Sims 4 games downloaded perfectly but not showing up in game?

so i've downloaded sims 3 expansions here in the past so when i decided that sims 4 vanilla was too boring i decided to get some packs for that as well. (i have the offical sims4 base game) i used utorrent to get all the .rar files, i unzipped them, and applied them to my C:\Program Files (x86)\The Sims 4 (i moved it from electronic arts to its own file like the directions said). i believe i followed the directions perfectly and everything was in the right place, but when i open the game i get the "origin needs to be running" error, and when i leave origin open, theres no packs in my game. i read all other forum posts about this issue and did the following:

-I closed origin with task manager before opening my game. i recieved the "origin must run to play this game" error and it wouldnt start.

-I left origin open when it opened itself but my game insisted on downloading an update that is apparently 20 hours long.( i paused it because i was afraid it would mess things up) when sims did open with origin open, it had no expansions and i received a pop up saying my saved games had a newer patch than i was running at the moment (explains why my origin had a million updates running)

-i factory reset and used a whole new sims 4 file

-ran origin offline & ran it online

i really would rather not use the ultimate fix because it took me forever to get these games to download and i don't want to re do it if its probably not going to help.

So i guess my questions are: what on earth did i do wrong? all of my packs seem to be in the right place. i really didn't want to have to make my own forum post, but every other one i found with this issue was on a linux ( im on windows 8 so it doesn't exactly help )or ended up with someone linking them back to the original instructions WHICH I HAVE READ OVER AND OVER AGAIN. i assume i'm missing something or skipped a step. if anyone could help that would be great

i also forgot to mention that once when i attempted to start up the game without origin it will actually open but end up stuck on the spinning plumbob for like 45 minutes and for some reason i just started it up and its doing that again. ill probabaly let it load longer this time instead of using task mnaager to cancel it.

Thank you! i will try that and reply back if it solves anything.

Okay so i did that but now im getting an error saying my video card is out of date or cannot run the game or something. not sure if you are familiar with that error or if i should get a screenshot. im pretty sure my norton didnt delete any of the files i added.

this is what my bin looks like right now. am i missing anything or are there any doubles in here ?

Go to your folder Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 and remove the file Config.log.
The start your game again.

Also, based on your screenshot you have a couple of files called DiP_STAGED.
That means that they are not yet installed completely.
Most probably they are caused by an (unfinished) ZLOrigin or Origin installation .

EDIT:
I also noted a .rar file. That should be unpacked first.

Polarbear wrote:Go to your folder Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4 and remove the file Config.log.
The start your game again.

Also, based on your screenshot you have a couple of files called DiP_STAGED.
That means that they are not yet installed completely.
Most probably they are caused by an (unfinished) ZLOrigin or Origin installation .

will the dip_staged files cause a problem? i deleted the config file and it didn't change anything

The dip-staged files are incomplete files, the installation still has to finish.
Maybe you broke off an installation.
Redo it again.

Your Game/Bin folder is pretty messed up.
I suggest you either remove all installations and start again OR you let ZLOrigin repair your game.

ok well now its just saying that my graphics card cant run the game. should i run it as like windows 7 or something?