Is it possible to play Sims medieval on Steam - or any other way!
Is it possible to play Sims Medieval on Steam? Or any other way for that matter - I didn't buy it when it came out (had to choose between that and the latest sims EP/stuff packs) but I now have more ...
One thing to keep in mind is that both Sims Medieval and Sims 3 were made for older graphics cards and CPUs. Thus, the game gets confused and does not load if it detects a graphics card not in its database. I haven't been able to launch Sims 3 from the Sims 3 launcher, and so am currently looking for a way to bypass this launcher to load the game directly. There are a couple script fixes out there, one that worked for me, the other that did not. The one that worked was designed to run, just before running the game. With that fix, you can run the launcher, then when the script tells you to, run the game from the launcher.
I also even tried some substitute launchers that were modded to add features (like toggles not included in the original launcher from EA). Unfortunately, those did not work any better than the original launcher. (Hit play game on the launcher app and nothing happens.) Problem is the security features in modern operating systems. I had the same issue trying to install Sims 2 on my Windows 10 computer. On Windows 10, unless you run the first program as admin, it cannot run any other programs. On Windows 11, even if you run the first program as an admin, it may load one program (we'll call this "child" app to trace the links) but the child app cannot run another child app. Somehow, they bypassed this issue on Origin, but not on the EA games app. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So basically, Windows 11 is trying to run EA games app, which runs the launcher, which tries and fails to run Sims 3. (Sims 3 never runs from the launcher - absolutely nothing happens but it thinks the game is running). Unfortunately, this leaves Steam or scripts (that add newer machines to the database manually on a temporary basis) as the only way to play since Steam is functional now that some back-end work was completed to point the Steam app to the EA app instead of the Origin app. Since Steam runs before it loads the EA app and then the launcher, possibly it is already injecting the new data into the old database for Sims 3.
However, if you bought your expansion packs on the EA app instead of in the Steam app, they will not work when you run Sims 3 from the Steam app. And if you try to install both the EA play version of Sims 3 and the Steam version of Sims 3, you will completely confuse your computer since apparently they use the same registry areas for the base game. In short, if you buy your base game on Steam, you have to buy all your DLC from Steam. If you buy your base game on the EA app, you have to buy all your DLC on the EA app.
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