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margsanxhez
8 months ago
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Sims 3 Not Working

Hi, I'm a long time The Sims player and have had the Sims 3 for at least 5 years. This is the first time ever I've felt the need to ask for help on a forum like this. On the old computer I had, I ha...
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    DeadofWinter321
    8 months ago

    I had that issue when I got my Dell gaming laptop (running Windows 11).  What fixed it (and you unfortunately have to do this every time you want to launch the game) was after I pull up the Sims 3 launcher, you press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, pull up the Task Manager and then right-click Sims Launcher under Apps, click Go to details and then locate Sims3Launcher.exe, scroll to Set affinity and make sure only one one CPU is checked (for me, there was CPU 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4) then go back to the Sims 3 launcher and press the Play button again.  That worked for me.

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DeadofWinter321
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8 months ago

I had that issue when I got my Dell gaming laptop (running Windows 11).  What fixed it (and you unfortunately have to do this every time you want to launch the game) was after I pull up the Sims 3 launcher, you press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, pull up the Task Manager and then right-click Sims Launcher under Apps, click Go to details and then locate Sims3Launcher.exe, scroll to Set affinity and make sure only one one CPU is checked (for me, there was CPU 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4) then go back to the Sims 3 launcher and press the Play button again.  That worked for me.

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