Unsure what to do.

I need some help with this problem please.

I've been trying to put my The Sims 3 and downloaded expansions on my desktop and I am having problems. I don't know what I am doing wrong as I have some expansions on my laptop and they worked fine. At first I tried putting all the expansions in at once. That didn't work. Then I uninstalled everything including the base game (which I own a store bought copy of) and tried install two expansions at a time. First one I tried was Generations, than Seasons. When I started the game I noticed instead of the Season opener, it was Generations. Usually the latest expansion will be playing when I start the game. Seasons should have been the opener. It wasn't. I get to the menu screen and nothing is there. No neighborhoods, no options, nothing. So I exited through task manager and uninstalled Generations, which left the base game and Seasons. I started the game up again. This time for the opener it was the base game not Seasons. I get to the menu screen and it is the same thing. Nothing is there. I will attach a screen shot of what I see.

When I installed my base game, since it was a legit copy, I went ahead and updated to the latest software update 1.42. When I added my downloaded expansion packs I followed the Must Read on this website on how to do it. I have done this before several times on my laptop and it always worked fine. I don't know why its not working now. I do not have any mods or packages, or downloads of any kind on it yet.

Here is the screen shot. Hopefully I have done it right and you can see it.


Thank you.

It sounds like you have two separate issues going on here.

1) The worlds not showing up - I'm not familiar with it so I can't help much.

2) Expansions not showing up - it sounds like you might have forgotten to copy the files in the Ultimate Fix's "# Crack" folder after installing everything.

I followed the steps again and it still didn't work. So I copied what I had on my laptop to my desktop and it works fine now. I just have one more question. Since I now have The base game and Seasons which is the last expansion, when I add my other expansions do I need to use the ultimate fix for them too?

Thanks so much for all your help!