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Anonymous

13 years ago

unable to start game service initialization failed 0x0175dcbb

After installing all the games and running the updates in conjunction this error message occurs "unable to start game service initialization failed 0x0175dcbb". When just installing the base Sims 3 ...

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crinrict

Hero+

13 years ago

See these threads.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Service-initialization-failed/td-p/65394

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-There-was-an-error-during-Startup/td-p/65390

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