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crinrict
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11 years ago

Re: Unable to start: Initialization error at startup

  • Did you update or install anything yesterday ?
  • Did you try starting Origin as administrator ?
  • Did you use ccleaner to clean the whole registry or only remove the parts about Origin ?

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  • ToxxicRewind's avatar
    ToxxicRewind
    11 years ago

    Thank you so much for the quick response! 

    Nothing was updated or installed yesterday, except for an update to Microsoft.NET because it was suggested as a fix. However, it did not work prior to that either. Otherwise it was just uninstalled/re-installs of origin and the Sims 4. 

    I've run both Origin and the Sims 4 as administrator to no avail.

    CCleaner was used in between installs and the entire registry was cleaned. 

    Do you have any other possible suggestions?

  • ToxxicRewind's avatar
    ToxxicRewind
    11 years ago

    Okay, none of those were a solution, BUT, I did manage to figure out what was wrong:

    It seems as if the registry entries for my Documents etc folders were MIA, so manually adding them to the registry (http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm) fixed it and made TS4 finally decide to load! Seems like it was having an issue finding the Documents folder to add files to!

    Thank you for the help and happy simming! 🙂

  • yonashabby's avatar
    yonashabby
    8 years ago

    can you tell me how to find out how to do that ..I am having the same problem now

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Same here. It just started happening out of the blue. How do we fix this???

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    8 years ago

    Did you try all the suggestions posted in this thread ?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Everything except the adding/finding the documents, I don't know where to find them or add them. I clicked the link that was posted but it doesn't exist anymore.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    8 years ago
    The link just had a bad character in it. I fixed that. It should work now.

    Not sure if it applies to you though.

    What OS are you on ?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    I have windows 10. Not sure if that's what you mean, sorry I'm not that smart when it comes to computers. 😞

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
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    8 years ago
    Don't know if that fix works for Win 10 so I would not try it to be safe (especially if you're not comfortable around techie stuff on computers).

    And yes, that's what I meant.

    Did you try repairing the game through Origin yet ? Just right-click on the game and hit the option to repair.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yeah, I've done that many times, it was the first thing I tried and it didn't work. I removed all my mods and that didn't work, I uninstalled Origin and reinstalled it. Nothing has worked.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    The error message I get is this.
    Unable to start:
    Initialization error at start up.
    [135dec40:29f00e76:00000084: 18a 1 dd51]

    This started showing up about four days ago. Nothing on my laptop had changed. I hadn't downloaded anything, deleted anything, changed anything. It just started happening.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Thank you so much! It's working now!

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