Service Initialization Failed (0x0175dcbb) [SOLVED]
kiki:
****SOLVED 21/11/10: uninstall and then go into your registry and manually DELETE all references to the sims 3 and eps, then reinstall**
After spending hours today reinstalling and the game working fine aside from my CC refusing to show up due to a corrupted resources.cfg, I'm suddenly getting this error and I'm at a loss for what could be causing it and how to fix it so I'm looking for ideas and suggestions I might not have tried.
Googling the error message itself wasn't much of a help; there's only 2 results for it on MTS2 and while one fixed it, they closed their thread without posting how they fixed it except to say "cleared user data" and the mods have now locked it down. The other result stated that it was a problem with the registry and the path for the game - I checked my registry and every EP and SP points to the right targets and the sims3.reg suggestion made no difference.
No one here on MATY seems to have posted about this problem before, anyone that has gotten the "Unable to start game: Service Initialization Failed" error has a different registry string at the end of it and is related to patching, which doesn't apply here because the game is fully patched.
I removed all my CC, including the framework and the fresh resources.cfg I had just installed, with no luck. I know a common fix for the game is to delete caches, I deleted all of them without any luck and the final thing I tried just now was a total wipe of my EA folder in My Documents. My game rebuilt the shell folders, but instead of rebuilding them all as it has previously, my The Sims 3 folder now looks like this:
Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to try and fix this issue before I just do a total wipe and spend another bajillion hours reinstalling? I have all EPs and SPs installed and I'm on Vista SP1, 64-bit with 8gb of RAM and a 2.6ghz quad core, so I don't think it's a hardware issue.
Tever:
Did you try using CCleaner? If it really is a registry thing, that might clean it up. If it doesn't help and you do wind up uninstalling, it might be a good idea to run it before you reinstall, too.
kiki:
Quote from: Tever on 2010 November 14, 14:57:15
Did you try using CCleaner? If it really is a registry thing, that might clean it up. If it doesn't help and you do wind up uninstalling, it might be a good idea to run it before you reinstall, too.
I'm not confident in CCleaner, the last time I used it it wiped out not only long-dead registry values but it also wiped out half the registry values for my anti-virus and my PC got royally borked because my anti-virus started to make my PC bluescreen on startup when the info was noticed as missing.
Tever:
Whoa, glad I always create a backup first, then. I've never had any problem before with it, but there's a first time for everything. You could try going through your registry manually and looking for duplicate entries. Maybe use the search function?
almostawesome:
I just got the same error, but it occurred for me after stupidly letting the launcher apply the latest patch. I tried patching manually only to find an error in the World Adventures patch (for region 1, at least). Might it be a hidden patching problem?
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