CAW Constantly Crashing

[MoonsAreBlue]

I've been trying to work on my new world for the past week now, but 5-10 minutes into working, CAW crashes. I've been using the old one and the new CAW, but I get the same crash in either one. My world is not very large, and there aren't many trees or houses placed, so it's definitely not crashing because of an information overload. It never crashed in early development either. It doesn't happen when I do anything specific or difficult. Sometimes it just crashes while I'm moving the camera. It's very frustrating. I really don't want to give up this world, but I'm having to save after each individual thing I do because it crashes so frequently.

Does this happen to anyone else?

[ladydragon76]

I wish you luck.  I've uninstalled, re-downloaded, and re-installed CAW over half a dozen times, and it STILL crashes without even opening anymore.  I remember my issues started as you're describing though.  It'd crash, then it'd crash and corrupt the map file.  Then the program would open, but I couldn't load new maps as they said "Not a .png file" even though they WERE .png files, and now I can't even get it to load without crashing before the program opens.  I hope someone has a fix.

*hugz*
-LD

[MoonsAreBlue]

Well, at least I'm not the only one this is happening to. It's just really frustrating because I've had to do the same tasks over and over again.

[Anushka]

Sorry this is happening to you guys..
I believe you checked if some CC or outdated mod is messing things up.
Delete cache files from Sim3 folder too (world cache). 
Also, check if each EP and SP is updated - you may need to updated them manually from the link on official site.
You should add CAW.exe into DEP (more info is on texh board I think).
Running a registry cleaning and system maintainance may help too.

How much free space do you have?
Also, is this happening after you added a lot? Can you open new world, or any of the backed up worlds?
 

[MoonsAreBlue]

  I have some mods (up to date) in the sims folder for when I run it in Edit in Game but I have't done that yet. Would it still affect CAW? I didn't think about DEP so I'll do that. I'll delete the cache files too. I didn't know that about the manually patching EPs ans SPs either, but I'll definitely look into it.

I have lots of room on my computer. And the crash does not always happen after adding a lot. One time it happened just after I finished editing a cliff.

Thanks for all your help, Anushka!