Hey, did you ever find a fix to this? I'm having a similar problem rn and i'm stunned. My Sims 3 seemed to work fine until I tried it earlier this week. ☹️ I'm really sad, I don't love the Sims 4 nearly as much and idk what to do. I feel like EA just doesn't care as much anymore for poeple having difficulties with their older games.
@xuiliajuicebox As a test, please try playing in a clean user folder. Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, if it launches, a clean folder will spawn with no content. (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.) Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just let me know whether you can get far enough to start a new save and play in live mode for a bit.
If this doesn't help, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
