Cant start game

[Etham]

Hi, i recently bought a new pc and moved all the files, steam detected it/verfied which was fine but after the launcher it kind of crash or something. I installed dx9 hoping that would help, On the old pc it was working fine, new pc specs: (Intel Core i7-12700KF/1TB SSD/32GB RAM/GeForce RTX 3080/Windows 11)

[puzzlezaddict]

The issue is your 12th-gen Intel processor; Sims 3 doesn't start correctly on these models. The workaround is to limit the game to one CPU core as it's loading. Please see this post for various ways to do so:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11528168#M250997

Keep in mind that if you use the patch made by Lazy Duchess but verify the game files through Steam at some point afterwards, the effects of the patch will have been undone, so you'd then need to run it again.

[[Eradication Squad] Deathdiver]

Originally posted by puzzlezaddict:

The issue is your 12th-gen Intel processor; Sims 3 doesn't start correctly on these models. The workaround is to limit the game to one CPU core as it's loading. Please see this post for various ways to do so:

https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues-PC/Sims-3-won-t-open-Alder-Lake-Intel-12th-gen-CPU/m-p/11528168#M250997

Keep in mind that if you use the patch made by Lazy Duchess but verify the game files through Steam at some point afterwards, the effects of the patch will have been undone, so you'd then need to run it again.

Even with the alder lake patch, your game will crash. So take that with a grain of salt.

[Phase_verocity]

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "The Sims 3" /High /affinity 1 "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"

i used the above command in a shortcut to get it to start. Once you are in the game you can ctrl alt del and set processor affinity to use all cores.

https://www.windowsdigitals.com/how-to-set-process-cpu-affinity-priority-permanently-in-windows-10/

[Tomato]

Originally posted by Etham:

Hi, i recently bought a new pc and moved all the files, steam detected it/verfied which was fine but after the launcher it kind of crash or something. I installed dx9 hoping that would help, On the old pc it was working fine, new pc specs: (Intel Core i7-12700KF/1TB SSD/32GB RAM/GeForce RTX 3080/Windows 11)

https://youtu.be/MpUUZUJNGXM?t=310 This video really helped me

[Phase_verocity]

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "The Sims 3" /High /affinity 1 "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"

i used the above command in a shortcut to get it to start. Once you are in the game you can ctrl alt del and set processor affinity to use all cores.

https://www.windowsdigitals.com/how-to-set-process-cpu-affinity-priority-permanently-in-windows-10/

If you are feeling game you can also use a program called WinAFC64. https://sourceforge.net/projects/affinitychanger/

I made up a batch file that goes like this.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "The Sims 3" /High /affinity 1 "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"
F:\Utilities\WinAFC64-0.9.2\WinAFC64.exe -nodetect -once -startdelay=2 sims3.txt

The sims3.txt has only this written in it.

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\ts3w.exe := ALL [force=yes, priority=Unchanged]

off course you would have to change the directories to where you installed winafc and the sims.

[Phase_verocity]

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "The Sims 3" /High /affinity 1 "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"

i used the above command in a shortcut to get it to start. Once you are in the game you can ctrl alt del and set processor affinity to use all cores.

https://www.windowsdigitals.com/how-to-set-process-cpu-affinity-priority-permanently-in-windows-10/

If you are feeling game you can also use a program called WinAFC64. https://sourceforge.net/projects/affinitychanger/

I made up a batch file that goes like this.

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c start "The Sims 3" /High /affinity 1 "D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3.exe"
F:\Utilities\WinAFC64-0.9.2\WinAFC64.exe -nodetect -once -startdelay=2 sims3.txt

The sims3.txt has only this written in it.

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\ts3w.exe := ALL [force=yes, priority=Unchanged]

off course you would have to change the directories to where you installed winafc and the sims.

you will also need to create a shortcut to the batch file and then set it run it as administrator.

[Etham]

Thanks for all the answers, The alder lake patch mentioned seems to work fine.