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9 months ago

Game wont launch

Hi I have a Macbook Air M1, 2020 and I cannot open the sims 3. I have tried everything from clearing cache to having the EA app "repair" my game. I open the launcher and I hit the big blue play button and nothing occurs just reopening of the EA app. I had installed some new mods and cc so I uninstalled all of them and nothing. I don't get an error message either just nothing runs. Please help </3

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  • 2e225c16fca96368  Please please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop.  When you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you've moved but temporarily unread by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just start a new save and see how it runs, that is if you can get that far.

    If this doesn't help, try again, except this time, take your computer offline first.  You can sign into the EA App and put it in offline mode, then disable wifi before pressing Play.

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