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Re: Sims 3 won't open: Alder Lake (Intel 12th-gen) CPU

Hello,

Trying to play the Sims 3 and it will not start on my computer. The launcher opens, but pushing play does nothing. Here are my computer specs, I have tried to follow the instructions for manually adding my graphics card but as you can see my DeviceConfig file is empty so I'm stuck on step 1.

Any help is appreciated, thank you.

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF

Memory: 32GB DDR4-3600

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - 8GB GDDR6X

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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
2 years ago
@Malachai and @reenie_stp I've merged your posts with the master thread for this issue, which is that Sims 3 doesn't start correctly on most 12th- and 13th-gen Intel processors. The workaround is to limit the game to one CPU core as it's loading. Please see the accepted solution on page one for more information.