Sims 2 not able to launch

I did refund in the end.

They only give people 24 hours to get a full refund (fine print)... thankfully I applied the same night I purchased it.

if you have already played it once and now it wont lauch its a group cash file issue

 C:\Users\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 Legacy

find your group cash and change it to open as paint and  click on advace and make it a read only!

yeah I know exactly why you shouldn´t wait around for theme to potieentally fix it, if they do you can allways rebuy if they don´t you are royally ........

That’s what I ended up doing and it worked for me! I’ll just play it in windowed mode for now then until they fix it.

Thanks. This helped. 

What computer are you guys running on? I bought the game on the 14th and hasn't given me any issues since now. I purchased the birthday bundle. It was taking never to launch and then came here. I tried loading in Sims 1 but Sims 2 loaded in instead.... Still want to prevent in the future. I figured it was because my computer updated last night to Win 11. I have a Acer Nitro 5 

This worked for me too. Absolutely wild. I never knew this existed until today 

What solution works, please?

What solution works, please?

I was able to successfully add the "-w" as instructed here in this thread (you need to do it in the EA app, not in your direct program files) However, I do want to say that it takes several (several!) minutes for the game to actually load. Whereas other Sims' games load instantly, Sims 2 is taking quite a bit of time for me. I also want to add that it wasn't like this on the first day of purchase. This is a recent issue.