Re: Sims 4 not responding as soon as I open it
@buckkiii There are three different kinds of Sims 4-related errors in your dxdiag. One is pretty obvious: Nahimic and the game don't always get along well. This tends to change as new versions of each are released: the two become incompatible, then one is patched and sort of works well with the other again, and so on. The simplest response to this is to find Nahimic in the Task Manager and End Task before you want to play. If it helps, Nahimic is the issue; if it doesn't, the problem is something else.
The other errors are likely related to your graphics driver and certain Windows optimization functions. Both can lead to persistent issues, but both can also be a random occurrence that gets fixed the next time you restart your computer. Have you tried turning it off, then turning it on again? may be a cliche (and kind of rude to say at times), but it does come from somewhere. Especially if a computer isn't shut down properly, it can fail to properly load drivers or other support software when it boots. And then all the troubleshooting in the world won't help, until you do a real restart, as in, not Shut Down and turn back on, but Restart. And some fixes need a restart to take effect.
It's less likely that one restart wouldn't help but the next one would, but still not unheard of. But when a system goes from running fine to multiple errors, the cause is probably not all the separate processes breaking at the same time.
If you have more issues, feel free to come back with another dxdiag. Sometimes though, there's no easy way to figure out what went wrong. As long as it doesn't happen again any time soon, you don't really need to worry too much about it.
