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annas_weirdo
Rising Newcomer
21 hours ago

unable to launch the sims 1

unable to launch the sims 1 and have been trying for the past week with no resolution. i get the message "The game was unable to find a suitable vulkan device on this machine. please update your graphics card and try again". my graphics card is just a  intel(R) HD graphics card. there are no updates for it and i cannot locate on my computer if it has a vulkan device or not (i dont think it does) i have tried every option to fix this suggested on here and ea help with no successful outcomes. I just want to relive my childhood :( and not waste money on something i cant play. My computer is a ASUS with

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz   3.30 GHz

system type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

running windows 11

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  • EA_Solaire's avatar
    EA_Solaire
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    12 hours ago

    Hey there,

    this issue is currently being tracked in the thread here, please be sure to add your information into this current thread to help us further track and review this.

    Thank you! 

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