I can't run The Sims
I recently bought The Sims Birthday Bundle, and when I press the play button for The Sims the game starts for a second before it closes and the EA app opens up again. Though The Sims 2 is running perfectly fine.
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I came here for the same reason and just solved the problem with instructions from this post: Can't play sims 1 at all, won't even start. | EA Forums - 11857522
I hope this helps you too :)
majyay If you still can't play, please try reinstalling your 2015 and newer VC++ runtimes. Open Windows Settings > Apps, scroll down to the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables, and uninstall everything from 2015 and newer. Don't touch the older versions.
Download the x86 and x64 versions (not the ARM version) of the 2022 runtimes from Microsoft:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=msvc-170
Install the runtimes, restart your computer, and try to play.
If that doesn't help, please provide the information requested in the accepted solution of the master Sims 1 won't launch thread:
The Sims 1 Crashes on Launch | EA Forums - 11850467
Since this is a duplicate, I'll lock it here.
