Sims 3 not launching

Hello! I have sims 3 on steam and have gotten a new laptop in the past year, and now my game won't open. I have windows 11, and a 2025 asus gaming laptop.

It opens the launcher, but when I click play, nothing happens. Steam shows that it is still running. I have tried the following:

• going in files and running as administrator
• Changing cpu to either 1 or 0
• Checking net framework 3.5 in control panel (which is still checked)
• The lazy duchess mod, which I later deleted 

I have gotten the game to launch 1 time, and it immediately popped up with an error. After that I repaired my game through steam, and now I cant get it to open again. I don't remember what I had done to get it to play, either. I feel like I have read every thread forum, ever reddit post, and every Google ai summary, and YouTube videos only show changing the CPU. I feel stuck, and I just want to play Sims 3 again!