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Windows11_Pro
Rising Rookie
7 months ago
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The Sims 2 Legacy crashes and unresponsive on launch in Steam

Hi, my PC specs are Ryzen 9 5900X, 64GB RAM, Asus Dual RTX 4060 8GB. When I try to launch the game, it just sits on unresponsive and it crashes. My screen gets very large and I need to restart Window...
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    Windows11_Pro
    7 months ago

    I found this on Reddit: "open steam. select game properties. at startup options type -w."
    It works for me.

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l9shw8uh7amg
Seasoned Novice
6 months ago

-w is not working for me, and nothing else seems to be working. i bought the sims 2 yesterday (fully knowing it was bugged tbh) but i cant even make it past the main menu

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