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
Britt_Hera Please try one of these suggestions:
Game won’t launch | EA Forums - 4992631
Managed to fix my problem where it crashes during launch after update | EA Forums - 4998584Or disable the Intel graphics chip, or put the laptop in night mode before trying to play. None of these fixes works for everyone, but something almost always does.
Please also disable Game Mode and Game Bar, both under Windows Settings > Gaming.