Not been able to find anything about this on extensive searches, so hoping someone here can help. I have only recently bought Sims 3 and Pets - no other packs as yet (I'm a 2 and 4 player up until now!). I registered games today with EA and downloaded their free gift thing of the couple of pet accessories. Installed them from download (it was automatic), went to open my saved game (Appaloosa Plains) and it was gone from the launcher. It was in a 'current' game box/queue - but was grayed out and unplayable. I tried a few things I found - but nothing worked, so I deleted the download, backed up the sims 3 folder and started again from default. Appaloosa Plains was back. So I installed the 'Framework Setup' from here - with the Mods file in - and the same has happened again - no saved game this time but Appaloosa Plains missing... any thoughts?

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In fact - Pets now appears to be missing altogether - as in there are none of the items or icons for it either :/

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Are you on patch 1.69 by any chance?

If this was an Origin for Windows install or you had let Origin update your game, then you are on Patch 1.69. There are no choices given. You have to check the Expansions and Stuff tab of the Launcher to make sure the EPs you expect to have in play are actually listed and checkboxed on every startup. If the game starts up without the Pets EP loading, then there is no Appaloosa and no EP content.

^ Ya I'm not saying 1.69 is the devil or anything, but it's red and has horns and a pointy tail.

Argh! OK - thanks lads will try to keep on top of it - pain in the padded rear.

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