Re: Command line arguments not working with EA Play version

@cherriesandwine1  Try clearing Origin's cache:

https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/

and repairing the game: open your game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, and select Repair.

If that doesn't help, try running Origin as an admin: right-click on the Origin shortcut and select "Run as administrator."  Make sure to launch Sims 4 from within your Origin game library, not from a desktop shortcut.

If that doesn't help, please let me know what antivirus program you use.

@cherriesandwine1  You could try a clean uninstall and reinstall of Origin, which shouldn't take nearly as much time as reinstalling the game.

• Quit Origin, then right-click on the Task Bar and open the Task Manager.  Scroll through looking for Origin entries.  If you find any, click on them and End Task.
• Clear Origin's cache.
• Download Revo Uninstaller (the free version is fine) from here.
• Launch Revo, select Origin from the list, and click Uninstall.
• When it finishes uninstalling, select "Moderate" under "scanning modes," and click Scan.
• If Revo finds any remaining registry entries, select all, delete, and click Next.
• Revo will display "Remaining Data and Folders."  Select all of them except for the "Origin Games" folder, if it appears.  (This is where Sims 4 and other Origin games are installed by default.)  Delete the rest.
• Close Revo, and restart your computer.

Next, download the full Origin installer and run it.  Here's the direct download link:

http://download.dm.origin.com/origin/live/OriginSetup.exe

Be sure to run both the installer and Origin itself as an admin: right-click on each and select "Run as Administrator."

@cherriesandwine1  Could you try other command line arguments to see whether any of them work?  The -w and -f (with the hyphen in front) arguments force Origin to launch the game in windowed and fullscreen modes, respectively.  So load the game to the Main Menu, put it in fullscreen mode, quit, apply the -w argument, and see whether the game launches in windowed mode; please do the opposite for -f as well.

I've merged your thread with another on the same issue so we can keep the reports of this issue in the same place.

@cherriesandwine1  I'm not sure why command line arguments wouldn't work, but I'll ask if anyone else has other ideas.  Hopefully someone will have a suggestion for you.

If you don't want to wait, you could unistall the game and reinstall with only the packs you want.  Make sure Origin is not set to automatically update your game: hover over your username, select Application Settings, and under Application (the first header), scroll down to Client update and disable auto game updates.  When uninstalling, it's a good idea to make a backup copy of the Sims 4 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts—although this folder shouldn't get deleted during the uninstall process, it does occasionally happen.  And having a backup is always a good idea.

Origin will still likely try to install your missing packs the first time you load the game to the Main Menu.  So when the menu loads, alt-tab back to Origin and cancel the downloads: hover over the Download Manager in the lower left corner and click the X next to each pack.

@cherriesandwine1 You are using Origin to start the game and not start with EA desktop after you entered them with Origin ?

Could you maybe post a screenshot of where you entered it on Origin ?

@crinrict as far as I'm aware I don't have EA Desktop unless that's automatically included in Origin? I've attached a screenshot of it.

Hello @cherriesandwine1 

I'm seeing this issue also, but only when using an account that has a subscription to EA Play. 

Do you happen to have any other versions of Sims 4 active in your Origin Library?  If so, can you try adding arguments to that instead and launching the game from there?

Another workaround you can try is to create a shortcut to \Origin Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\TS4_x64.exe (unless you have a shortcut already), open the Properties of that shortcut, go to the Shortcut tab, and add the arguments to the end of the Target field.

In the meantime, I'll tell the team about this and have it looked into.

@SimQARobo Hi, I do have a subscription to EA play, yes. I don't have any other versions. I have just tried the workaround that you suggested and that didn't work either unfortunately.

@cherriesandwine1 

I heard Origin team is working on a fix for this that should be going out in a future Origin update.