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blu1103
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30 days ago

Added stuff from sims resources sharing thing and now it won’t launch

EDIT UPDATE: I figured it out I just went through and deleted everything in the actual sims 3 files that I downloaded the day that it wouldn’t start and it fixed it

so I was playing sim and then I finally figured out how to download other people sims and other things like that from the resources page the trading thing I loaded a couple into my game and I loaded it up it worked so then I was like a ok cool and downloaded a bunch of other sims and accessories ect so I finish with that and then I go to load into the sims 3 and it won’t launch properly like it will act like it’s going to load and gives me a black screen and I waited like a half hour to see if it would load but didn’t so my thought process was maybe I just overloaded the game with installed content from the gallery/exchange thing and I didn’t want to go through and delete every single thing by hand so I deleted the sims 3 thinking it would remove the stuff from my game i redownloaded it I tried to launch it again it didn’t work and all of the stuff I had picked out said it was still downloaded to my game so I tried to delete it from the launch area and I got a little black screen that shows when stuff is deleted but it kept saying sorry this app isn’t responding so I restart my computer thinking it’s just being slow but it still wouldn’t delete stuff when I reloaded into the launch screen just says unresponsive ansi still can’t get the actual game to load and still get a black screen that never loads 

if you took the time to read this I appreciate it ansi hope someone can help

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  • blu1103​  I'm glad you got it fixed.  In the future, you may want to test any new content in a clean user folder before adding it to your main one.  If you remove or rename the Sims 3 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts, then open the launcher to create a new one, you can add content to the new folder and see what happens without affecting the old folder at all.

    When you're done experimenting, you can delete the new Sims 3 folder and restore the old one, then add any content that is in fact fine to your main folder.

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