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randyowo02
Rising Newcomer
1 day ago

sims 3 error: system.io.ioexception

Greetings everyone!

I've been trying to get The Sims 3 to launch all day. I downloaded it from steam , and I can open the launcher but from there the game doesn't open.

I came across the thread discussing that the game doesn't run on newer GPU's, and installed the Adler Lake Patch. When I run it and choose TS3W for my executable file, I get the error in the picture attached. 

I've tried the Task Manager method with changing the set affinity as well. Has anyone ran into error: system.io.ioexception and know a solution?

technical issues

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    17 hours ago

    randyowo02​  Please restart your computer and try again to run the Alder Lake patch.  Don't allow Steam or the EA App to open, including in the Task Manager's background processes list.

    If that doesn't help, delete the Bin folder here, again with Steam and the EA App closed:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game

    Open Steam, right-click Sims 3, and select Properties > Installed Files > Verify integrity of game files.  This will download a fresh set of Bin files.  Run the Alder Lake fix again, but again make sure that nothing from Steam or the EA App is running.

    To be clear, in order to run the patch, you don't need to place any files inside Bin, or inside the Sims 3 folder in general.  Once you've extracted the .zip, you run the patcher itself and choose TS3W.exe, but the patcher doesn't need to be in the same location.

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