3 years ago
Sims 4 not launching
Hey! I recently tried downloading g-shade which has messed up my Sims 4 game completely. Every time i try to open it a small window pops up saying “There is a problem with your games set up. Please t...
@lolcg Do you have a standalone antivirus, and if so, does it help to set exceptions for TS4_x64.exe and Origin.exe? If you do use a third-party program and adding exceptions doesn't help, please let me know which one it is.
Your dxdiag doesn't list any errors that would explain why Sims 4 wouldn't open, which makes me think it's more likely being blocked rather than crashing. But to double-check, please look for any related crash dumps. Click Windows key-R and copy and paste this:
%LocalAppData%\CrashDumps
When you enter, you'll see a list of .dmp files. If one of them is from Sims 4 or Origin, please upload it to a third-party filehosting site (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.) and link it here. If you see a crash dump that was written at exactly the time the game crashed, I'd like that too. But in either case, please only upload files from after we started troubleshooting here.
If there is no Sims 4 .dmp file, you can enable them:
Hello, I'm having the same problem as @lolcg. I went to crashdumps but was not sure what to do next. (My game starts with a white screen and closes exiting but to origin). If you can help that would be awesome.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q5fmF7f8A7EoSk7hhX8d9yLCLef2pdCXqkI8-fOsb9Q/edit?usp=sharing