Sims 4 flashes black and white then crashes
Good morning! This is an issue I started facing a day or two ago, and, despite all attempts, it keeps happening. When I start up the Sims 4, my screen goes white as if it's loading, but then i...
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Wombat_Justice You're not the first to upload someone else's dxdiag by mistake. I think some people have a look at another file and then grab that one instead of their own.
Anyway, your actual dxdiag lists a number of crashes of the graphics driver, or one of them. That could easily take down Sims 4 with it. So please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the driver, as described here:
You can find the newest Nvidia driver here:
Hi! So sorry for taking so long to get back, life is hell.
Anyway, I tried out that whole process (it took me forever, and it was extremely tiring and anxiety-inducing, especially as someone who is autistic and an idiot with technology). It did nothing, and I'm too scared to try that process again in fear of completely destroying my computer or something.
I've continued to try different things in my free time. I don't really remember what, not that it matters though since nothing has worked. I managed to get it open at some point but it ended up freezing before I could even do anything and I had to force it shut (no, I don't remember how I got it to open in the first place, so no I unfortunately cannot do it again ToT)
Despite trying to update everything I can, deleting my mods entirely, removing the sims 4 file repeatedly to create new folders, trying to open it through the EA app, steam, and even curseforge, it still is not working. It simply flashes black and white and crashes. Occasionally, I'll get an "Initialization Error at Startup" with the code [135dec40:598068e4:00000078:37b26003]", but, despite way too much time on google, reddit, and on here looking at old posts, still can't figure anything out.
I'll try adding a new file thing, but I'm not really sure of how helpful it'll be. Again, sorry for the late update, and I'm even more sorry about my pure idiocy with technology.
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