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Software => Computer games => Topic started by: solace1369 on May 04, 2007, 12:32:39 AM

Title: The Sims - It worked yesterday and won't today... lol
Post by: solace1369 on May 04, 2007, 12:32:39 AM

I was literaly playing the sims yesterday and to day it won't even load.
All it does is give an error report message.

"The Sims has encountered a problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the inconvenience."

>>details>>
Error signature
AppName: sims.exe    AppVer: 1.0.0.0    ModName: sims.exe
ModVer: 1.0.0.0    Offset: 0000986f

I have uninstalled and removed all regristry keys by hand before reinstalling.
I have tried other optical drives.
I have used the various flags recomended in various other posts.
I have done spyware, adware and antivirus.
I have done a regclean.
I have run scandisk.

The part that boggles my mind is the fact that it worked fine for the last 3 or 4 days and then stopped without any changes to the system.

any ideas?

Title: Re: The Sims - It worked yesterday and won't today... lol
Post by: Raptor on May 04, 2007, 04:22:50 AM

EA Games tend to be very dodgy.

Have you tried looking through the EA help-database? I believe there is a Sims uninstaller tool available that might help you.

If it doesn't, contact EA technical support and don't forget to patch the game before running it.