Sims 3 won't work on windows 11

Update! I got it to play using the EA app. But now when I click open a world to play. It says a serious error has occurred, and it closes out of the world back to the main menu.  Help? 

So, oddly enough, I started installing the Sims 3 on an older pc and it asked for the game code. (four-digit numbers 5 in a row)

But when I do this on my Windows 11. It never asked for that code. Could this be the problem?

I hope I didn't stump you or give you a headache! I've been very grateful for all the help!! 

Alright, so checked into the video card settings, did nothing.  I can't seem to get that link to open so i'll have to try and look into that another way. 

At this point id be down for letting you link with my pc puzzle and look at it lol. I just want this game to work, and it wants to instead make me scream when it doesn't. 

Brand new Pc. Super amount of space for the game, etc.  I'll look into this. My Pc is brand new, so the graphics card is newer! 

Hello xman_iceman, I am going to throw this out there to you... for starters, how much space do you have remaining on your PC after you have installed the game? 

The Sims 3 base game plus 9 EPs would take up somewhere between 25 and 30 GB of storage, depending on which expansions are purchased to go with the base game, if any. So, for just the Base Game alone, it requires: 1 Gig of Ram, 6.1 GB of HDD + at the very least 1 gig, if not more for any Sims 3 Store content, Custom Content, and game file saves, or any pictures you may wish to take while playing the game, etc. So, to be safe... we recommend having at least 10 gigs (after game installation) of space to run just the base game alone efficiently.

Now, with the above said, I have read that once the game is installed it is suggested that you have at least 20-30 gigs of free space left over on your PC to ensure that not only the Sims 3 can run smoothly plus expansions which usually requires the full 30, but also will accommodate all other functions of your PC components plus any other programs you may have installed that may also require being run or updated in the background without straining your PC and causing interference with your game play.  Each PC though runs differently as to how it handles, more so, when everyone has different programs/other games installed on their PC. So the demand on programs running in the background or needed space on your PC will vary with each system. 

With this, I have heard that some players can run their games... fairly well on 25-30 gigs remaining on their PC, while others complain it doesn't work as well and discovered they needed at least 40+ gigs to ensure a smooth experience. 

Additionally, Graphics card issues.... I have windows 11 and a strong MSI gaming PC. With this, I needed to go to the Carl Sim's site to get help with a graphics card fix so my graphics card will be recognized with this game. If you have a graphics card that is newer than the Sims 3 was created to handle, this can cause your game to either crash, not load at all, or the graphics will be so poor, the game will disappoint, even if you tried to set the graphics in the game to the highest settings. Plus I had to do some tweaking in my NVidia Control Panel to ensure the game and graphics ran more smoothly. So, the Graphics Card Sgr and the Graphics Card Rules Sgr need to be updated to accommodate your higher-end card.

So, if your graphics card is not recognized by the game, this too could interfere with your game not starting up as it should. 

Just in case... here is the site to the Graphics Card Fix. It is sooo easy to do and works like a pro for many Sims 3 players. 

https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=jgoh7hv4d45ofmgpj7c642k4t0&topic=26753.msg446248#msg446248

Then tweak your NVidia card by doing the following: 

Go to Nvidia Control Panel:

Manage 3D Settings

Program Settings (Tab in the upper right of the right side of the screen)

Select The Sims 3

Set Antialiasing Mode to “Override any Application Setting”

Set Texture Filtering- Quality to High Quality

Set Antialiasing-Gamma to Correction On.

Also be sure to Cap your FPS (Frames Per Second). The game lacks a limit to which the GPU renders several thousand FPS.  The uncapped FPS will generate unnecessary heat, cause massive lag, and potential GPU failure. Set max frame rate for this particular game to 60 in your graphics card control panel. This game won't require any more than that. Of course, if you have a monitor that runs on a higher Hz, your frame rate should match (or slightly exceed) your display's Hz. So, if your screen runs at say... 144 Hz, your FPS should be set at 144-150.

I hope any of these will be found helpful to you! 

Should be open to view now, Sorry

xman_iceman​  The file requires a sign-in.  Please set it so that "anyone with the link" can view it.  If you don't want it to be public, you can remove the link from your post and DM it to me instead.

Alright, so it worked that time. It told me "The operation completed successfully."

Followed the other steps. Nothing happened. 

So i attempted to create my own dump file 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QVt-YP4FqhOjLUnULNoEs5xcPzVVlxDF/view?usp=drive_link

Hope that works? 

xman_iceman​  I did not mean to put down Sims 4, but I help with both and the keys are right next to each other, so I occasionally don't catch the typo/autopilot response.  (I do normally check though.)

I went back to my original macro for crash dumps and double-checked the command:

reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD

I didn't see the issue at first, but it looks like you stripped out the quotation mark before HKLM.  The outside quotes should be removed (as I've done above), but not the ones inside the command.

billblogs Sorry but i'm sticking with the professional here!

As for the crash file, nothing pulled up that timed up with it.  

Alright, so I got as far as (In the window, paste "reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD" ) and this is what i get 

C:\Windows\System32>reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error Reporting\LocalDumps\devenv.exe" /v DumpType /d 2 /t REG_DWORD

ERROR: Invalid syntax.

Type "REG ADD /?" for usage.

So not sure what is going on there, Also, not sure if you meant to put down sims 4