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catsrule3906
4 years ago

The Sims 3 Won't Launch, Launcher redirects to origin, Windows 11

Hello 🙂
I downloaded TS3 as my wifi is terrible, so I can't download the sims 4. I downloaded several expansions packs, basically all but World Adventure, Island Paradise, Ambitions and Generations. I was ready to play, and I kept getting the pop up about multiple expansion packs. So I clicked OK (and even cancel the second time) and the launcher exited the program, but never opened. It instead redirected to Origin. I clicked play, same thing, clicked cancel instead. Nope. Ran as administrator, nope! 
I really just wanna play, is there an easy fix to this? Here's my laptop specs:


Processor Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4500 @ 1.10GHz 1.11 GHz
Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.84 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

thank you 🙂))

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @catsrule3906  Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

    https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

    By the way, it's likely that Pets will run badly on your computer, and probably Seasons as well.  This is due to the speed of your processor and its graphics chip.  Because you only have 4 GB memory, you'll also probably run into trouble with long-running saves, or even not so long-running saves—even a new save can use close to 2 GB RAM, and Windows needs a lot of memory too.  Not playing with all packs at once will lessen the burden somewhat, but you still may see issues befor too long.

    All this is not to say you won't be able to play at all, only that you probably won't see the performance you're hoping for.

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