Sims 3 black screen when press play
For the past couple of days I've been experiencing problems with a black loading screen (it goes black and has a loading mouse) when I click play on Sims 3. It also goes grey like I'm downloading som...
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So I've tried to delete as much as I can. Also i am trying to move my cc to an external hardrive so i can start up a clean game - do you think this would work? If not should I look into getting extra storage. If all this doesn't work should I reinstall it not in my onedrive? Hope you have a nice rest and thank you so much for the help!!
@s1mmer342 I had a decent rest, thanks, just not long enough. (That's my own fault for staying up late.) I think the best thing to do would be to move your entire game folder somewhere else, like an external drive, and see if you can load TS3 with no folder present at all. That's the usual procedure—get the game running with a clean folder, then start adding content back. Normally I would recommend not having your game folder in OneDrive at all, but given your lack of free space on your hard drive, and the fact that you could play before, this configuration might work for you.
Whether getting extra storage would help depends on what you mean. More space in OneDrive is probably a waste of money, and it might not address your current issue anyway. But if your computer has room to add a second hard drive (and I'm not sure that it does), that would help a lot, with TS3 as well as whatever else you want to do with this computer. Otherwise, you really need to keep almost everything on an external drive. Even just having TS3 on your internal hard drive is a tight fit, as you're seeing now.
Once you've moved your game folder to external storage, launch the game a couple of times to see whether it works. Check both OneDrive and the Documents folder on your hard drive to see where the new game folder lands as well.
Okay thank you so much! I've ordered some external hard drive to store it in and that is probably going to arrive tomorrow, I will update the thread when it comes to see if it works and thank you so so much I am so grateful.
