3. Install The Sims 4 All in One Portable
3.1. Visual C# Runtime Libraries [Only if you Never Did it on Your Computer]
If you never had The Sims 4 on your computer and you also never installed those libraries, or if you reinstalled Windows, now it's time to do that, so the game can run without showing you an error message complaining that MSVCP120.DLL file wasn't found or anything similar.
Doing it should be pretty straightforward and you just need to run/install all of those six files.
If you get an error message saying you already have it, or that you have a newer version or anything similar, just ignore it, close it, install the others until you're done.
3.2. Option A - Install the Game "Properly"
If you want to install the game properly this is my favorite procedure, and I strongly advise you to use it if you can.
Open your downloaded folder by right clicking the torrent, then Local Files, Open Folder...
Open 2 Program Files
...
Right Click the Folder The Sims 4
, then Copy...
Open the Folder C:\Program Files (or any other you'd prefer to use, if you can't use Program Files), right click on an empty space then Paste...
If you see the dialog below just choose Yes...
Then enable "Do this for all current items" and click on Yes again...
Click on "Replace the files in the destination" when asked by the prompt below...
Enable "Do this for all current items" and click on Continue...
Wait until all files are copied / overwritten (the number of files will be different than the one presented below).
Once you're finished, navigate to The Sims 4\Game\Bin
and make yourself sure that you have at least the files and folders below (sizes and dates may differ). If you're missing any of those, specially TS4_x64.exe
or OrangeEmu64.dll
your game will NOT work and the lack of any of those files is usually caused by your anti virus, which might have removed them because they're modded. To fix it you'll have to open your anti virus history/quarantine and use the appropriate Allow / Restore action to recover your file(s).
Otherwise, all being good, right click TS4_x64.exe
, then Properties...
Open the Compatibility Tab, Click on Change Settings for All Users...
Enable the checkbox "Run this program as an administrator", then OK and OK again.
Right click again on TS4_x64.exe
, then Copy...
Now go to your desktop and Paste your Shortcut...
You did it!!! Your game is ready to Play! Always remember to Open your Task Manager and be sure that Origin.exe
is NOT running in the background and have fun!
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Hello! I've been trying to install the game for hours and everytime I try to run the game a pop up appears which says:
Unable to start
The contents of your user data directory were created by a newer version of The Sims 4 and cannot be loaded. Please update your game via Origin to play.
Please help me!
You have 2 options.
1. Use the latest The Sims 4 All in One Automatic [Including Nifty Knitting] or update your existing game from 1.63.136.1010 to 1.65.70.1020 using The Sims 4 Nifty Knitting Update Only 1.65.70.1020 [From Any All in One 1.63 or 1.64]
2. Delete the file
"\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 4\GameVersion.txt"
and hope you don't have any glitches whenever you switch from a newer to an older version.Heya, I'm a long time user of your downloads so I know how everything works and my games have worked previously π I've downloaded this version of the game on my computer but every time I try to load the game it comes up with:
'The code execution cannot proceed because MSVCP1200.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.'
I've reinstalled it and still no luck. Can anything be done?
You need to install the Visual C libraries.
Thank you! It worked perfectly.
π€© Awesome! You are more than welcome!
Hello,
With Windows 10, all I have is the option to replace the duplicate files - not merge them. If I replace duplicates, will I lose the saved games I already have?
Thanks for your help.
Hi! If you're are operating on files inside your Program Files like displayed on my tutorial, no, because your saves, mods and CC are inside
Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims4
Awesome. Thanks for your replay and for ALL you do! We appreciate it. π
You're welcome π
nevermind you just delete the GameVersion.txt
Yes! Glad you figured it out before I woke up π
Is there something we can do about the error message that says "Unable to start: The contents of your user data directory were created by a newer version of the sims 4 and cannot be loaded. Please update your game via Origin to play. [d6f91ffb:29f00e76:00000000:4b0d852b]"?
Will there be an upgrade to include the Knitting pack?
Yes, there is one already: The Sims 4 All in One Automatic [Nifty Knitting]