Sims 3 won’t launch
The game was launching fine the night before. No windows updates. Won’t launch today. I get try later or its already running. Tried everything including disabling all mods and changing the sims 3 doc...
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leahmay74 Your dxdiag is full of crashes of the graphics driver, and while that wouldn't usually cause an "already running" error, it could cause a "failed to launch game" error. And this kind of crash should be addressed regardless of the other symptoms. So please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the driver, as described here:
Since there's always a chance that the newest driver isn't working perfectly, please install a slightly older driver, maybe one from December or January. You can get them here:
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
You'll want a Game Ready Driver, not a Studio Driver, which is for professional workloads.
As for the errors themselves, "already running" usually means a permissions issue: the game can't read or write to the user folder in Documents > Electronic Arts. "Failed to launch game" can mean anything at all, including a crash after the game launches, and one cause is not restarting the computer after the last crash. So it's not useful by itself other than to say the game is in fact crashing rather than being blocked from launching.
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