead, I get this error message, even after restarting the computer:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/TruBellezzan/sims3patcherror.jpg

Actually, I can't get it to uninstall either - the same error pops up. Any ideas about what is causing it? My brother said that it's some kind of corrupted file and then waltzed off leaving me not much clearer.

[LuciaSama]

Well, I can't actually get the patch to install - when I try and do it from the launcher, just clicking on "Update Now" causes the game to shut itself down every time. When I downloaded the patch from here to try that instead, I get this error message, even after restarting the computer:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/TruBellezzan/sims3patcherror.jpg

Actually, I can't get it to uninstall either - the same error pops up. Any ideas about what is causing it? My brother said that it's some kind of corrupted file and then waltzed off leaving me not much clearer.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,16106.msg464736.html#msg464736

[Zamboni]

Is there a censor remover for 1.3? A standalone version?

[LuciaSama]

Is there a censor remover for 1.3? A standalone version?

AM will remove the horrid blur if you're using it. There is a standalone version here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=343951

[GnatGoSplat]

Despite our general love for all things awesome, some of us do not run Awesome-Mod everytime due to conflicts.

Therefore when AM is not up and running, we need a no-cd crack.

What would be great is if Pescado was able to make a stand-alone no-cd for 1.3

I agree.  It's also useful because although I prefer to use Awesomemod, my wife prefers to run without any mods.  I also prefer having a cracked TS3.exe because if I do remove Awesomemod, I don't need the DVD.
Here is the only NoCD crack I've found so far that claims to be for 1.3.24.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&u=http://www.playground.ru/cheats/26201/
I haven't tried it yet.  It comes from a Russian site so be sure to run a virus check on it.

[Nova]

Here is the only NoCD crack I've found so far that claims to be for 1.3.24

Has anybody tried this yet?  Also, has anybody found a different version that is proven to work?

[snabul]

Do I have to replace the "d3dx9_31.dll" of framework by the original one before patching?

Edit: I tried it out, I do not need to.

[Silverdrake]

Eureka! I kept getting the "File Not Found" error, even though I had put back the original shaders and videocamera files. Then, I remembered that I had removed the default family packages from the library. I copied those back in from the cd, and it updated just fine.

I haven't tried running it yet... 

[ShortyBoo]

Well, it turned out to be erroring on SkyCommon.ini which is a file I never even heard of, and since I never changed any of my files, I know I didn't do it. I'll grab the original file from the disc and hopefully that will fix it.

Edit: Well, I replaced the SkyCommon.ini with the one from the disc (the files were the same size, the only difference was the date) and the game patched. I still haven't tried playing, but at least I got that out of the way.

When I was looking for the file I had to replace, I noticed that there are config files for different sky states, like stormy, cloudy, etc. which makes me wonder if they started to put weather in, but in the end decided to take it out, just like they did with TS2.

[Sigmund]

Well, I think I've officially fucked my game up with this patch. Are any other mac users having success with this thing? I tried uninstalling/reinstalling, but the freezing and lag is still unbearable, and on top of that the most expensive desk is one giant black mess. I tried reinstalling and not updating to the patch, but the game won't run without the first mac patch, which apparently has been rolled into this most recent one since I can't find it anywhere else.

I'd really like to smack whatever idiot(s) at EA did this.

[GnatGoSplat]

Here is the only NoCD crack I've found so far that claims to be for 1.3.24

Has anybody tried this yet?  Also, has anybody found a different version that is proven to work?

I'll let you know in the next 6-8hrs if nobody else tries it.  BTW, Symantec Endpoint says it's clean.