It is a really good idea to organise your Packages folder before you start. Then, delete the zipped files, and move the unzipped/extracted files into the packages folder.Ĥ.

What I do is I find what I want to download, save it in Documents - Electronic Arts - The Sims 3 - Mods, then I extract it into this same folder. Here is how you install sims 3 packs, and here is how you install downloaded sims.ģ. Sims 3 packs and individual sims do not need to be installed in the same way. Make sure that what you are downloading is a. It's an easy thing to confuse sometimes but trust me, once you've been there (like me), you will never ever forget to check what game the CC is for :PĢ. If it is for sims 2 and you place it in your sims 3 game, it will slow it down and might cause it to crash. Make sure that what you want to download is for SIMS 3. Now, here will explain how to add CC to your game, but there's a lot of crap in there that you don't need to know so I'll just explain here briefly the rules of downloading CC.ġ. You should now have been in your game, and the intro should have been gone and the sparkles when you build walls should not have appeared. Do not continue if you haven't, because it won't work. Carefully reread the instructions and look at the pictures to make sure you have done it right. If these things are still here you have done something wrong. Once you start your game there should be no intro before it loads, and when you're in game, there should be no sparkles when you are building walls. Now you need to start your game to make sure your folders are set up right. This will tell you how to set up the folders you will need for downloading custom content (CC). You should now know how to unzip a file and have a program that does this (like 7zip, winzip.)

So first, if you don't know what ' extracting files' or ' unzipping' is, go here. I'm going to be lazy and link you to pages that will tell you what to do. This is for littlemotorkitty, and anyone else with a passion for The Sims :D

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