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4 years ago
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The Sims Medieval not launching

I bought the Sims Medieval two days ago. While the game and the P&N DLC seem to install fine, neither will launch. I don't get a screen, error, or anything. I get the spinning loading icon, and then ...
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    Calachu
    4 years ago

    After some more digging I found that both Sims Medieval and The Sims 3 won’t run on your PC if you have a 12th gen or newer CPU. 

    In order to fix this issue you need to install power shell by windows. You will need to run a code before launching the sims medieval:


    echo "Launch Sims Medieval..."

    do{
    $TSM = Get-Process TSM, SMLauncher, SimsMedievalLauncher -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
    }until($TSM)

    $Affinity=$TSM.ProcessorAffinity

    $TSM.ProcessorAffinity=1

    Start-Sleep -s 5

    $TSM.ProcessorAffinity=$Affinity

    After entering this code your game should run normally. To my understanding you need to run it before each launch. But it works!!

    i got this code from @Plasma_Ball1 

    The original code for the sims 3 is by @Miaa245  which can be found on this forum:

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11143556#M249004 

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