Super Weird: Sims 4 Blackscreen and Immediate Crash After Ultimate Fix Update

drugkid wrote:okay. so, i've found a little method that was supposed to fix it. it seemed like it was going to work, but now i'm getting the same two messages every time i try to open it. the infamous "unable to start: initialization error at startup" and "run the program as administrator the first time you start it, make sure origin is not running". i don't have origin installed, and i'm running the programs as administrator. i don't want to reinstall the game because i'm scared to death of losing my save files.

Ageha wrote:
Hi,

You can actually just backup your save file on desktop or somewhere else if you feel the need to re-install the game. Also, the ultimate fix, I'm really hoping you meant the update-only fix and not something else. Concerning the origin error, you can take a look at the download here. Do you happen to have any crash logs or saw any error when it crashed earlier?

drugkid wrote:I got a bunch of different errors and tried a bunch of stuff to fix it, and nothing really worked. So I just reinstalled the game and now I'm getting "Please make sure origin is running".