Why won't my sims 3 downloads show up in my game?

Answer 1

I'll take my time to tell you my experience, but with it, a discovery (sort of)I used to download custom content from this site (the original site), I used to download it into the correct file and had gone through re-installing my game twice, and shutting down my computer several times. Whenever I used to download CC, It used to get downloaded and when I would go to the game, only the make-up and the eyes would show up, the rest used to be replaced by proxies which was very frustrating. One day, I had gotten the full CC to show up and I was literally celebrating that moment, then when I had gotten sleepy, I shut off the game, and with it, my computer.The next day, I went back onto the computer and went to Sims 3, the CC was not showing up again, it was replaced with proxies! I searched all day for a solution and yes, I found one. It was posted by 'CCLEO' (I mentioned the user name to thank this user).... The user posted several tips and one of them was how to enabled custom content.You have to go to the Game Launcher, and then to the 'Installed Content' tab. Then, you have to check a box which says 'Run with Custom Content'...Then a message appears, ignore the message, just click the tick button to continue...WAIT, the story doesn't end here...I was overjoyed to find out how to enable the custom content...So I went to my game but...huh!?.....The custom content still wasn't working?I went to the button which has three dots on it, I clicked 'Open Launcher'...the game was minimized and the launcher was opened, I went to see if my box was checked and it was, I went back to the game and the CC appeared out of the blooms....Till this day, I open the launcher while the game is playing, then I go back to the game without closing the launcher and my CC is just there without a drop of sweat...So, if your problem is similar to mine, just follow what I did and still do....