User blog:Googleybear/Hot Diggedy Dog!

My Sims 3 game has stopped working. I haven't played on it for a few months but I decided to go on it today to find it doesn't work. I can open the game launcher and start the game but then it comes up with a black screen and an error thing which says Sims 3 Unable to start game Service initialization failed (0x039e8474). I have been through tons of forums and nothing has helped me. I have a lot of stuff saved, I got into my fourth generation and I built this house from scratch which I kept adding extensions to every so often. So I really don't want to lose it. Do any of you have suggestions, tips or ideas?