X64l Launch Date

[Stefanie Mordaunt]

Iam having an issue that just started on 09/29/2018 when the previous day I was able to play just fine. The only thing I did differently was I added a lot to my downloads while on the gallery through The Sims 4 website. When I go to launch The Sims 4 (as usual) the game act's like it is going to launch but then it doesn't it just pops up with the Origin app. I tried running the game as an administrator and that did not work. I tried disabling Origin from running in game and that did not work. I looked over my settings and noticed The Sims 4 is set to x64 bit English (Origin is in English too) I double checked to make sure that my windows 10 is x64 bit and confirmed that it is.

I then tried the x32 bit and that worked. I don't think I play on the x32 bit version though since when I looked at the properties of the game in Origin it was set to x64 bit and my PC is x64 bit plus it came up with a message that said if I continue to play in x32 bit mode I may experience issues and I have never seen that message before. I moved The Sims 4 folder to my desktop and renamed it. I then tried to launch The Sims 4 x64 bit again and it still didn't work. I tried to check for updates in Origin and it said my game was up to date. I tried repairing the game through Origin and restarting my computer and I was still unable to launch the game in x64 bit.

I checked to see that I have all of my updates for my video card drivers and PC and confirmed that everything is up to date. I shut down my computer and waited awhile before turning it back on. Tried launching The Sims 4 in x64 bit and still it didn't launch. I double checked to make sure my antivirus was not blocking it and it isn't. I have now uninstalled and reinstalled the game and still it does not launch in x64 bit. I have attached the Dxdiag report that I just ran before posting on here in case it would be helpful in locating my issue. Oh and I do not have any mods or cc. Thank you for taking the time to review and hopefully assist with solving this issue.

Okay, so this issue is pretty strange, I've actually not seen anyone else with this issue, although I'l assume other people have it. If the 32-bit executable opens and runs fine then at least it's not as big an issue as the game just not wanting to work. The only other reason, I can think of, is that the 64-bit executable is missing, but you've said you since reinstalled so it probably isn't that. I had a quick look on the internet to see if anyone else had this issue and I did find one Sims Forum post with some solutions you could try.

The only other solution is just to play in 32-bit mode for the time being, if this is a game issue, let someone know and report the bug. Let me know how you get on with these steps and if they have improved/worked in anyway.

I don't know if the game runs fine in x32 bit as I did not attempt to put my saved copy of The Sims 4 back and try to play. I only know that the x32 bit actually launches the game on a new The Sims 4 folder. I have all the Expansion packs, GP's and SP's and from what I've read this requires the game to play in x64 bit. Of course I am no expert, so please if I am wrong let me know.

I tried launching x64 bit again and it still acts like it is going to work. I see the X, Square and three lines in a little rectangle and white box pop up in the upper left corner of my screen then Origin lets me know I can record and then it goes away and the Origin application pops up. I have also tried pressing play through Origin with the same result.

I ran the Microsoft memory diagnostic tool and it stated there was no problems detected. Thank you for thinking of this as it did not cross my mind. I tried to launch the game in x64 bit mode again and it is still having the same issue.

I have now removed the second monitor and tried launching x64 bit again and it still acts like it is going to work. I see the X, Square and three lines in a little rectangle and white box pop up in the upper left corner of my screen then Origin lets me know I can record and then it goes away and the Origin application pops up. I have also tried pressing play through Origin with the same result.

I don't know if the game runs fine in x32 bit as I did not attempt to put my saved copy of The Sims 4 back and try to play. I only know that the x32 bit actually launches the game on a new The Sims 4 folder. I have all the Expansion packs, GP's and SP's and from what I've read this requires the game to play in x64 bit. Of course I am no expert, so please if I am wrong let me know. I checked to see if I had any updates and it says my computer is up to date. I also made sure that my graphics card was up to date and working properly and it is. I tried launching x64 bit again and it still acts like it is going to work. I see the X, Square and three lines in a little rectangle and white box pop up in the upper left corner of my screen then Origin lets me know I can record and then it goes away and the Origin application pops up. I have also tried pressing play through Origin with the same result.

I attached a snip of my Origin settings and the Origin properties details. In Origin settings it shows my language as English and when I go to select a different option for English it just shows the one which is simply English (it doesn't specify Canada, UK or US) However in my Origin properties details it specifies Origin (Canada) and The Sims 4 properties details specifies English (United States) which I have also attached a snip of. I live in the US. I think I will attempt to uninstall origin and reinstall it and see if that fixes my issue.

I uninstalled and reinstalled Origin and sadly I am still having the same issue. The properties details still show the same information as before so I have a feeling that is not the problem. Besides I can run the x32 bit so I guess it was just wishful thinking on my part.

With 64-bit mode and the new paging mode, it supports vastly larger amounts of virtual memory and physical memory than was possible on its 32-bit predecessors, allowing programs to store larger amounts of data in memory. x86-64 also expands general-purpose registers to 64-bit, and expands the number of them from 8 (some of which had limited or fixed functionality, e.g. for stack management) to 16 (fully general), and provides numerous other enhancements. Floating-point arithmetic is supported via mandatory SSE2-like instructions, and x87/MMX style registers are generally not used (but still available even in 64-bit mode); instead, a set of 16 vector registers, 128 bits each, is used. (Each register can store one or two double-precision numbers or one to four single-precision numbers, or various integer formats.) In 64-bit mode, instructions are modified to support 64-bit operands and 64-bit addressing mode.

The compatibility mode defined in the architecture allows 16-bit and 32-bit user applications to run unmodified, coexisting with 64-bit applications if the 64-bit operating system supports them.[11][note 2] As the full x86 16-bit and 32-bit instruction sets remain implemented in hardware without any intervening emulation, these older executables can run with little or no performance penalty,[13] while newer or modified applications can take advantage of new features of the processor design to achieve performance improvements. Also, a processor supporting x86-64 still powers on in real mode for full backward compatibility with the 8086, as x86 processors supporting protected mode have done since the 80286.

The original specification, created by AMD and released in 2000, has been implemented by AMD, Intel, and VIA. The AMD K8 microarchitecture, in the Opteron and Athlon 64 processors, was the first to implement it. This was the first significant addition to the x86 architecture designed by a company other than Intel. Intel was forced to follow suit and introduced a modified NetBurst family which was software-compatible with AMD's specification. VIA Technologies introduced x86-64 in their VIA Isaiah architecture, with the VIA Nano.

The x86-64 architecture was quickly adopted for desktop and laptop personal computers and servers which were commonly configured for 16 GiB (gibibytes) of memory or more. It has effectively replaced the discontinued Intel Itanium architecture (formerly IA-64), which was originally intended to replace the x86 architecture. x86-64 and Itanium are not compatible on the native instruction set level, and operating systems and applications compiled for one architecture cannot be run on the other natively.

The primary defining characteristic of AMD64 is the availability of 64-bit general-purpose processor registers (for example, .mw-parser-output .monospacedfont-family:monospace,monospacerax), 64-bit integer arithmetic and logical operations, and 64-bit virtual addresses.[16] The designers took the opportunity to make other improvements as well.

This feature eases later scalability to true 64-bit addressing. Many operating systems (including, but not limited to, the Windows NT family) take the higher-addressed half of the address space (named kernel space) for themselves and leave the lower-addressed half (user space) for application code, user mode stacks, heaps, and other data regions.[23] The "canonical address" design ensures that every AMD64 compliant implementation has, in effect, two memory halves: the lower half starts at 00000000'00000000 and "grows upwards" as more virtual address bits become available, while the higher half is "docked" to the top of the address space and grows downwards. Also, enforcing the "canonical form" of addresses by checking the unused address bits prevents their use by the operating system in tagged pointers as flags, privilege markers, etc., as such use could become problematic when the architecture is extended to implement more virtual address bits.

The first versions of Windows for x64 did not even use the full 256 TiB; they were restricted to just 8 TiB of user space and 8 TiB of kernel space.[23] Windows did not support the entire 48-bit address space until Windows 8.1, which was released in October 2013.[23]

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