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3 months ago

Black screen upon launch

Hi would anyone know how to resolve this issue? I’ve just downloaded the sims 4 on my pc but Everytime I try to start it up my screen goes black (no cursor and the screen is frozen so I can’t access anything on my pc until I restart it) and it plays the theme song. I’ve seen people have a similar issue however none of the things suggested to do to fix it have worked after 2 hours of troubleshooting.


First I downloaded it on ea but it didn’t work so I redownloaded it on steam and the same issue kept happening, I tried clearing my cache, updated my graphics card, made sure all files were on the same storage device, tried starting the game windowed instead of full screen, verified the files, then redownloaded it back to ea and repaired the files… still nothing, I have no add ons or expansion packs downloaded or mods for that matter and my pc has more than enough storage, ram and a good enough graphics card to handle the game so I’m really confused what the issue is.

if anyone has anymore troubleshooting steps I could follow please let me know I’ll try anything at this point.

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  • Viviana_Ciara  Please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop.  When you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you've moved but temporarily unread by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just start a new save and see how it runs, that is if you can get that far.

    If you get another black screen, please provide a dxdiag.  Click Windows key-R, enter dxdiag in the run box, wait for the scan to finish, click "Save all information," and save the file to your desktop.  From there, you can attach it to a reply using the paper clip (Attachment) icon included with the other formatting buttons.

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