SIMS 3 FRUSTRATING PROBLEM!!!! [SOLVED]

abhi2395 wrote::newfag: hello to the lovely members of games4theworld. As this is my first post I'd like to inform right out what a great job everybody is doing here. Helping us poor bastards who cant afford to buy the sims 3 legally is indeed a noble cause deserving of a nobel prize in my opinion  . But keeping aside all the ******** let me get straight to the point now:
A Few months later I had the sims 3 installed on my Laptop in a drive other than C ( ill get to this later why I mentioned here specifically) i.e. in my F Drive as I had reserved C for system related files, and it was also advised to me that if hard-disk goes corrupt, then any important files in C drive would also be washed away, but if it was in any other drive other than C (like D,E,F...etc) then a backup could be taken and the imp piece of info. could be saved. By following  that mantra I had it installed on my F drive like I told earlier, played it to my heart's content and then after another few months later ( im really sorry I cant mention the exact time interval as im too lazy to remember it   ) I installed seasons from games4theworld's torrent. I'd like to mention here that I had bought the base game from a local CD-shop which was offcourse illegal i.e. it was downloaded of a different torrent (i guess) other than games4theworld by that guy who ran the shop. Then after all the usual struggles during installing , I somehow got it to run and then again enjoyed seasons too. Now just a few days back( I guess last week), I thought it was time to move on to a new expansion and that Is when I decided to download University Life( U.L), and immediately started it.It was from none other than games4theworld torrent (huge shoutout to u people    ). After struggling with the download part as I have a slow internet connection, I somehow finished downloading it and tried to install. At that time my base game version was very much outdated and I hadn't realized. But then before I had continued downloading UL I kept it on hold for the moment and tried downloading the update from the sims 3 launcher. The update got downloaded very well but couldn't install and it had to be terminated. I just ignored it and continued with my UL download. And then During the installation of UL after a successful download it asked me that whether I would like to update the base game version as it was downloaded but not installed but probably saved somewhere. I just clicked OK, the game got updated, UL got installed. Now when I tried to run the game it loaded just fine until the screen where we have to choose the player. Then a message popped up saying "No game disc found. Please insert the sims 3 university life disc before proceeding".   After googling for a fix I found the same problem a different member faced and who had posted here in G4TW : https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t13884-the-sims-3-university-life-no-game-disc-found-problem-solved. If you can spare the time and take a look at the link I provided above, I followed J.T's advice and did all those 4 steps ( in the 2nd step i.e the ultimate fix step I downloaded labeled *not working* anyhow and tried applying). I had to again painstakingly download the manual patch as its a 1.63 GB download, wait patiently till it completed and then tried to apply it but came up with an error "AGAIN"!
now the error was this:
0x80040702 missing DLL:Dsetup.
So I googled for another possible fix searchin whether I could find the dll file separately for download but ended up finding this software:
DLL files fixer.
I installed it and ran it. It downloaded the missing DLL file Dsetup  for me but as it was a trial kind of version it could only allow me to fix 15 errors out of a possible 561 odd errors (what an      ) so I just continued anyway. Now tried installing the manual patch and would you believe it, IT GOT INSTALLED! I was so  F'ing  relieved that all my problems were over but then while I tried to run Seasons firstly to check whether it would run, now a different error came up:
Unable to start game Service Initialization failed, followed by some numbers.
After again scavenging for help I realized from several websites as well as G4TW that a full uninstall and re-install would be advisable. Anywho I uninstalled everything right upto the last registry key all of them (Base game, seasons) and then ran Ccleaner for registry issues, fixed them too, and then started a fresh installation of the base game following the video on how to install it correctly (I did not follow the daemon tools part):
https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t1171-must-read-how-to-install-the-sims-3-correctly
Then  I installed sims 3 and got it to work and it worked. Now I tried installing the seasons expansion firstly then even before it could start installing a message pops up saying:
"This product requires an installed copy of the sims 3...etc"  . Now I guess im done looking here and there and as I've seen countless no. of people having their problems solved here, my kind request to all the admins,mods,members etc to help a fan of Sims 3 get back to playing his game with all the expansions as before.  
( My sincere apologies if what i've written seems a bit too long and hard for you'll to read, I just wanted to convey my problem in a clean cut way to avoid any confusions that I've seen arise in other topics)
Help would surely be appreciated   . Thanking you in advance!! 

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Hello,

I hope you're trying to install all your games on one hard-drive only ?

Besides that, there is not much else left what comes to my mind; it's possible though that your base game causes a few issues - so you might want to try re-downloading the G4TW version of it (I know in your case this is not the best solution, but yes).

Before you do that though, try doing again a proper un-install. Download "Your Un-installer Pro !" (available from G4TW on Piratebay). When you open the program try just un-installing the base game; so double-click on the base game icon and choose "Super mode". Follow the instructions on-screen.

After that, re-boot the computer. Then re-install the base game. And after that, re-do the steps from 2 to 4 here: https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t1171-must-read-how-to-install-the-sims-3-correctly

See if that works for you and let us know  - good luck !

P.S. don't use swearwords anymore; even though you don't mean it in an offensive way, it's still against the rules of the forum, and it also means that instead of helping people I have to spend a little bit more time to censor posts.

abhi2395 wrote:I guess as you've said, the base game and the expansions may be clashing. Because the base game was not downloaded from G4TW but both the expansions were. So I guess i'll just re-download the base game from your torrent. Hope it works!! Also I downloaded Your Unin-staller! pro and as I had deleted the base game earlier to opening a topic here, it didn't show any icon and I guess it has been totally erased (or I hope so).And also as you mentioned earlier, I was also trying to install everything i.e. base game, seasons and UL on the same drive F. I hope that didn't cause any problems.


And i apologise on the swearing part   . I'll try and follow the rules of the forum as far as possible.  
Once again I appreciated the fast reply. Thanks a ton!!
I'll update as soon as I finish downloading the base game!

abhi2395 wrote:Now as I type, the base game is about to be finished downloading. After that is it O.K if I install the base game, seasons, and university life on the same drive i.e. F? I know its better if we install in C drive but as i have very low space in it i dont have any other option. And also  I'll follow the steps 2-4 from this :
https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t1171-must-read-how-to-install-the-sims-3-correctly
After I install everything(base game, expansions) I'll update manually, and download and apply the fix. So far is it alright?

abhi2395 wrote:Oh My God!!!!!! It worked!!! I cant tell you how happy I am right now! thanks a ton you guys for helping me out especially carlos , chowdary!! Dude's you'll are dope!! G4TW rules!!! \m/ Thanks once again!! It started and I can play UL now!! :')