The Game won't launch
After clicking play in the launcher all I get is a black screen before it closes and spits out a xcpt file in my The Sims 3 folder. I have tried every single solution that I could find online and hav...
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LiaKnow It looks from your dxdiag like Sims 3 is using the Intel integrated graphics chip, which it shouldn't be doing, rather than the Nvidia graphics card. Are you trying to play with the laptop running on battery? If so, please plug it in instead.
If that alone doesn't help, right-click your desktop, select the Nvidia Control Panel, click Manage 3D Settings > Program settings, find TS3.exe on the list, and choose the high-performance Nvidia graphics option. If that doesn't help either, open Windows Settings > System > Display > Graphics settings, find TS3.exe on the list (click Browse if you don't see it), and choose the high-performance option there.
puzzlezaddictI tried all of your suggestions and it unfortunatly still doesn't work, I used The Sims 3 Crash Log Analyser and it's telling me that the likley cause is "Unknown (ACCESS_VIOLATION reading adress *a bunch of numbers/letters*)" and I have no idea what that means. I changed all the permissions on d3d9.dll in system32 hoping that would help but it was in vain.
