Sims Medieval and Windows 10

Origin has combined both of the packs into one. I found this when "updating" it on Origin and it took a long time to completely download the combined pack. Not sure if you will get that if you only bought the first one, or if it is a freebie, now they have stopped producing new packs.

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?

DVD versions of The Sims Medieval do not work on Windows 8 or 10 (I think it's due to the copy protection used in TSM), you must use the Origin version of The Sims Medieval although be advised that the Origin release includes the Origin sign-in requirement much like The Sims 4 and The Sims 3 1.69.

The game doesn't freeze up on my PC. I run it on resolution 1920 X 1080.

@ PaprikaPaula, I don't know if it'll help or not but change the frame rate to the lowest setting on the game settings.. Also change the graphics setting to lowest.

I run into some trouble installing TS3 on my Windows 10 computer: a notification about not recognizing my graphic cards. So after some searching I found this YouTube film about how to edit certain files so the game would recognize my graphic card. This worked. I also made sure to limit the fps in the conf. settings of my NVIDIA card (another tip I read somewhere).

I already went digital with my Sims Medieval DVD when the game was not running after installing it from DVD. But also with this game I got the notification it was not recognizing my graphic card. Even though I can seem to play it, I'm not that comfortable doing so as long as I haven't address that notification.

So my question is, anyone else had this notification?
Did, and if so how, you resolve this?
Any idea if it's a good idea to apply the YouTube film I just referred to, to the Medieval files?

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.

Oh, OneDrive. If you would spell it without spaces, I would have recognized it. :p Yeah, I know about this. I have limited space in my OneDrive so no automatic synchronization. I decide what goes in my OneDrive, not Microsoft ;) and what to back-up and on which device. I have re-directed all My Documents to D, since my SSD has limited space as well.

@SimLibby your very welcome :) Any time you update Nvidia drivers , it resets the sims 3 launcher game settings. It's very annoying.

I seem to have a different problem altogether and I’m not sure if it’s due to Windows 10. I originally bought this game back in 2011 on a disk.

I have Windows 10 and had not played this game in several years. I uploaded the info into Origin a few months ago, started a new game and it played perfectly until I reached the “Castle” achievement, then the game stopped tallying my achievements. I tried repairing the game, uninstalling the game from Origin and reinstalling it and after several hours of play (when I reached the Castle achievement again) I had the same problem AGAIN, I purchased the game and expansion through Origin again and I’m still not accumulating watcher points. I’m stuck at Peermonger and I know I should have moved to the next level at least because I’m tallying my progress on paper now.

This is the third time that I’ve reached this point in my game and cannot proceed. I haven’t found anyone else with a similar problem anywhere online and it’s super frustrating.