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vonshadowsong's avatar
10 years ago

"thesims 2 ep9 has stopped working"

for the past few days, i've played the game with zero issues.

for some reason, though, today is the exception~ i can't launch the game from origin or my desktop shortcut without getting the error above. any posts i found on the subject were several years old, so i'm not quite sure what to do anymore.

thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

-von

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  • "kremesch73;14605029" wrote:
    "lauravonawesome;14603945" wrote:
    i am on a laptop, win7.

    i finally got it started after 3 or 4 tries; i also noticed that i had 2 ea games folders for some reason, both with the sims 2 ultimate collection... one was empty and the other had my stuff in it, so i deleted the empty one and was able to start the game.

    if this same issue happens again, i will try running as admin instead (i'm the only one who uses this computer, so i'm pretty sure my profile is admin already, but not 100% certain.

    thanks again all :)

    -von


    Weird. This is the exact thing that happened to another player here recently. Luckily, removing the extra folder helped them. I hope it works for you too. I wonder why you guys wound up with two folders.


    not sure. but this extra folder must be the cause of the issue; removing it allows me to run the game, though it reappears after i log out (just like the cache files do). i've taken to just deleting the extra folder before trying to start the game.

    -von
  • > @Rflong7 said:
    > Hi :)
    >
    > I would delete the Logs folder in Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection (it will regenerate)
    > and delete the cache files - Accessory and Groups. Then try it...

    Hello, I had the same problem and this solution worked for me. Thank you for your help

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