Re: Sims 4 game will not open before 40 minutes
@HappyFeet128 As a test, please try playing in a clean user folder. Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop; if it copies instead of moving, or you get an error when trying to move it, stop here and let me know.
Otherwise, when you launch the game,a clean folder will spawn with no content. (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.) Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just see how long it takes to load. If it's more than ten minutes, you can kill the game in the Task Manager and move on.
If the loading time is back to normal, start moving your saves and other content from your old Sims 4 folder to the new one, testing along the way to see whether the long loading time returns. You may find that just one file is causing most of the problem. You don't have to wait for very long either: just make note of how long the game takes to load during each test, and if you get to more than double that time with the next batch of files, you'll know you've found a problem.
If the long loading time is present even in a clean folder, please let me know what antivirus you use, if any. Please also run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
