Sims Medieval and Windows 10

I bought it on Steam and redeemed the codes for both base game and DLC. I looked for updates and then played it just fine on Windows 10. Mods work just fine too. No crashing. Make sure its up to date, older version of the game I think is incompatible with Windows 10 or something.

I had trouble playing my game on my laptop and called EA and they helped me get it working. I bought the game when it came out and then got into 3, at that time I was running 7 on a desktop, then moved to a win 8 on my laptop, once EA fixed a problem on their side it ran fine. Now running 10 and all the games.

I was having trouble running it on Win 10, too. I went into Origin and put in my product code and was able to convert them to a digital download. They run perfectly.

"loubyloulou;14682366" wrote:

"mikeslove;14675114" wrote:
I was having trouble running it on Win 10, too. I went into Origin and put in my product code and was able to convert them to a digital download. They run perfectly.

@mikeslove - how did you go about doing this, if you don't mind my asking? I too cannot run TSM on my new Windows 10 PC and would dearly love to be able to do so.

Go into Origin and under the Origin menu at the top, click on "Redeem Product Code". You enter the code from your physical copy there and it will turn it into a digital copy. It takes forever to download but the game runs perfectly.

"JuliaStein86;14746650" wrote:
I have installed Windows 10 and want to continue playing Sims Medieval and don't know yet is ti possible?

If you already have a disk version of TSM that's not installed, you can regsiter the game on the Sims 3 website (with the registration code that came with your disk) and then download the digital version via Origin.

I just tried to register my physical copy via Origin (which doesn't work, but the registration page provided the link to the correct website just fine, so no complaint from me). But after registrating the site gave my a scare by saying "You have registered your Sims 3 game, accompanied by a picture of the Sims 3 basegame (which I already had registered)! Reloading Origin then revealed that Sims Medieval was registered correctly and it is now in the process of downloading. Phew.

"PaprikaPaula;c-16032253" wrote:
Hey guys. =)
I'm playing TSM on Windows 10 on my laptop. And now I've got a problem. When I play the game and try to minimize the game, the whole computer freezes and I can't do anything. No Task Manager or anything.

Anybody able to help?

You might have to set the resolution of TSM to the default resolution for the game, to keep it from freezing up like that in Windows 10. 1024x768

@SimLibby what graphics card do you have? TS3 has no fps limiter. If you have a good graphics card you need to use an fps limiter. @igazor can give you instructions depending on if you have Nvidia or Amd . What patch are you on for TS3? 1.67 or 1.69?

Same rules may apply to Medieval but I'm not sure. Maybe igazor knows

An unrecognized graphics card on these games doesn't mean that it isn't being detected and used. It means that the game doesn't know which default profile to assign to the card and so gives it a generic one. Sometimes this makes a small difference in the game's performance, sometimes none at all that the player can tell. In a small number of cases, players do see a definite improvement after editing their sgr files to account for the card and its default profile properly.

An undetected graphics card would prevent the game from starting up and display a Device 0 or some such error. That, of course, is different.

My sense is that if Medieval works and seems to be performing okay as is, it's probably not worth worrying about. But yes, most definitely on capping those fps rates.

"SimLibby;c-16471757" wrote:
Hi @phoebebebe13

It's a small world ;)

I got an NVIDIA Geforce GTX 750 Ti and already changed the fps limit in the conf. settings of NVIDIA (right clicking the desktop). I applied it to TS3W.exe and tsm.exe (I even applied it to the launchers) and set the vertical synchronization to adaptive.

I can see how this works for TS3 since I have changed certain files (I followed the instructions from that YouTube film) so the game recognizes my card. But Medieval doesn't recognizes my card and therefore is not using it, I think/assume, so any fps settings can't be applied in relation to the game/card.

Oops, our posts just crossed each other. Unless you have a setup specifically with dual graphics (do you also have an Intel integrated graphics chip?), this is actually impossible. If you only have one graphics card, as most of us on desktops do for example, the game has to use it formally recognized or not, or else there would be no graphics at all -- it won't run that way.