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Rising Novice

2 days ago

Getting this error when trying to launch sims 3

Getting an error that says: 'there was an error during setup, please see the log for more info'. Trying to launch the sims 3 and that comes up, I have tried reinstalling it but it doesn't work, not s...

crashing

technical issues

puzzlezaddict

Hero+

2 days ago

lidn0m1krbgf Please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the game, which is more thorough than the regular uninstall process. I can see from your screenshot that the launcher reports no game version at all, which is typical of an install broken in a way that it takes a clean uninstall to fix. Here's how:

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