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I fell asleep and I restarted my pc after I woke up. The launcher started right up, I hopped online to post to you and when I clicked back over the X was there.

I have again deleted the .dbc file from DCcache and the X is again gone.
The only 3rd party CC I installed via the launcher is hair colors from Anubis, a pair of earrings and several hairs from Newsea. The hair colors I've had forever so it has to be either the earrings or one of the hairs.

was waiting for you leave out all of those for now replace one at a time to see  starting with the hair

So far I've gotten the hair colors and the earrings back in - no problems.
I just started the hairs.

good luck

Ok, I think I may be more confused then ever. :S
I reinstalled the 3rd party CC in my launcher one by one. Not a single one made the red X come back.
I started my game - it started smoothly and seems good. I restarted my pc and my launcher several times. Still no red X.

I have no idea what to think. I'm sure it has something to do with the .dbc file but I'm not sure what.
I have to go to bed - if there is still no X when I get up, I might just breathe a sigh of relief and call it cured.

Thank you again for your time, patience and help.
I'll keep you posted.

your welcome 🙂

The red X is back.
:'( :'( :'(

I don't have time to mess with it again tonight. I'll start again tomorrow. >☹️

I'm so confused - the X was there the last time I turned on my pc and now I turn on my pc and it's gone. I waited a 30 minutes and again turned on my launcher and it's back. WTH is that about?

might be time to see if the game will load up by bypassing the launcher and fot that i have to find crin's help page on that

http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/03/tutorial-bypass-the-launcher.html

When the red X is not there, my game starts perfectly and plays perfectly.
Only when the red X is there, my game doesn't want to start.

Can store bought items go bad or get corrupted?

so the only thing for now you can do is close your launcher and restart it untill no red x shows and play

i'm going to search around this week as i won't be on my pc to play i have a little netbook that i can surf the internet with if i find anything at all i'll pm you

The only time I've found a 'red X' specific post was the one you referred me to on MTS and that gave the Op several ideas on where to go for answers but nothing was ever mentioned on if a solution was ever found so I wrote to the Op. Hopefully they were able to fix it and will return my message.

hoping you hear something soon 🙂