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Anonymous
13 years ago
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The Sims 3 Keeps Minimizing!

I installed The Sims 3, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, and Pets onto my Asus laptop last night. I went to play it and after a couple minutes it minimized into my task bar. So I clicked on the ic...
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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I've been having this issue and killing myself trying to fix it!

    I FINALLY FIXED IT!

    I noticed that the full screen resolution that it was setting my game to was way off. When I changed the resolution in the game it stopped minimizing itself. Here is how to fix it and keep it fixed!

    Right click on your desktop-> Screen Resolution -> write down recommended (mine is 1920x1200)

    Then go to My Documents/Electronic Arts/ The Sims 3
    Open the Options.ini file
    search for Resolution
    (it should have 3 numbers after it separated by spaces)

    change the first number to the first number of your recommended resolution
    and the second number to the second recommended resolution and leave the third number alone

    EX: resolution = 1920 1200 60 (that's mine)

    Save it, restart the sims

    Hopefully you will be playing in no time!

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Its been a while, but thought I would share what I found in case it helps anyone. I've been having this problem for the last couple of days. In my case the problem seems to be a configuration tool for my (new) wireless card.

Obviously this is quite specific to my situation. However, as someone else said on this thread check to see what changes have happened to the operating system. I spent quite a while looking at the task manager via Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

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    crinrict
    Hero+
    11 years ago

    Thank you

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