@Minegamer612 Weird, but not unheard-of. This kind of problem can happen when there's something trying to sync the user folder, for example OneDrive, or when an antivirus program blocks the game's access to the Documents directory. So each possibility is worth testing.
First though, to be thorough, it's a good idea to uninstall and reinstall the 2015-2019 VC++ runtimes. While it doesn't sound like this is your issue from your description, all the errors in your dxdiag reference a component of the runtimes, so it's worth doing, and simple enough.
Click Windows key-i, select Apps, and scroll down to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables. Click on the 2015 (or 2017, or 2015-2019) versions, both x86 and x64, and Uninstall. (Don't touch the versions from any other year.) Then download and install new versions directly from Microsoft:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2977003/the-latest-supported-visual-c-downloads
You need both the x86 and x64 versions, but you can skip the ARM version, which is for a different class of device. Restart your computer before trying to play.
If this doesn't help, please make sure OneDrive isn't set to automatically sync the contents of Documents. And if you have a third-party antivirus, disable it when you play. As long as you don't run anything other than Origin and Sims 4, your computer should be safe.
This still did not work lol. Man I am getting kinda scared that I a running out of options. I feel like it is just something I won't be able to fix.
@Minegamer612 This issue shouldn't be unfixable, especially since you're able to play the first time in a clean user folder. Try playing in a new Windows user account. Make it an admin account, and don't sync it with OneDrive or bring over any settings from your current one. You'll be able to login to your existing Origin account and run Sims 4 without downloading anything. Don't move over your saves or other content yet; just see whether you can keep playing in that account without constantly refreshing the user folder.
Could I run it in a virtual machine?
@Minegamer612 Yes, you could, but performance would be somewhere between bad and unbearable. Most VMs don't have direct (or "direct") access to hardware or their own graphics drivers, so the game would be rendered in software mode only. To give you an idea, I tried this once to see what would happen, and I averaged about one frame per second.
Yea I knew that was going to happen xd. If I just can't stand it I will try it on another account. Nvm. I will just create another account. I thought it was going to be harder but it wasn't
So I think my game is fixed! So I had to different sims 4 folders in my documents. So I deleted the one I don't need ad my game is loading fine now!
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