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Beautbooks
2 years ago
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Sims 4 not launching

Hi, please help. Yesterday I found Sims 4 will not launch, I had just played Sims 4 earlier and closed the game then when I went to open it again the shortcut threw up an error (apologies I did not s...
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    Beautbooks
    2 years ago

    @puzzlezaddict I found the issue! I needed to repair all editions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables on my PC. I repaired them all and restarted my computer and Sims launched for me. I have since restarted the Sims and it launched and let me back into the games saved etc. 

    Thank you so much for your help! I would not have gone looking if I didn't already narrow down a lot of things thanks to you!

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puzzlezaddict
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2 years ago

@Beautbooks  I do see the problem: reg query is part of the command, but you haven't copied that part.

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Beautbooks
2 years ago

@puzzlezaddict I found the issue! I needed to repair all editions of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables on my PC. I repaired them all and restarted my computer and Sims launched for me. I have since restarted the Sims and it launched and let me back into the games saved etc. 

Thank you so much for your help! I would not have gone looking if I didn't already narrow down a lot of things thanks to you!

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