Sims3Setup.exe won't open at all. [SOLVED]

clauthia wrote:Thank you!

I'm not very sure myself. There were previous attempts in the past few months to download the game, in which the steps requires me to.. (I'm not sure how you call it) but you create a disc where you can mount the game onto it. I ejected the discs this morning and redownloaded the files, and when I double clicked the .iso file, it immediately opened up in the disc, where I see the sims3setup.exe file.

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This is what shows up on my screen, the install does not start immediately after mounting the image. But instead the virtual drive with SIMS3 pops out and when i proceed to click on the sims3setup.exe it shows me the error. :\

clauthia wrote:Thanks so much for your patience! But I have done what you have told me, I clicked on the green triangle that says "Mount", and double clicked on the virtual drive below, but it still opens up the same (H:) SIMS3 thing

clauthia wrote:Yes, they all give me the same error. I'm wondering why there isn't a thumbnail for Autorun.exe and sims3setup.exe, they have missing thumbnails it seems. Could it be that the file is corrupt? But I downloaded it a few times, cleared the cache and all.

clauthia wrote:I created another disc and mounted both at the same time but, the exact same thing happens.  Also the two virtual drives did not have the plumbob thumbnail. It almost seems as like the game is already installed (given that the files like "GameData" are inside) It just doesn't make any sense.

clauthia wrote:YOU SIR, are a technical whiz. Gosh I feel so dumb. You are absolutely right, I didn't use WinRAR to extract the files and it caused the error. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM HAHAHA I LOVE YOU GUYS AND THANKS FOR THE KIND PATIENCE 

clauthia wrote:Hi there! I hope i'm posting this in the correct section..
As the title of this post suggests, I can't seem to open the Sims3Setup.exe at all, so I am unable to even download the game. I get a "This App can't run on your PC. " notice whenever I try to open the Sims3Setup.exe file. My laptop is fairly new, a Lenovo Ideapad and runs on Windows Vista 8, it should have the required specs to run the game as it can run skyrim with a few texture mods.. I've been trying to solve this problem for many months now and to no avail. I'm hoping that someone here can give a suggestion on how to open the Sims3Setup.exe. I have tried changing the compatibility to vista, windows 7, windows xp but it doesn't work. Thank you in advance! 


EDIT: I torrented the files all from games4theworld, not from anywhere else. I also use daemon tools to open up the iso file.

I moved your topic to the correct section, since you did NOT post correctly. Please, for the future, pay more attention to the descriptions of each sub-forum on here. The sections about Sims games are very clearly labelled.

As an interesting sidenote: up until relatively recently, misplaced topics like yours (including any replies by a Helper !) would have been immediately deleted by a Moderator or Admin (can you believe that ?). Now, we usually try moving those threads, as often as possible.