Screen goes black a couple seconds after I load into a lot
The game seems to work fine in CAS, but when i try to actually play on a lot/go into build mode, it crashes almost immediately, regardless of which lot I choose. The screen turns black and I have to hold down the power button to force it to shut down because I can’t click anything. I removed all of my mods, and it continued to happen, so I moved the entire Sims 4 folder onto my desktop and tried again with a fresh save file. It didn’t crash, so at least my game isn’t beyond repair. I tried just adding the save files back, and it crashed again when I tried to play on a lot, so I figured it had something to do with those, but then I removed the save files and tried with just tray files + mods and it crashed again…
This wasn’t an issue for me a couple days ago. What is causing this, and will I be able to use my old save?
(BTW I play in windowed mode, and my graphics settings are set to high)
clarawful This may not have anything to do with Sims 4, at least not directly. This particular service is part of the Intel Computing Improvement Program, which is fine to have installed but doesn't need to be running while you play. The same can be said for other services that might be active. So please try playing in a clean boot:
The one service to leave enabled is the EABackgroundService, which the EA App needs in order to run. Disable the rest as described.
When you reboot your computer, go through the Task Manager's background processes list shutting down any service that doesn't absolutely need to be running, for example anything from MSI Afterburner to RGB software might still be enabled. If you accidentally kill a critical process and it doesn't restart on its own, just reboot your computer again. And make sure this Intel service isn't showing, or shut it down.
Don't open anything other than Sims 4 and the EA App while testing, not even a browser window.