My sims 3 won’t play after lau [ Edited ]

[delicious-simmer]

So I have windows 11 and I downloaded the sims 3 again and the launcher will pop up but when I press play nothing happens at all. I don’t have any mods in my game. And I’ve repaired it. My sims 4 game runs fine so I don’t know what wrong with the sims 3 game.

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@delicious-simmer  You don't have a 12th-gen Intel processor, but the errors in your dxdiag are the same as the one that people with those processors have.  So their solution may work for you as well.  Specifically, try limiting the game to one CPU core while it's loading.  You can use a script that another player created:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11...

Or you can use Process Lasso to put the limit in place.  With Process Lasso, you'll want to close it and thereby undo the change once you have a save loaded, for performance reasons; the script linked above is self-limiting.

[puzzlezaddict]

@delicious-simmer  Again, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.

https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

And let me know whether Sims 3 has ever run on this computer.

[delicious-simmer]

I got a new laptop, just updated it to windows 11 and for some reason now my Sims 3 game won't open after the I click play on the launcher. Like nothing shows up except the origin page. I reset my laptop and I downloaded and ran the DirectX thing and still nothing. Can anyone please help?!

[delicious-simmer]

My sims 3 game has never run on my current computer. 

[puzzlezaddict · Accepted solution]

@delicious-simmer  You don't have a 12th-gen Intel processor, but the errors in your dxdiag are the same as the one that people with those processors have.  So their solution may work for you as well.  Specifically, try limiting the game to one CPU core while it's loading.  You can use a script that another player created:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11...

Or you can use Process Lasso to put the limit in place.  With Process Lasso, you'll want to close it and thereby undo the change once you have a save loaded, for performance reasons; the script linked above is self-limiting.