The clean boot didn't help me launch the game, but the renaming of those files did! Thank you so much.
So there must be an issue with the launcher. Is there any way I can fix it? Launcher is quite helpful to install custom content and to also select expansion packs.
I have been playing sims 3 now and the only issue is that my expansion packs aren't showing up (they are installed via origin but obviously without the launcher I cannot select them). The first time I opened the game after the fix, they were recognized but after I exited, pasted my mods folder into my new sims folder and opened again, the expansion packs no longer appeared.
Is there any way I can get my expansions to be recognized?
Thank you so much for the help!
@power9ranger Do the packs show up if you play in another clean Sims 3 folder? I realize that doesn't help with the launcher, but it would be helpful to know.
The pack selections are stored in Internet Explorer's cache somewhere, I don't know exactly where (or what the data looks like for that matter), so in theory you could select and deselect packs without the launcher. That's far from ideal though, and it also doesn't help with installing Sims3Packs.
For the launcher issue, please try opening it again, then look for a crash dump. Click Windows key-R and copy and paste this:
%LocalAppData%\CrashDumps
When you enter, you'll see a list of .dmp files. If one of them is from the launcher, please upload it to a third-party filehosting site (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and link it here.
If there is no launcher .dmp file, you can enable them:
Please use a clean Sims 3 folder while generating the crash dump.
