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@OddChild707 Once you've emptied the recycle bin, your content is gone. Even a data recovery app may not be able to restore everything, and those can be expensive.
Try forcing the game to launch in windowed mode. Open your Origin game library, right-click on the Sims 4 icon, select Game Properties > Advanced Launch Options, enter -w (with the hyphen) in the command line box, and save. Then try to play.
If that doesn't help, please try the other steps listed in the first post of this thread:
if none of them help, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
- 5 years ago
Here's the Dxdiag file, all the other options didn't work because I uninstalled my Anti-virus software a few days ago while I was on a live chat with EA.
- puzzlezaddict5 years agoHero+
@OddChild707 Please try doing a clean uninstall and reinstall of Origin:
- Quit Origin, then right-click on the Task Bar and open the Task Manager. Scroll through looking for Origin entries. If you find any, click on them and End Task.
- Clear Origin's cache.
- Download Revo Uninstaller (the free version is fine) from here.
- Launch Revo, select Origin from the list, and click Uninstall.
- When it finishes uninstalling, select "Moderate" under "scanning modes," and click Scan.
- If Revo finds any remaining registry entries, select all, delete, and click Next.
- Revo will display "Remaining Data and Folders. Select all of them except for the "Origin Games" folder, if it appears. (This is where Sims 4 and other Origin games are installed by default.) Delete the rest.
- Close Revo, and restart your computer.
Next, download the full Origin installer and run it. Here's the direct download link:
http://download.dm.origin.com/origin/live/OriginSetup.exe
Be sure to run both the installer and Origin itself as an admin: right-click on each and select "Run as Administrator."
If this doesn't help, please look for relevant entries in the Reliability Monitor. Hit Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes. You'll see a list of errors and updates, with a column for each day. (Today is all the way on the right.)
For any errors that mention Origin or Sims 4 reinstall Origin, click "View technical details," then copy the information and paste it into a reply here. Sometimes the Reliability Monitor doesn't update right away, so if you don't see any related errors, be sure to check back an hour or two. The timestamp on the initial chart can also be off by up to an hour, so that's not an entirely reliable metric, but the one within the technical details should be accurate.
- 5 years ago
Description
A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows.
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Origin\Origin.exeProblem signature
Problem Event Name: AppHangB1
Application Name: Origin.exe
Application Version: 10.5.89.45622
Application Timestamp: 5fbbf5d4
Hang Signature: 11cc
Hang Type: 0
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: 11cce903406cbe58e43aac51dab56521
Additional Hang Signature 2: a21b
Additional Hang Signature 3: a21ba26b43855dff55f664de9855115f
Additional Hang Signature 4: 11cc
Additional Hang Signature 5: 11cce903406cbe58e43aac51dab56521
Additional Hang Signature 6: a21b
Additional Hang Signature 7: a21ba26b43855dff55f664de9855115fExtra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 50