Re: Sims 3 black screen on load- windows 11

@MushyBeans21  Did you specifically try setting fullscreen to 0 (zero) within options.ini?  It looks from your photo that the game is still trying to launch in fullscreen mode, so if you did edit options.ini, you may have found a second copy of the file, not the one the game is using.

Alternately, if you use GeForce Experience to optimize your game settings, or another app that does the same thing, it could be reverting Sims 3 to fullscreen on its own.

I'd also like to see a dxdiag on this computer.

https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

@MushyBeans21 hi there some computers espasaly old models takes a while to load up and dose this if after 16 minuts its still doing this hit controle alt delete go to task manager and end sims then go to c user doc electronic arts sims 3 delete all cachepackage files and relaunch now as for loading it takes up to 30 min depending on your sysem and mods on a ryzan mobo it loads in 5 mintes but with mods 8 to 15 minutes

@puzzlezaddict this dose work must add too to hide task bar then al set on a newer gpu gen like the amd rx 6650 series it dose not support 3d aceration thats why sims 3 gose black when full screened no way to fix it but to force full screen mode these are vulcan made cards with limited open gl support dose not support direct 11 or older only 12 or higher so thats whats going on with me plays flawless in windowed mode and seems to work in fuul screen as long as its not set in game so that means you will get all ur popups and task manager showing and you cant do anything bout it