Unable to start: Initialization error at startup
Yesterday, the game suddenly decided to not load and throw the following error at me:
Unable to start:
Initialization error at startup
[135dec:29f00e76:00000083:b032c32e]
After researching and trying so many solutions:
Reinstalling Origin/Sims 4 on the same drive as the OS (inc. cleaning out the registry after uninstalling)
Updating drivers, MS.NET.
Disabling firewalls/antiviruses (or setting exceptions on Origin, Sims 4, activationUI.exe etc)
Running chkdsk/memory checks to check for faulty hardware (both tests came back negative)
Running the game from offline mode then switching to online mode
NOTHING has worked, and it's getting extremely frustrating. Any ideas/solutions that don't involve a complete reinstallation of Windows?
Okay, none of those were a solution, BUT, I did manage to figure out what was wrong:
It seems as if the registry entries for my Documents etc folders were MIA, so manually adding them to the registry (http://windowsxp.mvps.org/usershellfolders.htm) fixed it and made TS4 finally decide to load! Seems like it was having an issue finding the Documents folder to add files to!
Thank you for the help and happy simming! 🙂
