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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@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/
@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
