Sims 2 Legacy crashing when loading a household

I first had the issue of the game not launching when I first purchased it. I was able to fix that issue with the solution of typing “-w” in the properties. While the 2/6 update fixed that issue and I can now launch the game without the “-w” in the properties I now have another issue that has made the game completely unplayable. Every time I try to load into a household after a few seconds of the loading screen I get a pop up that says: “The application has crashed. The application will now terminate.” I have tried repairing the game, I have tested multiple households in different neighborhoods, I’ve even tried running the game as administrator. The only other thing I can think to try is uninstalling then reinstalling, but I would like to avoid that.