I have spent this entire week reading through these forums and watching YouTube videos to try to get my Sims 3 game working.
None of the fixes have worked. I am on the brink of giving up. I literally cannot think of anything I haven't tried and nothing is working.
Has anyone definitively figured out this ea app garbage? Should I just forget ever playing Sims 3 again?
Launcher is starting to act up and not load even with steam-- any thoughts?
@divaisdancing Do you have any custom content installed at the moment? Does Sims 3 run if you launch it from TS3W.exe without involving the launcher at all?
Please also post a new dxdiag so I can look for current issues.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
So I can't actually find the TS3W.exe now, but since it's through steam I'm not sure where it would be. However, I have been using the same CC and it has worked with my game no problem in the past and even when it briefly was working last week.
Also please see attached.
So I can't actually find the TS3W.exe now, but since it's through steam I'm not sure where it would be. However, I have been using the same CC and it has worked with my game no problem in the past and even when it briefly was working last week.
Also please see attached.
@divaisdancing The default location for TS3W.exe in a Steam install is this:
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin
Your dxdiag shows a number of crashes of Sims3Launcher.exe, but there are four different types of errors pointing to three different Windows resources. It's worth running DISM and sfc again, just to be thorough, even though the first pass should have addressed any corrupt Windows files. (And sfc told you it did just that.)
But the more likely issue is the data the launcher is trying to read. I can't tell you why you'd have the problem now and not before, only that it happens often enough to be worth testing with a clean folder. So if DISM and sfc don't help this time around, please move or rename the Sims 3 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts and see whether the launcher will open. And if it doesn't, please let me know how launching the game from TS3W.exe goes.
@kris_blurryface9 Yes, the Steam version of Sims 3 works better than the EA App version for a few reasons. However, you can't play through Steam unless you buy the game, and any packs you'd want to use, in Steam. Also, Sims 3 is not going to "get fixed" at all unless Maxis decides to do a remaster or remake. There is no Sims 3 dev team to fix anything, and the last update was released in January 2016.
So far the TS3W is working. We shall see how long it works for I guess lol
Thank you!
Hi Hero,
I've been reading your posts and you seem the most helpful/knowledgeable person on this matter.
I've been handed down a computer of which I was looking forward to playing the Sims3. BEST GAME EVER. I have most of the expansion disks, but it wouldn't launch from the launcher. I thought maybe it was my external disc reader being the issue, so I copied and pasted the games from the disc but same not launching...So I bought the base game from Steam as it was £18 instead of £30, but It was the same thing again.
I read thoroughly into these forums and have downloaded DIRECT X Patch and this ALDERLAKE Patch.... I restarted aswell... Am I doing something wrong? As it still isn't working... perhaps I am putting the files into the wrong places (I am not the best as computers. )
For context here is my computer specifications:
WINDOWS 11 PRO
Corsair one
Processor: 12th Gen Intel R Core tm i9-12900k 3.19GHZ
Memory: 32 GB
System type: 64-Bit operating X64 Based processor
If anyone can help.. this game has been my happy place for years I've been waiting for the day I can play it again.. I would send a gift/ chocs whatever to anyone that can get this game launching...
I don't know what else to do ...
