March 2021
Yesterday I found out I could contact EA themselves.
This is their reply:
EA Desktop is a new client that basically does the same thing as Origin.
Before installing EA desktop, please make sure that everything related to Origin/The Sims is uninstalled.
Be sure to uninstall Origin manually/the hard way before installing EA Desktop: http://bit.ly/ManualOriginUninstall….
Next, to be extra sure nothing interferes with your game, create a new Windows account: https://bit.ly/CreateWindowsAccountW10…
Do a clean boot: http://bit.ly/Clean_Boot.
Once all that is done, please install EA Desktop from here: https://ea.com/ea-desktop-beta.
As you can see here, the client is still in open beta, so support for it is limited, but hopefully it'll do the trick for you.
I did not do the clean boot and extra local user account. I'm done with EA.
Games should play without problems, the problems that I have occured since their november 2020 update. So I bet I'm not the only one, so maybe EA will solve that in the future.
I'l try again in a year or so, or maybe if their new EA Desktop app is no longer a beta version.
I don't like beta prgrams on my computers, you never know what other problems they cause.
March 2021
March 2021
March 2021 - last edited March 2021
Psychotps, thanks, but I'm NOT running malwarebytes in real time, I only use it to scan my computer every now and then, so running mcafee only.