Author Topic: Sims 3 Keeps Crashing (Read 54707 times)

MrsFlynn · « **Reply #15 on:** January 04, 2014, 08:49:11 PM »

That's good you've got her backed up. When we first got the game, I was really bad at not saving my Sim people to the Simbin. But now I'm getting better at that.

I wish you the best of luck trying to re-do your town.

MrsFlynn

blc1977 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 04, 2014, 09:04:34 PM »

Thanks! I appreciate all the help and the chat today

I hope it won't be the last. I added you as one of my buddies. Hope you don't mind

MrsFlynn · « **Reply #17 on:** January 04, 2014, 11:57:44 PM »

I'm happy I could help.

And no I don't mind you adding me as a buddy.

MrsFlynn

MarianT · « **Reply #18 on:** January 05, 2014, 07:26:05 AM »

blc, one thing I've found is that some of the pre made houses will cause my game to crash in Isla Paradiso and the newer store towns. Before you get rid of your game, try moving your family to an empty lot or a cheaper house.

blc1977 · « **Reply #19 on:** January 05, 2014, 07:47:33 AM »

Quote from: MarianT on January 05, 2014, 07:26:05 AM

blc, one thing I've found is that some of the pre made houses will cause my game to crash in Isla Paradiso and the newer store towns. Before you get rid of your game, try moving your family to an empty lot or a cheaper house.

Thanks for the suggestion MarianT! Unfortunately I have already removed the game (I did not see his until this morning), and started a new one. But should this issue happen again, I will keep that in mind!

blc1977 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 05, 2014, 11:08:02 AM »

Well I think I have just confirmed that IP is what is causing my Sims 3 game to crash. I can play in my other town, and any other town, except IP. After doing all that I did yesterday, I was able to play for a few hours last night, and this morning, but it just crashed on me AGAIN

I am contacting EA and telling them I want my money back for an expansion that doesn't work...

CASnarl · « **Reply #21 on:** July 06, 2014, 01:32:52 AM »

I found this while trying to figure out why only one of my saves (my Riverview one) crashes about 5 minutes into loading, and I haven't been able to play them since sometime in May and it's July now. It's the only one of my saves that crashes.
I ALWAYS delete all the .cache files (social, simcompositor, script, compositor, caspart)
I ALWAYS delete Collections, Custom Music, Exports, Featured Items, IGACache, SigsCache ... I read that those were the ones okay to delete
I ALWAYS make sure the CurrentGame.sims3 is empty
Off and on I delete the Travel.DB from all of my Saves (memories are a waste)
I make sure DCBackup is empty except for ccmerged
I have a TSUNAMI of 3rd party content, but I run Delphy's Dashboard from time to time to check for corrupted or conflicted content. If anything pops up I delete that content. As of right now, it says everything is fine.

I don't think it is Mod related though and maybe a problem with Riverview since it is only that save that crashes?
I am going to try and hopefully save my family to the bin and reload them in Sunset Valley or maybe Twinbrook....I have had very few issues with Twinbrook.

To save the family to the bin I go into Edit Town, right?
Also I may try doing resetsim * as that helps with freezing in a few of my other saves...maybe will help with crashing in my Riverview save.

KhaineGB · « **Reply #22 on:** July 06, 2014, 08:45:23 AM »

Yep. Edit town, click your household, then save copy to library.

Personally, I'd take out ALL of your CC and then try running the game. If it works, keep adding CC back until it starts crashing again. Once it starts crashing, remove all CC EXCEPT for the one that made your game crash... and try it again. If it's working, I suspect you may be running out of memory. If not, then you found the culprit.

CASnarl · « **Reply #23 on:** July 06, 2014, 02:04:36 PM »

I had to do that once before when a Peggy hairstyle was the culprit for why none of the graphics (fires, ghosts from the profession, the FX machines, the floating things for animal lovers in CAS) were working as well as why I couldn't make vampires because they never got the unusual blemish moodlet.
The only reason I don't want to do that now is because the family that crashes, my Riverview one, the sims are essentialy ALL CC down to their skin. I have a downloading addiction....but that is why I run Delphy's Dashboard every time I download anything new.

I know I'm short on memory....I constantly get a popup that my laptop needs to close sims 3 because it's using waaaaaaaay too much memory....but I don't feel that is CC related, as my mom gets the same popup in her game and she doesn't use CC at all.

Luckily, I was able to get it to run long enough without crashing to copy my Riverview family to the library, so I am going to reload them in Sunset Valley or something and hope that it doesn't crash. They are one of my favorite families and the ONLY one that crashes...so I hope reloading them fixes the issue. At least then I have them saved to start anew.

I type too much o.O

KhaineGB · « **Reply #24 on:** July 06, 2014, 02:59:44 PM »

If you want to make absolutely sure it doesn't crash anymore, then you're going to HAVE to do that.

Also, if you have less than 4GB of RAM, you are going to either have to upgrade or cut down on your CC. If you have 4GB or more, then I highly recommend using the Large Address Aware utility on your Sims 3 executable file. That should stop the "running out of memory" error and may fix your freezing issues.

Angélique · « **Reply #25 on:** July 07, 2014, 04:29:46 AM »

Quote from: KhaineGB on July 06, 2014, 02:59:44 PM

If you have 4GB or more, then I highly recommend using the Large Address Aware utility on your Sims 3 executable file. That should stop the "running out of memory" error and may fix your freezing issues.

Actually, the Large Address Aware utility has been redundant since EA released patch 1.17 in October 26 2010. After that date Sims 3 is automatically LAA if you're playing it on a 64 bit computer.

Read more about it here. If you click the spoiler titled Applications Known to Benefit from Large Address Aware, you can see that The Sims 3 game has been crossed out.

KhaineGB · « **Reply #26 on:** July 07, 2014, 05:50:19 AM »

Funny. I just patched it yesterday and it was NOT marked as Large Address Aware.

EDIT: Actually, I had crashing issues until I applied that myself, and that was with the 1.67 super patch.

Angélique · « **Reply #27 on:** July 07, 2014, 06:33:04 AM »

Quote from: KhaineGB on July 07, 2014, 05:50:19 AM

Funny. I just patched it yesterday and it was NOT marked as Large Address Aware.

Yes, that sounds a bit odd, because it should be if you're on a 64 bit system, which I assume you are?

Have you checked how much RAM your game is using at the most? Mine was using almost 3GB once when I looked, and as I understand it, that wouldn't be possible if it wasn't LAA. And I have never used the LAA utility, or done any other manual modifications to make that happen.

Before I installed Late Night from DVD disk, and thereby got the 1.17 patch, I had one or two Error 12, which are "out of memory" errors according to Nraas site. After that patch I haven't had any more error 12, so I imagine it was that patch that made it possible for the game to access more than only 2GB RAM, which in turn stopped the error 12 from happening.

KhaineGB · « **Reply #28 on:** July 07, 2014, 06:42:33 AM »

Yep. Win 7 Pro x64.

And before I used LAA, the game used to hang and crash as soon as it hit 2GB (verified with Task Manager). After patching it with LAA, no problems at all.

Angélique · « **Reply #29 on:** July 07, 2014, 07:45:05 AM »

Quote from: KhaineGB on July 07, 2014, 06:42:33 AM

Yep. Win 7 Pro x64.

And before I used LAA, the game used to hang and crash as soon as it hit 2GB (verified with Task Manager). After patching it with LAA, no problems at all.

It's fine that the LAA program solved your problems immediately, but I can't for the life of me understand why the 1.17 patch didn't do the job automatically for you like it should have done, and apparently did for me. That's a real mystery.

Have you any constructive ideas or theories as to what is/was going on, that made/makes it necessary for you to use the LAA thing? Is there maybe something unusual with your Sims 3 installation, location or otherwise, that could possibly explain this?

And also, I can't understand what EA were thinking when they made Sims 3 to not be LAA in the first place, and then waited 16 months, from June 2009 to October 2010, before they "wizened up" as Twallan put it, and issued a much needed patch that corrected this obvious mistake. During those 16 months the evil Error 12 was rampant like the plague among the Sims 3 community, because I don't think most people knew what caused it, and also didn't know about the LAA utility, when later on that was made publicly available by its creator.

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