Running TS3 just launches Origin?!
Hello there Just thought I'd fire up The Sims 3 after a few years not playing. Still using the same PC, the only change is an upgrade to Windows 10. Installed Origin, downloaded The Sims 3, installe...
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@Egerno If you are going to run games that are expandable like Sims3 I would recommend a system device larger then 240Gb. As you should have noticed after a drive is partitioned and formatted it is less then then rated size and you lose space when you need every byte you can get. When you install Windows a page file is created based on the size of the system device. This is for your virtual memory which now is not enough for this game. you probably need to increase the size of the page file which will decrease the nfree n space on your system device. you need a data drive but installing programs to the data device you will not have the benefit of the ssd for the game program. the other issue is the game requires a video system with 128mb of DEDICATED video memory. Your computer only has 64mb dedicated video memory. With limited free space on the system device this will cause issues for this game. If you are a casual Windows user that does not understand Windows memory management I recommend getting a larger system device and this MAY help but the dedicated video memory could still be an issue.
Thanks for the reply 🙂 I have 89GB unused space on my SSD so that’s not the problem, and TS3 is set to use the Nvidia GPU, 1GB dedicated RAM plus 2 gig shared; details a little further down in the data-dump from dxdiag. I’m only trying to install the main game, no expansions.
I’m not a casual Windows user, by the way, quite the opposite in fact 🙂 The reason for my post here was to enquire if any others have experienced this and how they might have solved it; the game worked perfectly on the same pc running Windows 7, so I can only assume it’s Windows 10 causing the problem.
Un- and reinstalling the graphics drivers didn’t do the trick either...
No Sims 3 for me, it seems, but I’ll survive 😀 Thanks for the suggestions guys.
What is your Origin version number?
Your Pagefile is only 4 GB big, I would recommend to set it to at least 8GB and test.
(The PCH error points to a possible problem here.)
Also make sure that .Net 3.5 is properly installed and preform a clean install of the VC++ 2010 runtime.
Furthermore, if the above don't helps, your Notebook uses NVIDIA's Optimus technology.
This technology requires that both GPUs in your system work together.
Now you have a relatively new NVIDIA driver but the Intel driver is from 2012, and it seems that not even Intel provided Windows 10 driver for this APU.
Here you could set a dual boot configuration with windows 7. A 30GB partition should be more then enough for Win 7 and the game.
Use only the last GPU drivers MSI provided on their website if you go this way.
Driver conflict sounds like a reasonable explanation. My Intel GPU is a crappy old HD which isn’t supported under Windows 10, as you also confirmed.
I have no no idea which version of Origin, it’s deleted now as is TS3. Thanks for the input 🙂
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