Unable to start game- Service Initialization failed (0x02957b48).[SOLVED]

Having a little bit of a problem. I installed the game and all the expansion and stuff packs up to university life, I followed all the instructions from the ultimate fix, but when i start the game, the screen goes black, tries loading then crashes and send me a message saying "Unable to start game Service Initialization failed (0x02957b48). I've uninstalled the games and re-installed 3 times thus far, i even followed the instructions where i can stop the game from crashing by putting it in the DEP. Could you please help me. I am at a complete lose right now.

Did you have any sims games installed before you installed the games4theworld torrents? Did you follow the "how to install the sims 3 correctly" guide?

Juice Box Monstah wrote:Did you have any sims games installed before you installed the games4theworld torrents? Did you follow the "how to install the sims 3 correctly" guide?

Yes i did have the blackbox version but i uninstalled everything and i reinstalled the "how to install sims 3 correctly" even downloaded the videos just to make sure that i'm on the right track. but i dont have ea origin. i had it but when i saw it was giving me the issue i deleted origin.

Okay I know how to fix your problem! Have you ever used a program called TeamViewer before?

Juice Box Monstah wrote:Okay I know how to fix your problem! Have you ever used a program called TeamViewer before?

No but if it helps i'm gladly willing to use it :-)

Okay, basically what is going to happen is I will be able to fix the problem for you while you just sit back and watch. Go ahead and go to http://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx and click the big green button that says "Download free for private use".

When you install it, you will have options, choose "personal/non-commercial", accept and agree to the license, and chose "no (default)" when that pops up. once it installs completely, it will give you a user id, and a password, send both of those to me through a private message on here, (do not post the username and id in a reply to this thread) and then I will connect to you and help you. But once you send me the pm, don't touch anything. Okay? :] Don't worry we will have your game working in no time!

Dang I was for sure it was the regedit thing, I guess I should have asked first. Lol. Sorry about that! I still think it could be registry related, those blackbox downloads are annoying to get rid of. If you look at the guide by clicking here it might help you.

Juice Box Monstah wrote:Dang I was for sure it was the regedit thing, I guess I should have asked first. Lol. Sorry about that! I still think it could be registry related, those blackbox downloads are annoying to get rid of. If you look at the guide by clicking here it might help you.

Thank you so much for the help... if you have any other suggestions if this one doesnt helpu'll inform me, going too add you as a friend

You're very welcome! Let me know if it works -- or doesn't, and I will try to help you the best I can! Good luck!

Juice Box Monstah wrote:You're very welcome! Let me know if it works -- or doesn't, and I will try to help you the best I can! Good luck!

Trying to understand the instructions given... lolzzz

Juice Box Monstah wrote:You're very welcome! Let me know if it works -- or doesn't, and I will try to help you the best I can! Good luck!

so apparently, i have a red x by 70's, 80's and 90's stuff. Trying to delete all values, but nothing is happening lolzzz... doesnt this game want me to have it

or i might just have to uninstall it manually and see what happens from there

Make sure after you uninstall it you delete it out of your registry with regedit, too. :] Good luck! Hope this works for you! :]

Juice Box Monstah wrote:Make sure after you uninstall it you delete it out of your registry with regedit, too. :] Good luck! Hope this works for you! :]

Thank you... i think i might just uninstall everything n do them over one last time... lolzzz.... slowly... lolzzzz... if it does work, well i'll have to just plau with the base game only

//EDIT

I have solve the problem :-) Like you said as i had backbox, it's a
stress to get rid of, so what i did was remove every thing in reference
to ea and sims from regedit, restarted my laptop, then i install every
thing again so now i'm not getting the failed error no more but it's
seems to be crashing,. It tries loading then when i see it takes to long
i open task manager and sims3 sen amessage saying it has stopped
working, going to try putting it in DEP ti see if that helps

//EDIT

okay putting it in DEP but it didnt work... let me see if i can get any
threadtelling me what to do or imight have to post a new thread

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Hello,

Sorry for the late reply!
Unfortunately we were not able to get back to you in time. I'd like to apologize for that.

Do you still need assistance?

that's okay.. everything is working now. pc just needed to be reformatted.