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3 years ago
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Origin won't launch without glitching and Sims 4 won't open at all

Please Help, My Sims 4 game won't open at all and now my origin is glitching. I am playing off of a IMac with a M1 chip with the latest update of Ventura 13.3.1. I have tried to reinstall origin, I have deleted all my mods and hard restarted my computer. I ran the origin reset tool multiple times and nothing is working. The last time I was able to play smoothly was April the 11th and now nothing works. To be super specific when I try to open origin it opens in my dock 3 times and it won't let me do anything but type in my password if I try to press show password or stay logged in it goes blank and resets to the login screen. I have to press enter on my keyboard to log in. I can't even quit correctly, when I press exit it freeze and says the game won't respond. So, I have to force quit every time time. When I try to open my sims it won't start at all it doesn't even show up in my dock area. It like it doesn't work at all. I have deleted the sims 4 out of the applications folder and everything but nothing will open the game. I have every add-on with the exception of a few kits so please help!

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    BlazinJinxx
    3 years ago
    @Bluebellflora While I was waiting on a response, I used migration assistant and I installed origin and the sims on my laptop and transferred it over to the desktop. I don’t have any issues now. Im not sure what changed or if it will happen again but for now everything looks good and is working with no glitches.

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    Bluebellflora
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    3 years ago
    @BlazinJinxx

    Great! So you did a clean install of the game and Origin on the laptop, backed it up and then used that backup in migration assistant on the iMac? Did you migrate everything over as if you were setting up a new Mac?

    That's a great workaround, albeit a bit laborious though. Could you provide the full specs from both the Macs, everything minus the serial number from About This Mac? Would be very interesting to see the differences.
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    BlazinJinxx
    3 years ago
    @Bluebellflora Yep! I noticed that my MacBook didn't have any issues, so I cleaned my Imac in case of some conflicting flies and started fresh wiping the entire hard drive then used migration assistant to transfer the files over from the laptop. (Making sure I backed up important files externally)

    The specifications are:
    2021 IMac - Chip Apple M1, Memory 8, Macintosh HD with MacOS Ventura 13.3.1

    2020 Macbook Pro - 2.3 GHz Quad- Cose Intel Core i7, Graphics Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536Mb, Memory 16GB, MacOs Ventura 13.3.1
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    Bluebellflora
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    3 years ago
    @BlazinJinxx

    I am really loving this fix that worked for you. It's genius in a slightly nerdy way 🙂 and also really interesting. Thanks again for posting it and explaining what worked. Love it!