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Lauraronderos
Seasoned Newcomer
1 day ago

Please help me with the sims 3 launcher.

I’m having a problem with the game for the first time

When I try to open the game from the launcher, the classic The Sims 3 menu doesn’t appear. It’s the blue square menu where you can see downloads and installed content, or enable and disable expansions.

Instead, the game opens directly from the EA App straight to the application intro.

Does anyone know what I can do to make the classic menu appear so I can enable an expansion that I currently have disabled?

gameplay issue
technical issues

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    1 day ago

    Lauraronderos​  What you've described is what happens when players deliberately bypass the launcher, by renaming the game's executable (TS3.exe) to the launcher's executable (Sims3Launcher.exe).  When you press Play in the EA App, the App calls up the launcher, and pressing Play in the launcher calls TS3.exe.  But this can be worked around by renaming the executables so the App thinks it's calling the launcher when it's really opening the game.  Point is, if you've done some renaming, undo the change.

    Otherwise, or if renaming doesn't help, repair the game in the EA App (Sims 3 > Manage > Repair).  If you've previously taken steps to get your graphics card recognized, or changed the program files in some other way, the repair will undo that work, so you may want to save any edited files for later use.

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