I recently downloaded the sims 3 on a new laptop and have not been able even load into the world. Since this was a new game, I had no previous saves but every time I tried to start a new game and select the world it said : A serious error has occurred while loading <name of the world> It is strongly recommended that you restart the application. I followed the instructions on other threads with similar problems such as starting the game without expansion packs, turning OneDrive off, turning the antivirus, putting the Sims 3 folder on exception from being scanned by antivirus and creating a new user but nothing worked. The only thing that worked was the suggestion for changing the folder name from -Documents\Electronic Arts\the sims 3 to something else. After renaming the folder, I installed all my content again, i loaded up the game, a new folder automatically titled "the sims 3 was created, and I was able to play but i had to download and install all my cc again (all CC came from the official ea store) . I was able to select the world, got to CAS and quit the game and went back in to see if it worked after exiting and it did. On my second time launching i was able to play for a few hours and saved my game. However the next day when trying to play I encountered the same error except it changed the error referencing the world to referencing the save. I am running the sims on windows 11
Thank you!
I originally copied my downloads from my previous folder to the new one created when launching using the new user so perhaps that was it? When I tried installing all the store content downloaded it said it was unable to install as my game was not up to date so I started the game without it but I was still receiving the same “serious errors” message as before when starting a new save. I ended up deleting the Sims 3 folder all together, downloaded the store content manually from the sims 3 website, installed everything from the launcher and was able to play. The only thing I copied were my old saves as not to lose progress and there seems to be no issues. I’m on day 3 of playing under a new computer user, Microsoft antivirus is running but Onedrive isn’t installed on this profile
