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Anonymous
11 years ago
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Sims 3 won't open after launcher

I have tried everything, going to the TS3 file and opening from that, running files as administrator, trying to open from origin.  Nothing seems to work and I can't go through and uninstall my games because to reinstall them would use all my data usage for the month.

I have a Toshiba Satellite P755 with 6 GB RAM and a 64-bit operating system, and it runs on Windows 7.  I have been playing my games perfectly fine since I got them.  The last time I got on my game crashed, which has happened before when I get too fast forward happy with my Sims, but when I got on the next time I couldn't get into the game.  Nothing was updated or patched in between when the game crashed and me trying to get on again, I had already updated to the most recent patch a couple days before this happened.

Please help, I'm not the most computer savvy person and I just want to play my game.

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  • Technolove420's avatar
    Technolove420
    7 years ago

    mine is also doing that and i have the sims 3 on origin and when i go to play it it just sits there and does nothin can someone please tell me when im doing wrong?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    7 years ago

    @Technolove420  Have you tried the solution described on the first page of this thread?  Pulling your entire TS3 game folder out of Documents and launching the game again, thereby forcing a clean folder to spawn, often solves this kind of problem.  Once you confirm that you can load and play a new save, you can start moving your existing saves and other content into the new folder from the old one.

    If this doesn't help, try clearing Origin's cache.  You can go even further and completely uninstall and reinstall Origin itself, which wouldn't affect your installed games.  Be sure to select "the hard way."

    https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/faq/clear-cache-to-fix-problems-with-your-games/

    https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/origin/origin/manually-uninstalling-origin/

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
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    4 years ago

    @the_sun_alpha  What exactly happens when you try to play?  Please give a bit more information about the issue, and I'll try to help.

  • xBlaizx's avatar
    xBlaizx
    4 years ago

    I had the same problem with my Sims 3, where the screen would open two black windows and then go back to the desktop without running the game.

    The way I fixed this problem was to download Driver Booster from IObit, then scan and update all the drivers needing an update. This is a relatively quick and easy way to fix this problem and no need to delete any folders etc. Whenever having weird issues with your computer, I'd always look for driver and/or BIOS-updates for my computer =)

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