Black screen and Crash when loading sims 3
First Time playing the sims 3 games in a long time. Didn't have any issues in the last opening but for whatever reason, it is giving me the black screen, no-load, crash treatment this morning. I open the game from the TS3E10 file I have on my desktop. I learned a long time ago that if you do this and remove the script for the CD requirement then you don't have to open through the launcher or put the disc in. I have had no issues with this in the past (and I know this is not a problem because I have already attempted opening of the game via the normal Launch/insert disc/ play game route as well, however the result is always the same: the screen goes black, I get a window pop up with Sims 3 island paradise at the top, and then the whole this crashes. While the game itself does not close the application (I have been closing it with the task manager each time it fails to load) It will not go through to the loading screen. This is immensely annoying and I have tried everything I can do on my end with the common fixes:
-Cleaning up Cache files (I have removed everything I can find in relation to this)
-Restarted my computer
-Checked for old graphics drivers (I am up to date)
-taken the Mods folder out of the sims 3 game files and placed it on my desktop and attempted to run without mods (still doesn't work
-Taken the Downloads folder out and did the same as with mods
-Attempted to open with a disc in my computer
-Attempted to open with TS3E 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 files and all of them have the same result
-checked to make sure in device config that my driver is found and matched in the game system
I would really appreciate any help because I am not very good with computers and with the sims being the complicated mess of files that it is requires knowledge of almost another language. Thank you again and let me know If there is any information about the problem I did not include. I am attaching a Dxdiag file at the bottom of this message as I see that is commonly requested and I will also attach a device config that is appearing in my sims file.
All Hail PuzzleAddict! Not gonna lie some of those steps made me a little (a lot) anxious about going through with it, but I did and It absolutely worked 🙂 I can't thank you enough. I was worried I would have to start from scratch and re-download everything. This trick absolutely did it and I was able to start my game both via my shortcut and via the launcher. Thank you again!!!!
