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11 years ago
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Origin and the Sims won't launch

I just bought The Sims 3 last night and was playing it like crazy. For almost three hours I was making my Flynn family, but this morning I almost cried. When i tried to launch Origin, nothing happened, it wouldn't come up at all. I thought, "that's weird" and reinstalled it. That worked, so then i tried openeing Sims; nothing happened. I'm scared, I just wasted my money, didn't I?:catsad:

  • Could you try the following:

    1. Close the game and launcher
    2. Go to the following folder documents\electronicarts\thesims3\ and find a file called options(.ini)
    3. Open the file with a text edior of your choice
    4. Find the following line: fullscreen = 1
    5. Change it to fullscreen = 0
    6. Start the game

    The game should now start in windowed mode. See if that works.

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