A new
retail disc installation should always be Superpatched. Is this the kind of installation we are talking about? What can happen if we rely on the Launcher to patch to 1.67 is that it often reports the job is complete but it really isn't. EA is playing games (pun intended) with the Superpatcher currently, but it's still available from them
here or, strangely enough, on CNET.
For those following along, the Superpatcher should
never be run on an Origin/EA App or a Steam install. It is only for retail disc installs (and the 32-bit Mac version of the game).
Another important thing to check though is this -- in your TS3 user game folder in Documents where you are adding these mods, there will be a file called DeviceConfig.log. It may show up as just DeviceConfig if you have your operating system set to hide file extensions, but it's the same file. Do a right-click and then Properties on this file. Does the modification date/time exactly match the last time you attempted to start up your game? If you aren't sure, close all the windows from your game folder and start the game. The modification date/time on this file should update instantly. If it's stale, then you have another TS3 game folder on your system somewhere that is being read from and this one with the NRaas mods in it is being ignored at startup. On new Win 10/11 installs, this can easily happen if OneDrive is activated because the game will confuse OD's Documents folder with the "real one."