If you feel you’re not tech savy, this solution is not for you. If you bought World adventure in a different region/country than the base game, you will need to change the region code in manually in your Registry.Ĭhanges in your Registry are changes, that may lead to problems with the game or even Windows.Īlways backup your registry before making any changes. Different Region for Base Game and World Adventure The last two digits of the version number tell you which one you have. Solutionįor both solutions below you will need to find out, what region code your base game has. If you manually patch your game and use the incremental patch, you must make sure that the patch you download matches the region code of your base game. Download and DVD Version can be mixed and matched without getting the message. Newer addons don’t have this issue since EA got rid of the region code. The base game and the world adventure expansion pack need to have the same region code or they don’t work together and you’ll get the error message above. This error occurs for two reasons Different regions for the base game and world adventures