Hi everyone!

I recently upgraded my PC and reinstalled The Sims 3 along with my expansion packs but I'm having trouble getting the game to open after installing super patch.

After installing the expansions, I installed the Alder Lake patch and the super patch. That's when the issues started-the launcher would open, but the game wouldn't start. Running it without the launcher didn't work either. Through testing, I found that the super patch was preventing the game from launching.

I then uninstalled everything and reinstalled just the base game and University (my latest expansion). After applying only the Alder Lake patch, the game launched successfully.

Today I reinstalled the super patch and nothing happens in the game launcher. I tried to open the game outside of the launcher and 'worked' after several minutes to a black screen. Seeing if would eventually do anything it proceed to prevent me to ctrl-alt-delete thus manually forcing me to restart the computer.

What am I missing, and how can I fix this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I assume that you install the disc version of The Sims 3, right? you need to get the 1.67 Super Patch from EA which is 1.7GB in size and follow the instructions

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/t...nd-more/8025766

https://www.nraas.net/community/Super-Patch

edit: added second link

I still havven't loaded Sims 3 on my new work laptop, but found this, which may help you, and me when I get to it...

https://forums.ea.com/discussions/t...gen-cpu/8265525

Read the whole thing. Not sure if you have patch LazyDutchess refers to.

Thank you so much for sharing the link.