Sims 3 Keeps Crashing

[KhaineGB]

Other than the fact I don't let it install to Program Files (which, to be fair, I don't do with -any- of my games), no idea.

I have to do it on my desktop too. Actually... I just had a thought. I wonder if it's because I launch the game directly from TS3W.exe, because that's the file I always patch.

After all, there's 5 executables in the base game DIR (S3Launcher, Sims3Launcher, Sims3LauncherW, TS3 and TS3W)

Also, if you think about it, most people in June 2009 were running systems with 2-4GB RAM and Windows XP... -maybe- Vista, and even then it wasn't guaranteed to be the 64-bit version.

It's highly likely EA didn't make the game LAA compatible to ensure it ran on these older systems. At that point, I was running XP Pro 64-Bit edition and had 8GB RAM in my machine... so I was an oddity.

[CASnarl]

So, in terms a not so tech savvy person would understand what do you recommend to stop the game from giving me a popup that it needs to close sims 3 every so often because it's using too much memory?

I have Windows 8 on my laptop
Specs:
processor: intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz 1.90GHz
installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB (7.87 GB usable)
system type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor

I get a popup that it needs to close sims 3 to prevent memory loss and when I open up the Task Manager it shows it is using 3-4GB and my laptop apparently doesn't like that. I don't HAVE to close out the game, and CAN keep playing but I'm not sure that's the best thing to do...

As for my one Riverview family that crashed and was my only crashing issue, saving them to the library and reloading them in a new town/save helped.

[KhaineGB]

Your game can't use more than 4GB, which is why you're getting the pop up.

I'm sorry, the only way to stop it is to delete some of your CC. The game is loading ALL of it for caching purposes, and when you boot the game, it loads the cache into memory.

That's why you're getting the "running out of memory" error.

[Angel]

Yea.. I'm having a same problem after installing Fun Pack Movie Stuff so I did what someone told me to do. So what should I do?