July 2015
I went to the launcher to start my game. I hit the play button, I've had no problems with it until now. if hit play,it would give me a black screen with a loading symbol in the middle of my screen. Once I hit the Windows button, it gives me a notification saying "unable to start game, Service initialization failed (0x065d0274)
July 2015
@HockeySimmer17 take a look here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Service-initialization-failed/td-p/65394
Let me know if the suggestions help