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3 years ago
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Re: Game launcher opens but returns to ea app when loading game

Hello there @puzzlezaddict ! First, thanks for helping everyone out for this long. If you could give me a hand, I would be extremely thankful too. Basically, I tried both Lady`s patch (which didn`...
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    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @nicknick1009  Okay, please repair the game anyway, then try playing in a new admin Windows account.  Make it local, as in, don't link it with your Microsoft account.  If you have an Alder Lake or Raptor Lake CPU, you'll of course need to keep applying one of the workarounds for that; please use the Task Manager method, just to keep things simple.

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3 years ago

@nicknick1009  The service initialization error usually has to do with missing or corrupt registry entries.  Did you happen to disable or uninstall one or more packs after installing the game?  If so, please reenable those packs and let me know whether it helps.  You don't necessarily need to play with all the DLC all the time, but removing some of it is more involved than simply checking the box in Steam.

If that doesn't help, or you don't own any DLC, please uninstall Sims 3 with Revo Uninstaller (the free version is fine) and reinstall it.  Don't move the game to a new location after installing it, and if you use a cleaner app or another program that edits your computer's registry, disable it before reinstalling the game.

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    nicknick1009
    3 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict I basically just installed the game and went to play it. Did not disable or (un)install anything. It unfortunately did not help to even uninstall and reinstall the whole game through Steam. I am going to be doing it with Revo now, but I use no cleaner app or similar programs. My AV is Windows Defender.

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    nicknick1009
    3 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict Just uninstalled with Revo and did a clean installation back. Still getting the same error. Doing the CPU affinity process to have the game open, but just tried Lady's method again and have the same error appearing. 

    Any clue what I can do?

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      puzzlezaddict
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      3 years ago

      @nicknick1009  If the CPU affinity method is getting the game to open correctly but the Lazy Duchess patch is not, that suggests that the patch either isn't being applied correctly or that something on your system is objecting to it running.  If you used a third-party antivirus, that would be one suspect, but perhaps even having Steam open while running the patch could be an issue.

      If the CPU affinity approach isn't working anymore, repair the game in Steam: open your game library, right-click the Sims 3 tile, and select Properties > Local files > Verify integrity of the game files.  This should undo any effects of the patch.  Then try the CPU affinity method again and let me know whether it works.

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        nicknick1009
        3 years ago

        @puzzlezaddict I think I expressed myself badly. 

        I meant that I was using the CPU affinity mainly to try to get everything up and running, and switched it up to Lady's method to see if there was going to be any difference.

        However, neither of them are letting me run the game properly, I keep getting the error shown on the earlier screenshots. I couldn't get the game to work through any form yet.

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