Re: TS4 or Origin not launching after Microsoft Windows Updates

@g0lding  Your VPN or a related process is crashing, a lot, in fact so much so that among the last ten errors in your dxdiag, only one relates to Sims 4 directly.  Do you have Avast?  If so, try manually updating it—some of the crashes are from the update tool.  If you don't have Avast (multiple companies use the same name for some of their .exe files), please search your computer for "VpnUpdate," and look for any instance of VpnUpdate.exe.  It should be inside the folder of whatever program is using it; update that program, or uninstall and reinstall it.

If you have Avast or another antivirus program that uses VpnUpdate, please add TS4_x64.exe, TS4.exe, and Origin.exe as exceptions.  Please also set Origin to run the 64-bit version of the game, and undo the compatibility settings you've been using.