Renfeh Have you tried playing in a clean user folder yet? If not, please do so now. Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop. If it copies instead of moving, or you get an error when trying to move it, stop here and let me know.
Otherwise, when you open the launcher, if it opens, 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 that doesn't or didn't help, please attach that dxdiag to a reply here so I can take a look. Not all issues a dxdiag can list show up as flags in the file, in fact that's relatively uncommon among the types of problems that prevent Sims games from working.
And no, the Alder Lake patch won't do anything for you. It only ever helped higher-end 12th-gen and newer Intel processors; older and lower-end ones and AMD CPUs were entirely unaffected. Besides, the EA App version of Sims 3 was patched to fix the issue in January.
WHY DID THAT WORK???? I mean, I'm happy about it and all, but HUH??? IT WAS A CLEAN INSTALL! I had already backed up and deleted everything! So, here is my question now, what do I do with all of my saves and custom stuff? Is there a way to test it without having to restart every time a new item is added? Let's just say, I have a bit of custom stuff. As I said in the post, I've been playing it since 2009, and I LOVE a few creators... 😄
Well, I'm rude...
THANK YOU!!!!
