Total Existence Failure

[colluseum]

Whenever I start to play the Sims and click the play button on the launcher, it looks like it's going to start up (the screen turns black), but then the game immediately stops working and goes back to the desktop. I'm completely mystified about why this is. Is anyone having a similar problem, and is there any way to fix it?

[gerrr00]

That happens to me sometimes too.  But the Sims is still running, I just have to click on it in the task bar.  The Sims re-opens and works fine.

[wildredchild]

This same thing happens to me when my computer has not been shut down and restarted occasionally.  My suggestion is to close down your computer and restart it, then restart your game and see if this suggestion helped at all.

[colluseum]

Thanks for the suggestions. Not being a computer person, I unfortunately have no idea what the task bar is. Could someone enlighten me?

Wildredchild- I have restarted the game many times already, but it didn't work. Thanks for the help though!

[AriaGirl77]

I think she means shut down your computer, and restart it.  Not the game. 

[Esther1981]

My game would do something similar. It would load the entire way but when I would unpause it too play, it would crash to desktop. I finally called EA and my graphics card is bad. So I can't play until I get a new one. Also the taskbar is the little bar at the bottom of your screen that has all the tabs open. I'll try to take a pic of it for you.

[colluseum]

I think she means shut down your computer, and restart it.  Not the game. 

Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say computer.

My game would do something similar. It would load the entire way but when I would unpause it too play, it would crash to desktop. I finally called EA and my graphics card is bad. So I can't play until I get a new one. Also the taskbar is the little bar at the bottom of your screen that has all the tabs open. I'll try to take a pic of it for you.

When I try to load it, though, the game just shuts down. It's off the task bar completely.

[Esther1981]

When I try to load it, though, the game just shuts down. It's off the task bar completely.

Yea that sounds like what mine was doing. The guy at EA said the graphic card I have actually steals RAM from other things and when it gets so bad that the RAM is under what the game needs, it just won't play. He told me the only solution is to get a new graphics card.