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3 years ago
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my sims suddently stopped working

a few days ago my sims suddently wouldnt open from the launcher, ive tried searching on the internet but i havent gotten any answers. when i click the launch button from the ea app, it closes out as if its starting up the game, then it opens the ea app again. the game doesnt get launched, ive looked in the task manager on my pc and the sims doesnt appear there. ive tried repairing the game, uninstalling and installing again, moved the game to a different disk, seen if my disk needed updates and nothing has worked so far. 

on the internet it says i either have to update my disks which are already updated, or that ive got a virus but ive recently wiped my pc and its not doing the same to other games. i have plenty of disk space and the game hasnt crashed before. ive got a pretty powerful pc so i dont think thats the issue.

anyone got any ideas?

im kinda new to this and im sorry if this has been answered before :c

  • @tanquilsio  As a test, please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, if it launches, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just let me know whether you can get far enough to start a new save and play in live mode for a bit.

    If that doesn't help, please post a new dxdiag.

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  • my sims game doesnt work when i have expansion packs downloaded

    the packs i have are:

    sims 4 vampires

    sims 4 strangerville

    sims 4 seasons

    sims 4 island living

    sims 4 get famous

    sims 4 discover university

    sims 4 cottage living

    sims 4 city living

    sims 4 cats & dogs

    all of these packs have worked together before but they suddenly stopped working and my game doesnt launch.

    i click on the play button on the ea app and it says im playing, but nothings showing up on screen or in taskbar.

    i dont know if its crashing or if its just not launching.

    the only thing that happens when i click on the launch button is the log-in screen of the ea app shows up with nothing on it, then it quickly closes out of it and the ea app appears on screen again. nothing happens afterwards.

    ive tried deleting the game and re-downloading it but the expansion packs are still there by default and i cant remove them from the game.

    i have no idea if its one of the expansion packs that is corrupted or if its all of them, and i dont know how to fix it.

    please help

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    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @tanquilsio  As a test, please try playing in a clean user folder.  Move the entire Sims 4 folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, and when you launch the game, if it launches, a clean folder will spawn with no content.  (Your saves and other content will be intact in the folder you moved but temporarily not read by the game.)  Don't add anything to the new folder yet; just let me know whether you can get far enough to start a new save and play in live mode for a bit.

    If that doesn't help, please post a new dxdiag.

  • tanquilsio's avatar
    tanquilsio
    2 years ago

    ok moving the old folder to the desktop and starting a new save worked, all of the expansion packs work too. playing the game works so far so i think that actually fixed it. there mightve been something corrupted in my old sims file so im glad you suggested to let the game make a new one. thank you so so much for all your help this far <3

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    puzzlezaddict
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    2 years ago

    @tanquilsio  That's great to hear.  And you can try moving your saves or anything else you'd like to keep to the new user folder if you want.  When this happens, usually the corrupted file is not in saves or Tray but elsewhere.

    Let me know if you need any more help.

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