Unable to install The Sims 3 from EA app
Hi, if anyone can assist me with this issue, I am getting this error code every time I am trying to install The Sims 3: error the vc++ runtime redistributable package was not installed successfully...
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kay-lunas Sorry for the late reply; it looks like your post was moved here from somewhere else. Please try uninstalling and reinstalling the 2015-2022 VC++ runtimes instead. Sims 3 doesn't use them, but the EA App does, and sometimes reinstalling these runtimes gets around a hang on install like this.
It sounds like you already know how to do this in general, but please make sure you uninstall every runtime from 2015 or newer, and that you install both 2022 runtimes (x86 and x64), which you can find here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
Restart after installing and before trying to play.
If you need further help, please tag me so I don't miss the reply, although that shouldn't happen now that you're in the Sims 3 forum.
