Re: Unable to start: Initialization error at startup

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

11 Replies

Anonymous
7 years ago
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Same here. It just started happening out of the blue. How do we fix this???
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Did you try all the suggestions posted in this thread ?
Anonymous
7 years ago
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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
Hero+
7 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
7 years ago
Approved
I have windows 10. Not sure if that's what you mean, sorry I'm not that smart when it comes to computers. 😞
crinrict
Hero+
7 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
7 years ago
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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
7 years ago
Approved
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.
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Can you try this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sim-4-Initialization-error-at-start-up-OR-Sims-4-is-Already/td-p/6412439 ?
Anonymous
7 years ago
Approved
Thank you so much! It's working now!
crinrict
Hero+
7 years ago
Glad to hear.

Thanks for your feedback.