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alyssastanton12
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18 hours ago

Absolutely CANNOT Get the Sims 3 to launch from the launcher no matter what I do

I have been having some very irritating issues regarding my sims 3 application refusing to start from the launcher when I press the play button. I am running it off of steam, I have a Intel Core i7-14700F Processor and a NVIDIA RTX 4060 Graphics Card.

When I press the play button in the launcher, the launcher just puts itself into my tray, and nothing else happens.

 I have done everything I can think of at this point including the alder lake fix, which did work and let me open the game a solid total of once. At this point, the game then glitched out in a way where it was loading indefinitely and needed to be restarted. After I restarted the game, the alder lake fix no longer worked.

I have fully uninstalled and reinstalled the game multiple times with the same result. I have deleted the folder within the steam and ea folders respectively, both multiple times, which, you guessed it: Didn't do a single thing.

Does anyone have any idea of what I could do at this point? I'm completely lost for what I could do to fix this besides maybe a full reset of my computer which I'm not even sure would work, either. It would be so nice to play this game I purchased!

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    16 hours ago

    alyssastanton12​  Have you installed NRaas ErrorTrap or another core mod?  What you've described happens sometimes when a core mod is present that's not build for this exact version of the game.  There are very few core mods out there, seven common ones last I heard, but if you're not sure, you could simply remove your entire Mods folder as a test.

    If that's not the issue, please provide a dxdiag.  Click Windows key-R, enter dxdiag in the run box, wait for the scan to finish, click "Save all information," and save the file to your desktop.  From there, you can attach it to a reply using the paper clip (Attachment) icon included with the other formatting buttons.

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