Sims 3 Won't Launch on Windows 10

Thank you! I found the windows feature on or off, but it was checked for both .net framework 3.5 & .net framework 4.8. Maybe one day I'll actually understand what any of this stuff means! xD Thank you again! 

I unchecked and rechecked & I'll reboot the comp to see if it did anything to the game!

@roberta591  Thanks for letting me know about one drive. I feel like an idiot for mentioning this, I uninstalled it but unfortunately no one told me that my pc was relying on it for a majority of my file storage. When I went to clear out the files it erased all my EA documents. I find the hilarious part to be that the game actually loaded. 

However @puzzlezaddict was right about the graphics card and that could also explain why the launcher isn't fully loading with usual Sims 3 welcome page. Once I get my documents folder in order I will follow through on Puzzlez advice.

Update: The game still launches, I just can't access the social tab in the launcher (I can sign in through the welcome page in the game). While I normally wouldn't mind this, I know it'll stop me from using the downloadable content from the sims 3 website.

I just want to thank you both for trying to help me...

Update 2: The blank welcome page has been resolved after following another forum post. The deletion of One Drive and and the reinstallation of my graphics driver seems to have fixed it! Thank you so much!!!

@jborbs22  Sims 3 doesn't start correctly on most 12th-gen Intel processors, including yours.  The workaround is to limit the game to one CPU core as it's loading.  Please see the accepted solution of this thread for various approaches:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11057820#M248615

Apply the workaround of your choice to TS3.exe, without the W, since you installed through the EA App.

@Dr_Houdini   OneDrive is in other operating systems But the Windows version seems to be more annoying. IMO Microsoft keeping making it harder to avoid OneDrive. When I uninstalled the latest version I would get a notice that the operating system was having an issue with OneDrive. So I reinstalled it though the Microsoft store. You can configure Onedrive NOT to sync indiviudal folders. That kind of works but Windows still tries to run the game out of the user OneDrive folder instead of the user documents folder. If you check the box for keep files on this machine then OneDrive leaves it alone and the game now uses the folder in the user documents folder. As you found out uninstalling OneDrive can (and does) affect other programs.

add: When you get a blank welcome screen you need to clear the browsing history and cookies in Edge. Supposedly you can put Edge in the IE11 mode and emulate IE but I tried it once and couldn't get it to work - just try clearing  It used to be easy in IE11 but Microsoft in its infinite wisdom decided to disallow access to IE11. The game uses the APIs to communicate over the internet. As IE (internet explorer) was part of the Windows operating system, programmers use the APIs This is ok until users want to uninstall IE. Then the APIs are no longer available. This was an issue some time ago.

Windows 11

Open Edge - click settings - click privacy, search, and services. Look for clear browser data click clear browsing data now.Click line that says clear data for Internet  Explorer mode

This should fix the blank welcome screen issue. Windows 10 is almost the same. btw I don't normally use Edge.

As for your DLC - you can get the DLC in game - on the save game load page click the options lower left and click open downloads dashboard. Once in the game proper again in the options you can click the player profile and wall.

On the load game screen in the lower right click the learn more button. This will take you to the TS3 store.             tht

Study there will be a test tomorrow.

Thank you! I did manage to get the welcome page working again which is a blessing. I’ll try to work with one drive again soon but for now I’m just happy to be playing sims again. Thank you so much for your help!