Hello people ! i have a issueand have spent about 8 hours on it now , i have installed sims 3, world adventures, ambitions, fast lane stuff, and late night, i updated the base sims 3 game to 1.22.9, and when i do i get this error message when i try to launch the game : "unable to start game service initialization failed (0x175dcbb)"
pls help i want to play sims soooo badly love the genre.

help would be GREATLY appriciated

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Updated to 1.22 from what version? Why patch to 1.22? The current version is 1.33.

That error usually means your Registry is messed up during installation, patching and/or uninstallation. You can use CCleaner to clean things up to see if that helps. If not, you need to do a clean, full uninstall. Follow the Uninstall FAQ.

And then make sure to patch as shown in these guides:

1. Game Help:Issues with 1.3x Superpatcher^wiki
2. Q&A for "Issues with 1.3x Superpatcher" wiki FAQ