Sims 3 game will not load!
I have tried and tried to get my Sims 3 game to load the launcher works and everything, but I cannot get it to do much past that... I'm not sure what's wrong I tried reinstalling origin, I think Nort...
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Great to hear you got it fixed and thanks for the detailed report. There's so many different causes to this.
Question to rathowyn: I assume it still doesn't work if you start through Origin, right ? Does it work if you start Origin as administrator ? Reason I ask is since the newer base game version can't bypass Origin and people need to launch from Origin.
No problem on the detailed report; I figured it might help someone if they run into the same thing.
I just checked. My system has been running sluggishly so I restarted but it made no difference to Origin. Launcher works, nothing else. However, taking your advice and running Origin as an administrator worked beautifully! I'm no expert but I assume the launcher and game are inheriting Origin's admin rights. So that works nicely. I suppose an easy fix for the particular issue I encountered would be to set Origin to always run with admin privileges.
Quitting Origin and restarting without admin privileges also replicates the problem so it's definitely an admin rights issue. Setting the .exe itself to start as an admin each time fixes it.
If anyone isn't sure how to do that here's how on Windows 8.x (though it's the same in 7 and Vista as far as I recall):
- Navigate to the Origin install directory (mine is D:/Games/Origin but yours will depend on where you installed the client)
- Find the file titled Origin.exe
- Right-click it and select 'Properties'
- Go to the 'Compatibility' tab up the top.
- Under 'Settings' you'll likely see a few things about Reduced colour mode, 640x480 resolution and so on. Ignore those. You're looking for a check box labelled 'Run this program as an administrator'.
- Check that box and hit OK (or Apply).
Now every time you start the Origin client it'll ask for admin privileges - some people find that pretty annoying but I consider it a small price to pay for a working game.
Wow. The base game only runs through Origin now? If I was in that position I'm not sure if I'd have worked this fix out... :manfrustrated:
Glad that worked for you. I guess that's a good solution then for everyone.
Still working on mine. It is getting very frustrating, trying to find the exact mod(s) I need to remove. Are you sure there is not an easier way to do this? A magical clean-up program, mod, or something. Last night I worked on it for over 4 hours and left in disgust ready to put my fist thru my computer. But, I am not giving up, even if I do have 13,995 mods. I WILL find the culprit.... lol.. 😉 Any advice appreciated.
~Beth~
Have you tried removing the largest ones first, Beth? Or maybe removing the ones that affect gameplay the most? Wow, 13,995 mods...
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