After selecting town in Sims 3, it never gets past the loading screen

Hi,

I am new to posting on here. My problem is that I have downloaded the latest sims university as well as other expansions. I followed your installation steps and used the ultimate fix correctly. They have always worked for me before. I finally got them all installed, it took me three days. Now though, everything is fine until I select my town. It takes more than an hour to load and goes no further. There is a "find ...." game on the loading screen that changes and the picture changes so I figured it was still running. But after three hours of waiting it just went no further. It started flashing to a still of a sims road and then back to the loading screen. Any help at all would really be appreciated.

Thank you Carlos,

I won't email again. It was the same problem. How do I remove the mods please? I lost hope and uninstalled all the games. I'm now re-installing. I'll try this when they are through. Where do I find the mods?

Well thanks again for responding to me. I didn't know uninstall may have made it worse.    

Now I know    

I did the installation myself. It is the first time I am downloading it on this computer and I never got to play it because of the error I was having. So I knew it shouldn't be a saved files or CC error. I will still try what you said. 

Still re-installing. I figured I might as well add island paradise and into the future. That is giving trouble to update so doing step 2 now......blah blah blah.

 Will let you know if it works this time around.


//EDIT

ok Carlos,

There was no file of either of those names in my documents folder. But like I said with a new game I didn't think it would have any saved or extra installed content. Now I have finished installing, according to the directions. I am getting a message saying " Service initialization failed (0x065d0274)" 

Any suggestions?

The only difference in what I did like I said was that I installed into the future and Island paradise, both from games4theworld, following the instructions.


//EDIT

I fixed the service initialization problem, it seems. The game is back to the first problem. I select a town. It loads to 99% then stops. Please help.



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- Carlos

No, same problem.

Now I am getting this error.
"Waring: Unrecognised Video Card - Your video card was not found in our database. Your graphics settings have been set as high as possible, but you may wish to reduce them if you are experiencing poor performance." 


The device config tells me this about my graphics card.



=== Graphics device info ===

Number:          0

Name (driver):   Microsoft Basic Render Driver

Name (database): Microsoft Basic Render Driver [Found: 0, Matched: 0]

Vendor:          

Chipset:         Vendor: 1414, Device: 008c, Board: 00000000, Chipset: 0000

Driver:          d3d10warp.dll, Version: 6.2.9200.16795, GUID: D7B71AF4-43CC-11CF-2B22-F003ADC2CB35

Driver version:  16795

Monitor:         \\.\DISPLAY1

Texture memory:  256MB

Vertex program:  3.0

Pixel program:   3.0

Hardware TnL:    1



I know this means that the game doesn't recognise it, maybe because it's too old, but I can't seem to find any information that would tell me what I need to do. 



DirectX Diagnostic tool said, and I hope this helps.... 



Name:             Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

Manufacturer: (Standard display types)

Chip Type:      ATI ATOMBIOS

DAC Type:      (c) 1988-2005, ATI Technologies

Device Type:  Display-Only Display Device

Approx. Total Memory: 256 MB

Current Display Mode: 1600 x 1200 (32 bit) (64Hz)

Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor



Nothing sounds impressive at all. I just need to know if it will be possible at all to play the game on this computer, and if so what I would have to do.

Now I am at my wits end. It said all my software was up to date when I tried to update the drivers. And "Canyourunit" said that I have way more than the required for sims 3 into the future. It still WON'T WORK!!! 

Thank you for your help Carlos.   If you think of anything else let me know and I'll try it. According to everything we've tried it should be freaking working. 

I don't think the system is too old. It is a computer sorta "fixed up" by my brother who is a techy and a WOW gamer himself. and he used it to play his WOW before he gave it to me. oh well. 

Hope you can think of something.


Carlos,

I just tried deleting/uninstalling sims 3 Pets and it seems to be working. The town loaded though there is a terrible lag now. It takes a good three seconds for a command to be recognized, the cursor to change etc. Still haven't started actually playing yet but at least the town came up and I can enter "create a sim". Trying to fix that lag now.