The Sims 3 game of course has been like a game of Russian Roulette today. The game is having Authorization code issues, there are even glitches with in the game, the site is not loading some if not most of the pages. A lot of people cannot download their free content from TheSims3.com with their codes they got with the The Sims 3 Collectors Edition. Then there are those who aren’t having problems at all. People are becoming a bit skeptical, hell I am too and that’s because I haven’t installed mine yet because my computer parts do not come until tomorrow which is in 25 minutes.
If you’re getting a ‘Disc Authorization Error’, click here.
Some people are having problems because they decided to buy the game without looking at the system requirements first; they’re getting blocky people, letters, environments etc etc. Other people are having problems installing the game because there is this Authorization error going around… its either ‘disc authentication failure’ or its ‘make sure the disc is in the drive’ then there are people getting a authentic error basically saying the copy they are using isn’t authentic. The glitches well…
- The cheapest shower’s arrow ‘faces’ the wrong direction, It’s supposed to point where you enter from but is on the wrong side.
This makes it annoying while building a small house. I didn’t pay a maid $125, so he went to steal a chair.
BUT now the chair is “attached” with the desk… and on the desk was a laptop…
I owed him $125 and he took over $5500 worth…
Maybe that’s a glitch, maybe it isn’t. As far as downloading anything from the site, well it could work or not. Some people get to downloading their items and it lags, freezes or just stops. Speaking of which, people games are crashing a lot as well, the game will crash while creating a Sim in the Create-a-Sim area. Hopefully there will be a patch for this game really soon. I know there are a lot of mad and angry Sim fans out there. Also there are people who are having trouble viewing their Sims in the community lots. Maybe its their computer, maybe its the game but being that this is EA we’re talking about who knows? Even some people received their Sims 3 Collectors Edition and didn’t get their Carabiner. It comes with the The Sims 3 Collectors Edition by the way, I should know. Some now are missing roofs to their houses, the Sims are even bald.
In other news, ModTheSims.com has started on making mods for the The Sims 3 games. Feel free to click the link and see for yourself. From my understanding, these downloads from that site are free so you won’t need any Sim Points.
If you are having problems you can go here and submit your problems in the forum. I haven’t been able to see the forums since this morning and that was around 5 A.M.. You must be a registered user meaning, your game has to be registered to post topics or replies. If you would like to see if your computer can run The Sims 3 game you can go to Can You Run It?. If you don’t know it by that name but by another, its also called EA System Requirements Lab.
I just tried the forums again and now I can finally get into the forums after I’ve been waiting all day. Then again, I was able to get into them before the http 404 error earlier but the forums was just showing raw CSS when I selected ‘reply’.
Anyway, here are the minimum specifications to run The Sims 3 game.
FOR WINDOWS XP
* 2.0 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1 GB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* The latest version of DirectX 9.0c
* Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved gamesFOR WINDOWS VISTA
* 2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
* 1.5 GB RAM
* A 128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
* Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved gamesFor computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:
* Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
* 2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
* 0.5 GB additional RAMFOR MAC OS X
* Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard or higher
* Intel Core Duo Processor
* 2 GB RAM
* ATI X1600 or Nvidia 7300 GT with 128 MB of Video RAM, or Intel Integrated GMA X3100.
* At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space, with at least 1 GB additional space for custom content and saved games
* This game will not run on PowerPC (G3/G4/G5) based Mac systems, or the GMA 950 class of integrated video cards.Windows Supported Video Cards
—————————–NVIDIA GeForce series
FX 5900, FX 5950
6200, 6500, 6600, 6800
7200, 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950
8400, 8500, 8600, 8800
9300, 9400, 9500, 9600, 9800
G100, GT 120, GT 130, GTS 150
GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 280, GTX 285, GTX 295ATI Radeon(TM) series
9500, 9600, 9800
X300, X600, X700, X800, X850
X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950
2400, 2600, 2900
3450, 3650, 3850, 3870
4850, 4870Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
GMA 3-Series, GMA 4-SeriesLaptop versions of these chipsets may work, but may run comparatively slower. Standalone cards that are installed in vanilla PCI slots (not PCIe or PCIx or AGP), such as some GeForce FX variants, will perform poorly.
Integrated chipsets such as the ATI Xpress and the NVIDIA TurboCache variants may default to settings that are higher than what would be optimal for them. Graphics settings can be lowered to improve performance.
The NVIDIA GeForce FX series is unsupported under Vista.
MAC OS X Supported Video Cards
——————————NVIDIA GeForce series
7300, 7600
8600, 8800
9400M, 9600M GT
GT 120, GT 130ATI Radeon(TM) series
X1600, X1900
2400, 2600
3870,
4850, 4870Intel(R) Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA)
GMA 3-Series
As far as Patches go, people on TheSims3.com are making online petitions to recieve them faster because it hasn’t been 24 hours and the game is really messed up for a lot of folks.
Also people who don’t read, if you’re trying to install a DVD-ROM game with a PC-ROM then you deserve not to play the game, as well as those who decided to get the game knowing they have a Celeron Processor Dell Dimension 3000.
I will update if anything new happens until then, those who are glitch free HAPPY SIMMING!
Note:
Those who feel they aren’t getting the answers they need, feel free to contact Customer Support here.
Some Suggestions:
I don’t know if this would work but I heard if you’re getting an error about the game being fake, try installing it offline. Disconnect from your internet then install it. If there is some reason to why you can’t install while you’re offline then EA is more fail than I thought.
Try Deleting programs you aren’t using if you’re getting an Authorization error. If you have EA games on your computer that you did not buy and you have cracks, patches, hacks for them, that can mess with an legit game. I don’t know how true that is but someone told me after they deleted their games they illegally got, the game started working. That may not be the case for everyone though cause everyone probably don’t have pirated games on their PC or anything else stolen, cracked or patched. Or then it could just be the disc that its on.
My Computer Stats:
Time of this report: 6/3/2009, 01:33:57
Machine name: ASILEE
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: MSI
System Model: MS-7374
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm) 9500 Quad-Core Processor, MMX, 3DNow (4 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3328MB RAM
Page File: 635MB used, 4575MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode
To check out your stats in Windows XP:
Start > Run > ‘DXDiag’ without the ” and it will pop up after selecting ‘yes’. I don’t know if its the same for Windows Shista…I mean Windows Vista but it should be. Also, it has come to my attention that if you use Windows XP 64bit that you are likely to come across some issues being that there are a lot of things that cannot be ran on 64bit or it at least give people problems. So take that into consideration if you’re using Windows XP 64bit.
Please READ BELOW
If you need advice, try telling me the specifics about your computer. That’s why I suggested that people do the DXDiag. When you want to save it, just select ‘Save all information’ and it will save in Notepad format. The only thing you will need is the first part that says ‘System Information. Copy and Paste that with your comment and that will help me better with trying to assist you.
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Click here for a list of glitches, bugs and errors for The Sims 3 primary game.
Click here to see the list of Ambitions expansion pack glitches, bugs, and errors.
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Every time i try to play my sims 3 game there is always a problem with it. I just installed The sims 3 design and high tech stuff and not every time i try to play the game a box pops up saying unknown error occurred. i can update it or anything please help!!! I love this game and um getting fed up with the problems
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I just recently updated my game version to 1.14.11.. and I’ve had a couple of problems since then.
The two families that I had played the most, and were therefore the most developed, are missing. They’ve just upped and left, apparently, because I’ve searched every single house in my town and they’re no where to be found.. but, when I play one of their friends, I’m able to call them up and invite them over. So apparently, my sims still exist, they’re just MIA. Anyone know how I could go about retrieving them, or are they lost forever in the black whole that is an EA update?
The other major problem I’ve had isn’t really that devastating.. just strange. My sims have spawned themselves.. as in, I began playing a family I had abandoned for my MIA sims, only to find a strange sim that they had never met locked in their house, sleeping in their bed. What made this sim so strange (besides the fact that I had no idea who she was/that she existed) was the fact that she looked exactly like the female sim I was playing. There were two of them. Talk about an inferiority complex.
well, first off I have a mac. I got sims 3 for christmas… and I found the girls and guys hairstyles/clothes kinda boring. So my friend let me use her account on sims 3 (cause when I try to make one it says there’s something wrong and I tried at and I downloaded some of the sims that I found.
When I clicked on the sim I downloaded the clothes where there but not the hairs. >.< (btw my game is updated so that's not the problem….)
I have purchased 2 of the sims 3 games and neither are working. I downloaded one, and it worked for a while but froze up every once in a while, then today i bought a new one thinking it was just the disk, and it gets to “create a sim” and freezes in the middle of me making a family… I have Windows Vista… Please help!
I think I may have a graphics problem with my Sims 3 game. Well, a few things have been happening since I installed it; the screen will go black, it has froze on several occasions, and now I am not able to move the screen. Like, you know when you move the cursor to the side of the screen so that it moves the screen? Well, that no longer works for me. When I move the cursor to the sides of the screen it does nothing, so I can’t see beyond where my Sim is. It is very frustrating and I’ve tried lowering the graphics but nothing seems to be working. Anyone know anything I could try? I really can’t stand this problem.
Oh, and my computer is a Windows Vista: Intel (K) Core(TM2 Duo CPU E7300 @ 2.66GHz 2.67 GHz 4 GB (RAM)
My screen goes black i can still hear everything but nothing happens…If i want to play i have to restart my computer and do it all over again…
Okay so I’ve had the basic Sims 3 for awhile and recently purchased the Sims 3 Ambitions it’s been working fine til today when all the sudden theres this weird glitch where my stairs are all distorted :/ I closed it without saving and it went to another family to see if that would change anything but it seems even worse their whole house is twisted and stretched across the screen would reinstalling it do any good? Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Myah
Try reinstalling it, and see what happens.
I did a little while ago and nothing has changed
Did you try reinstalling Ambitions or the primary game? Have you tried reinstalling just the primary game? You can always try a system restore…
I only reinstalled Ambitions. Hmm honestly i dont know what a system restore is so well besides the obvious name telling me it restores the system…i wouldnt have an idea of how to do it.
I am having the same problem with my game. All the stairs in the game are distorted and that makes it very hard to play the game. I really wanna play this game so any help at all is very appreciated. FYI I reinstalled EVERYTHING including the source game.
Thanks
yeah, i havent played my sims for a good while now. i have never had a problem with my game, but i went on the other night and the stairs are all over the place…. did use manage to fix it? im thinking its a problem with one of their updates?
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Hey CAN YOU HELP? Iam pissed at my game i have all grafics on low and when too much is happening like moving around or going to many places with out my computer claming down it just quites the game i am getting so mad i what to RIP!!!! my computer to shreds.
What kind of computer is it? I can tell you now it isn’t your Graphics Card its your Processor.
When I became a member on the sims 3 website, It gave me 1000 free points but it wouldnt let me redeem them
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