Sims 3 black screen on load- windows 11
I downloaded the sims 3 off of Steam and Origin, but I've been running into the same issue that I have been trying to trouble shoot for the past 5 days. All the "solutions" I've found don't work. To ...
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@Theminebos Just because it's easy and helps in this situation some of the time, try forcing the game to launch in windowed mode. Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3, open options.ini, search for fullscreen , and set it to = 0 .
If that doesn't help, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
And if you've added any mods or custom content, please test without it. The game often crashes due to an incompatible mod at exactly this point.
Thank you for your response I had someone at my school take a look at it. I didn't understand everything that they did, but that sounds somewhat familiar.
@Theminebos Do you still need help? If so, please upload a dxdiag here so I can take a look.
I’m wondering why it does this? It works fine when I make it windowed mode, but I like fullscreen so after i start the game i change it to full. sometimes i forget to change it back though and next time i open the game i have to force restart my computer as it doesn’t let me do anything when black screen is on.
is there a way to fix it or is this just my life?
What did they do that worked for you?? I tried the solution here and launching without cc (I still left the cc in the folder just checked the box off) idk what cc is broken just though. I don’t want to uninstall and reinstall cause I have a save I really like on here but it’s getting so frustrating to not know how to fix this.
@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/
Thanks so much! I haven't been able to play sims 3 on my pc in months. Your solution helped me.
I am having the same problem, but running the game in Windowed Mode only band-aids the problem. I cannot launch the game in Fullscreen again. I have three bundled Mod packages and some CC installed through the launcher, so I don't see why this doesn't want to work...
@SimFan335 What resolution is your monitor, and what in-game resolution are you trying to use in fullscreen mode? Are you using a custom DPI scaling? If you're not sure, check under Windows Settings > System > Display.
I am using the recommended resolution, for both my laptop and the game. Letting the application control the DPI settings does not help.
I think I am doomed to just switch back and forth from windowed to fullscreen...
