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furby_irl
Seasoned Newcomer
2 days ago

sims 4 keeps crashing on the intro screen - sick of this

someone help me out. i've been working on this for about five days now. i've done everything - uninstalled and reinstalled the sims, (3 times!) uninstalled and reinstalled the ea app, validated all files about twenty times, removed all saves folders, removed all cc folders, moved the files to my desktop to create a clean file, restarted my computer, cleared up loads of disk space, deleted the sims 4 folder, deleted the ea folder, repaired the ea app, checked if windows firewall was blocking it, checked my drivers, and nothing is working! it just lags through the intro (recently, i got it to play some buggy music as the intro played) and then freezes on the title screen before minimizing itself and crashing. i can't stand this anymore. someone please help me out here. i've put my dxdiag below if it's any help.

also: something odd i noticed. what's meant to be a shortcut to the sims 4 on my desktop is instead a ".url" file with no thumbnail. don't know what that means.

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    furby_irl
    Seasoned Newcomer
    20 hours ago

    also: trying to allow it through firewall or malwarebytes, nothing shows up. it's treating the sims like it doesn't exist at all. maybe that's the problem? but i don't know why it would continue to not install necessary components since i've reinstalled it a million times

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    furby_irl
    Seasoned Newcomer
    20 hours ago

    okay? nevermind? it's suddenly fixed, on my sixth consecutive day of troubleshooting???

    for anyone wondering, i entered "-dx9" on steam launch options, and then it miraculously made it past the intro. i don't know why that worked! but it did! thank god. now i am going to troubleshoot the mods folder for five more hours

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