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Has its moments.

Saturday:

Well, I thought to meself, I've had a difficult day, what with the DH breaking our Internet, son being an absolute brat, and more.

I'll go and try and play SimCity for a little tonight. So. Put Origin on.

• It takes half an hour to do some kind of update.
• Then completely refuses to work (play button greyed out).
• Eventually I get a message about it, to go to the support page - click on the link.
• Nothing happens.
• TEN minutes later, a page opens on EA Support.
• That tells me to click yet more links to find out what to do. This page, of course, is in English. (I am in England and game is set to English.)
• Click the links and pages in Polish come up. Those Polish pages refuse to translate in Google Translate, as they are malformed. What a surprise.
• Eventually I copy and paste stuff from the Polish into Google Translate and it seems to be saying, after installing the update, don't just restart the GAME, as it said in the original patch instructions, but RESTART the COMPUTER. OK, that makes some kind of sense.
• So I restart the computer and the same error message comes up as before. So I searched more found some more tips (from EA) on how to fix this particular error - it told me to copy some files from within the patch folder into the exe folder of SC. Did that, and now the whole install is foobarred.

Update: Sunday.

Uninstalled completely and reinstalled. Searched more on the forums and finally discovered this gem:

• Open up Origin
• Go to My Games
• Right click SimCity
• Click Game Properties
• Check Disable Origin in game

It works. Posting it here in case anyone else has that problem. Sigh.
One more flaming bag of poo delivered to EA's door.

Since that awful day, I discovered Cities:Skylines. This is much more manageable, and has some of the look and feel of the old Rush Hour/SimCity 4.

Sita December 30, 2022

Sita January 25, 2015