I was playing my game only a hour ago and everything was fine, until I downloaded a patch from the EA Download manager for Freetime then after appling this patch I tried loading the game up and I got a error message that read EC : 5531. I have no idea how to sort this but I'm betting it HAS to be something to do with the patch I just installed - how do I get rid of it as if I never did it in the first place? Thanks in advance for any help.

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You can't uninstall the patch - it alters the install files of FT. The only way to do that would be to reinstall FT. However, that's probably not necessary.

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