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Post by bungusmcscrungus on Mar 17, 2023 20:38:16 GMT -5
Probably not possible to stop it but I really do not want it to do this. I'm perfectly happy with my current game version as it is the most stable for me (1.90.375.1020) and I have no intention of updating it (don't care at all about infants or any new packs), but S4S now refuses to work despite having worked just fine before. If it's not possible to stop it, is it at least possible to downgrade it or something? I still have package files to fix but this hinders me. If that isn't possible either, I guess all I can do is just suck it up and deal with it  |
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Post by mauvemorn on Mar 18, 2023 5:24:29 GMT -5
Hi. S4S relies on the game files, so if you haven’t updated the game, s4s shouldn’t have stopped working because of it. It may have been something else. What exactly happens? Does it just not start?
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Post by bungusmcscrungus on Mar 19, 2023 9:25:31 GMT -5
When I open it, it seems like a normal startup but then the 'game patch' window opens up and seems like it's attempting to update the game (or so the wording implies to me) and I quickly X out of it to avoid any changes, but it also results in the entire program closing. Perhaps it could be the possibly now outdated version I have (v3.1.6.3 Wishes) and a newer one won't do that? I only started having the issue when EA tried forcing the switch from Origin (not doing that yet either, reasons) and messed up the game (saying it's not installed, all packs missing, etc.), but even after managing to fix all that, the problem with S4S persists without a clear way to stop it from doing that
Edit: Tried the newest open beta version, it does the same thing unfortunately
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Post by bungusmcscrungus on Mar 23, 2023 21:24:10 GMT -5
I still haven't been able to figure out a way around this, so I suppose I'm simply going to have to deal with not being able to use it for future projects for the time being. Both the community tested and open beta versions have the same problem of the game patch window popping up and not allowing anything else to be done and closing the entire program when stopped. I can't recall it ever happening before, but it was happening before the 'big update' last week, when EA messed with Origin around mid to late February for me, so I can only guess that that whole disaster did something to the game files that makes S4S act up, but I can't fathom a solution for that either. I can't double-check the game directory as it won't allow me to do anything else, so all I can do is just accept it for now
The game itself still works (as far as I've noticed), it's just S4S being uncooperative with it all of a sudden
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Post by shkatzchen on Mar 24, 2023 2:34:45 GMT -5
Someone with more experience may correct me, but if you reinstalled your game, I think S4S may just be trying to read what game files you do have, especially since you've also reinstalled S4S. I don't think it's trying to update the game (I don't think it has that capability) so much as it's just trying to work, and it needs to read the game files to work. It has to do that anew whenever there's an update, but it may have needed to do it here because of whatever you had to do to fix the issues you had in February.
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Post by Feyona on Mar 24, 2023 8:48:06 GMT -5
When I open it, it seems like a normal startup but then the 'game patch' window opens up and seems like it's attempting to update the game (or so the wording implies to me) and I quickly X out of it to avoid any changes, but it also results in the entire program closing. Perhaps it could be the possibly now outdated version I have (v3.1.6.3 Wishes) and a newer one won't do that? I only started having the issue when EA tried forcing the switch from Origin (not doing that yet either, reasons) and messed up the game (saying it's not installed, all packs missing, etc.), but even after managing to fix all that, the problem with S4S persists without a clear way to stop it from doing that Edit: Tried the newest open beta version, it does the same thing unfortunately Studio never updates the game. It is trying to read missing files. Newer Studio can read older patches as far as I know. |
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