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michurii's avatar
10 years ago
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Sims 4 black screen with sound

Hello,

Whenever I attempt to open the Sims 4 It's just a black screen. I've tried deleting all my mods and cache and saves, repairing it in origin, but nothing seems to be working. Please help!

  • I figured it out, I found a stray save file in my documents(it wasn't in a sims folder), deleted it, and my game works now!

    I can't believe I didn't notice it until now. -____-

    Thanks so much for your help!!! :D

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  • I have tried every single one of those. 

    My spore game doesn't work either so I'm thinking maybe it's my computer???? 

    But it's only for the games. I can hear then perfect just can't see the picture and it's only happened after this last update. Also, I was moving my mouse around and it seems the buttons are all still there because my mouse changed over where the play button normally is. Don't know if that helps at all but this is pretty frustrating! I even tried the Sims black screen fix video on youtube but my game starts up with a black screen, it doesn't work and then suddenly turn to black screen. I currently have an ongoing case with a specialist or something, but so far nothing has worked.

    I've attached my DxDiag (more recent i believe)

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    And you're 100% sure that the game is running on the AMD card ? I don't really know how to do it with AMD.

    Also did the CAW Demo work at all ?

  • I figured it out, I found a stray save file in my documents(it wasn't in a sims folder), deleted it, and my game works now!

    I can't believe I didn't notice it until now. -____-

    Thanks so much for your help!!! :D

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    In what folder was the file exactly ?

    That sound very weird.

    I'm very happy that you can play again.

  • In my documents! Like it didn't reach the ea folder it is pretty weird because the only thing I've ever done with my save files is delete them!
  • Go to Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4

    Open Options.ini

    Make windowedfullscreen = 1

    Save and exit

    Play Sims 4

    There shouldn't be any black screen problem now.

  • EA_Atic's avatar
    EA_Atic
    Icon for DICE Team rankDICE Team
    6 years ago
    I'm closing this thread to stop it being necroed.
     
    If you have any issues with Sims 4 please make a new topic about the issues you are having and what kind of steps you have tried to solve it.
     
    /Atic