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5 years ago

Sims 3 Launcher Not Working

Hello,

I am really hoping I can fix this problem by writing here as I have searched for about 2 weeks now on how to fix this ☹️

I also have seen a lot of people with this problem also, but my problem still persists after many attempts to fix it using suggestions from other forums like this.

On my computer, a Windows 8.1 x64 PC, I have been receiving some problems in opening and playing Sims 3. Whenever I press the option to play Sims 3 in Origin or double click the shortcut on my desktop, a pop-up message comes up on my computer stating 'Sims 3 Launcher has stopped working.', with a loading bar. (The pop-up message only appears a few seconds and then reverts me back to Origin, perhaps my computer or Origin thinking I am playing the game, when obviously, I am not).

This is extremely frustrating because there have been countless errors, for some reason, for Sims 3 (specifically Sims 3 ?? Sims 4 seems to running fine, no problems at all). I also had an error about a week ago stating that there was a 'Bad Image - 'ie frame.dll' contains an error'. However, I was able to fix this with a CHKDSK scan, but the pop-up message still persisted. Could this be linked in any way?

I have tried numerous resolutions, but I would be happy to try them again or any other solutions. I really want to look at resetting my computer as a super last resort, as I don't really want to go through the stress and disappointment of losing all of my save files and custom content, for an error that has seen fixes for other people.

I really am stuck, please could someone help me 🙂

Thanks.

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