December 2021
December 2021 - last edited January 2022
Okay, I tried making a PowerShell script for this. Never made one before but hopefully it helps someone. This should allow you to play Sims 3 on an Alder Lake CPU.
You have to copy this to a text file and save it as a .ps1 file. Then you right-click and run with PowerShell. All you have to do is run the script before you open the Sims 3.
echo "Launch Sims 3..." do{ $TS3 = Get-Process TS3, TS3W -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue }until($TS3) $Affinity=$TS3.ProcessorAffinity $TS3.ProcessorAffinity=1 Start-Sleep -s 5 $TS3.ProcessorAffinity=$Affinity
BTW, you will also need to run this before installing CC through the Sims 3 Launcher.
December 2021 - last edited December 2021
@Miaa245Wow you are amazing. Works perfectly. If anyone else tries this note that you will have to change Get-Process TS3 to Get-Process TS3W if perhaps certain xPacs are installed. No longer needed, thanks mia!
Also just for what it's worth, I reinstalled Windows 10 and was still getting the same INT DIVIDE BY ZERO error, until using this script to limit the initial 5 seconds of launching the game to 1 core.
Thank you so much.
December 2021
@Miaa245 Thanks so much for the info and the script. As @Makanar56 mentions, some players will need to use TS3W rather than TS3, specifically any player who has a Steam install or a disc install not controlled by Origin. Those players are on patch 1.67; Origin installs are patch 1.69.
December 2021 - last edited December 2021
@Makanar56I'm so glad it helped!! :D
Thank you for telling me about that, I (hopefully?) fixed it.
December 2021
Hi all, I just bought the sims 3 for christmas and I have never been able to open it at all. I am not the most tech savy, but if someone could dumb down the process that other people used to get around this glitch I would be very grateful. I'm on a 2 year old acer nitro 5. (I have been communicating with the help team about this but their response was basically tough luck and no we won't give you a refund.)
December 2021
@Reekyteek Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
By the way, you don't have the same issue as the one in this thread: this only concerns very new desktop processors, at least at the moment. Once I have an idea of what your issue is, I'll move your post to the appropriate thread or create a new one for you.
December 2021
December 2021 - last edited December 2021
@gracieandhollyLook a few post above, Miaa found a workaround You can either use process lasso and limit the game to 1 core, launch it, then switch back to the full cores once the game started, or use her/his script (probably the easiest solution until ea fixes the issue).
December 2021