The Sims™ 3

The Sims™ 3

SavageBear 23. juli 2023 kl. 21.55
"Serious error has occurred while loading (name).world..."
I've tried everything but can't get the game to load.

- I verified the integrity of game files
- I uninstalled and reinstalled the game
- Launcher works fine
- I adjusted nvidia control panel for Sims 3 to force on v-sync and triple buffering (mostly to keep my fan from screaming)
- And I limited my FPS to 58 in the same manner, for the same reason.
- I set the launcher affinity to 1
- I have no custom content
- I have no saves

The game just won't load any .world files. When I pick a town, any town, it begins to load and quickly jumps to a black screen with an error message and boots me back to the select a town screen.

I've been all over these forums and the internet and it seems hopeless. It's pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ how consistently Microsoft manages to shoot itself in the foot.
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Bowe 25. juli 2023 kl. 9.10 
Having the same problem, game crashes on the loading screen after I select the town. Tried all this as well but still no luck.
klavdzia 18. des. kl. 2.48 
I tried to play TS3 on a new laptop with win11 system and had this exact problem. Is there any solution already? :(
HiFive 19. des. kl. 4.56 
Maybe something in this guide can help?
https://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=279488894
XAWAkun 19. des. kl. 10.09 
I was having the same problem. I uninstalled the game and now I can't re-download it.
HiFive 19. des. kl. 21.45 
Opprinnelig skrevet av XAWAkun:
I was having the same problem. I uninstalled the game and now I can't re-download it.
When DLC from Steam is uninstalled for this game, registries are left behind that need to be cleaned up. I am only guessing, but that might be why you are having trouble reinstalling the game. However, I can say that when I accidentally uninstalled all of my Steam content a year or so ago, I did not have any trouble reinstalling this game.
XAWAkun 20. des. kl. 11.10 
Opprinnelig skrevet av HiFive:
Opprinnelig skrevet av XAWAkun:
I was having the same problem. I uninstalled the game and now I can't re-download it.
When DLC from Steam is uninstalled for this game, registries are left behind that need to be cleaned up. I am only guessing, but that might be why you are having trouble reinstalling the game. However, I can say that when I accidentally uninstalled all of my Steam content a year or so ago, I did not have any trouble reinstalling this game.

I was actually able to reinstall but now I'm back to the original issue where I can't load any of the worlds.
I have the exact same problem too. Just installed the game but cant play it at all since whenever I try to load Sunset Valley I get the error message described.
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