Game Help:TS3 PatchingEPNoSP
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Patching Introduction
- If you're also reinstalling Expansion Pack(s) but without any Stuff Pack(s),
- reinstall base-game,
- test load the unpatched base-game first (via the TS3.exe),
- then patch base-game to 1.7
- WA needs base game to be at 1.5 or higher
- after some experiments, found that patching 1.5 then install WA do not have the DeltaBuild packages introduced in 1.3/1.4
- this is also the last known good version with a working Launcher (as of Feb 17, 2010)
- test load the patched base game first
- install WA Expansion Pack
- test load the unpatched Expansion Pack game (via the TS3EP01.exe),
- then patch the Expansion Pack (you can go from retail to current patch version directly eg. 2.2.x_from_2.0.x)
- at this point of time your gameversions are:
- Base GameVersion = Sims3_1.7.9.00200x
- WA GameVersion = Sims3_2.2.8.00200x
- if you want to install Sims3Pack content, do it at this point
- only Sims3Pack compatible with version 1.7/2.2 or lower will be installed successfully
- Sims3Pack compatible with versions higher than 1.7/2.2 will pop-up an error:requires latest update blah blah blah
- finally, if so desired, patch:
- base game to <insert-current-version-here> (eg. 1.x.x_from_1.7.x)
- WA to <insert-current-version-here> (eg. 2.x.x_from_2.2.x)
- test load (via the TS3EP01.exe) a final time before installing CC framework and adding CC
- CC can still be maintained in base-game's Mods path, if things do not appear verify the framework & CC version compatibility and then try them in the WA's Mods path
