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Britt_Hera
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4 days ago
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HELP! The Sims 4 crashes during launch or in the main menu

Hello!

Last year I bought this computer HP Victus gaming computer with this specs: Videocard: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU, Windows 11 Home, Version 10.0.26100, Version DirectX-runtime: DirectX 12, CPU: 13th Gen Intel R Core TM i7-13700H, RAM: 16.0 GB, SSD - 953.9 GB

Last year I played the Sims 4 just fine but when I want to play it now the game gets stuck during launch (flickering white and black screen, then white and it stops I need to force shutdown in taskforce) or it gets stuck in the main menu if I am even lucky to get there.

I tried a lot of things;

  • moving the sims folder from documents to desktop and restart
  • all updates in every programme possible
  • repair in the app
  • removing the full game and reinstallation of everything (even the app)
  • checking if videocard is recognised and adding it in graphic cards - config override
  • removing the xbox app
  • shutdown my auto protect of norton virus 
  • I never had any custom content or mods installed

I will add the dxdiag to this thread.

Thank you already for your help!

Kind regards

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  • As well I want to add that I can play other heavy games like Hogwarts Legacy or Baldurs Gate 3 just fine. As well I have enough space on my SSD.

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    Britt_Hera
    New Novice
    3 days ago

    You are a sweetheart! Thank you so much! I fiddled with the Intel Graphics on the computer. Very weird instead of taking Nvidia I took Intel Graphics in computer setttings, display and then graphics. Then in Nvidia configuration I took in 3d settings Nvidia as graphical processor and apparently it does take my Nvidia. Haha... Well it works and thank you soooo much again!

  • Britt_Hera  That's great to hear, and thanks for the update.  If it's not too much trouble, would you be able to provide a couple of screenshots to show exactly which settings you changed and in what order?  I'd like to have something to point other users to, and I don't have a Windows laptop and so can't create the screenshots myself.

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