Invalid Or Missing .par File Simcity 5
Mathew Letter
Anybody this this message after installing the game. I spent over 3hrs trying to get this game to d/l. After installation when I click on the Play Now button this error message comes up saying "Game won't launch. Invalid or missing .par file. Please reinstall your game." What is this.
I keep a backup of the Titanfall folder on a separate drive and I had copied the game to c:\program files (x86)\origin games\titanfall on my new computer. After copying the game I installed Origin, right-clicked Titanfall, and selected Download. The copied game files were recognized and the DLC patch downloaded in a few minutes. After all of that I tried to launch the game but it gave me the error mentioned by OP. ("...invalid or missing .PAR file.")
I have a yet-to-be-solved issue that seems to be rare because I've yet to find anyone else with this problem, though many have had similar. I'm sure you're all aware that for some, when you try to open Origin (even from its installation folder), Windows 10 claims that it does not exist. A temporary workaround was posted by a member who said if you simply change the file name, it will open. This works, though a nuisance, and you need only change the program back to its original name once Origin is open in order to update, download games, etc.
Well, as it turns out, even having worked around this issue, when I go to play Sims 4, the very same "does not exist" error occurs [Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\TS4.exe']. I tried changing the name of the launcher which produced a different error: "Invalid or missing .par file". Simple enough. Just change the name of TS4.par file, as well, to the same name you changed TS4 to (ignoring, of course, the .par part). Finally, it recognizes it's there only to produce the final error: "Origin is not installed." I had hoped that changing the name of Origin, as before, would solve this problem but it does not. So here I am stuck and cannot think of any nonsense workaround to get my $70 piece of broken pixels to work and I am sick of how long it is taking both Origin and Microsoft to fix it ("All of The Sims Games Work on Windows 10", my behind.)
If someone else has suffered from this problem and found a solution, please help. I am desperate to play my beloved Sims again. I have the Premium Edition (and own every EP/SP of previous generations) and was going to finally catch up on TS4's DLC but with how many issues I have had with this game, I'm starting to wonder if my loyalty should remain.
P.S. Do not suggest things like "Reinstall the game, clear your cache, try an admin account" or any of that basic troubleshooting nonsense that only really helps a squirrel who is smart enough to turn on a computer but not intelligent enough to know how to use it. I am not a six-year-old and I know how computers work. After spending over three consecutive hours with EA "Support" entertaining these useless solutions, I am at the end of my rope. Please help!
I installed the sims 4 on my new laptop and had the issue of not finding the sims folder. Came to find out, my laptop was set to install apps and games to onedrive. Even though the game works the files were not on my hard drive.
Do you still have this problem right now if do I can help you following these instructions: this PC/I went to program files not programs files x86/EA games/the sims4/game/bin/scroll down until you see tc4_x64.
I'm having an issue with running Mass Effect 2 from the Origin launcher. I can run ME1 and ME3 just fine. This is only affecting ME2 for some reason. Every time that I try to launch the game, it will run for like 3 seconds, then it closes back out to the launcher. I have read over several posts on the several different forums, and have done all the "solutions" that I have found. I have even contacted support twice about it and have done what they have instructed. Still nothing works. Here is a list of things that I have tried so far.
I think that is all of it. If anyone can give me a hand here, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm wanting to play the trilogy in order and I just finished ME1. But I don't want to start ME3 until I've done ME2.
After doing everything that was suggested over the past few days, I woke up this morning and, just out of curiosity, to ran the repair function on the game. After it was completed I tried to start it up. And, to my surprise, it actually started!!! I don't know what fixed it, if it was a combination of several things that did. All that really matters to me at the moment, is that it's fixed. So thank you for all those that gave me advice/ideas on the matter. Now to see if it will actually stay running long enough for me to do a run through.
I don't know if this matters or not, but I have tried running it from Origin, using the MassEffect2.exe and MassEffect2Launcher.exe. Now with the MassEffect2Launcher.exe, I get a pop-up that says: Invalid or missing .par file. Please reinstall your game. I received this error a couple of times before, and I reinstalled on both occasions. But that didn't solve the problem.
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