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@yankikkie I can help you get your graphics card recognized if you want, but it's unlikely that has anything to do with your save not loading. All it would do is tell the game what default profile to use for your card. If you want to try anyway, please post the section of deviceconfig between "Graphics device info" (about 25 lines down) and "Options" (about 40 lines down). I'll write out the lines you need to add.
What's more likely to help is trying to load the save in a clean user data folder. Move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content. Please try starting a new save, just to make sure it works; if it does, you don't need to play it, just quit and then copy over the backup version of your existing save, nothing else. Let me know whether it loads.
While having a dedicated graphics card is generally better than not, an Intel UHD 630 is actually something like 500% faster than an Nvidia GT 210. The 210 is over a decade old and was never all that fast to begin with, and while a UHD 630 isn't going to run the game on anything resembling ultra settings, it does run it. If you did want to add a dedicated card to this computer, which may be but is not certainly possible, it would be better to get something resembling a modern card, but of course that would cost money, maybe $150 U.S. (or a bit higher in other countries) for an entry-level gaming card.
I googled this issue and the text that showed up was
What's more likely to help is trying to load the save in a clean user data folder. Move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop
now all my saves and mods are gone. Is there any way to get them back and what did i do wrong?
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