Not compatible with Windows 11

[Buckshot]

Title explains my post

[Aturchomicz]

Another great reason to not update lol

[Buzztrax]

windows 11 is

[Ashrala]

Originally posted by Aturchomicz:

Another great reason to not update lol

Exactly. It's like, if a new OS is not compatible with my games, why should I bother upgrading either? Personally I'm one of those users that hates anything after Windows 7, (and no one can change my mind.) I had to go through days of personalizing my current Windows 10 OS (turning off ♥♥♥♥, blocking ♥♥♥♥, third party program ♥♥♥♥) just to act and feel like windows 7 again without breaking anything. If I had the skills I'd be developing a much better OS then Microsoft does these days......

[Chris]

I play it on windows 11 all the time, and ive had more incompatible games on windows 10 than 11

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by Chris:

I play it on windows 11 all the time, and ive had more incompatible games on windows 10 than 11

Thats odd. It does load up but the settings are all messed up and I cant change those settings. In Windows 11, it puts my sims 3 game at the lowest resolution and I cant change that.

[Doom Sayer]

Originally posted by Buckshot:

Originally posted by Chris:

I play it on windows 11 all the time, and ive had more incompatible games on windows 10 than 11

Thats odd. It does load up but the settings are all messed up and I cant change those settings. In Windows 11, it puts my sims 3 game at the lowest resolution and I cant change that.

Did you upgrade or reinstall? Upgrade can sometimes be fine but if a game is designed weirdly it can break stuff.

[Haruspex]

Running Sims 3 on Windows 11 here. There's no problem.

[macca]

This was also an issue for me, running win11 and 12th gen intel processor, but this thread helped me:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/td-p/11057820/page/5

there is a powershell script that binds the initial process to a single thread, then after 5 seconds returns it back to normal processor affinity, very simple but worked for me.

[4K_240hz_MLED]

Originally posted by Chris:

I play it on windows 11 all the time, and ive had more incompatible games on windows 10 than 11

some people have the same experience as you, others have the opposite

[nw152]

I finally got mine to work after having the exact same problem!!!! Right click on your sims 3 icon/shortcut and go to "open file location". Find the Sims3Launcher application (it should have the logo next to it) and right click it. Go to "Properties". Click the "Compatibility" tab. Check the box that says "Run this program in Compatibility mode for" and then choose the highest windows option in the drop down. Mine was Windows 8. Hit apply and ok and close out of the settings and hopefully it will work for you too!!!!!!!!!! After setting the graphics options in the game it looks gorgeous and runs perfectly on my new PC.

I tried 4 or 5 Different things and this is the ONLY thing That worked for me! The original post isn't mine, full credit to Reddit user ScrappyWriter.