June 2014
i own the sims games for pc i have the actual cd in had but i havent played in a while and went to play the sims 3 ambitions game the other night and the screen went black and then sent me back to the desktop and gave me this error message. service instialization failed (0x039e8474) why cant i play??? please hellp:catsad:
June 2014
see if the FAQ can assist you http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Service-initialization-failed/m-p/65394/highlight/true#M3476