courtneyshea
21st May 2012, 4:54 AM
My Sims 2 game is suddenly crashing at random times. I get the error '0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION' in my logs. The entire install is only about 2 months old. I have all EP's & SP's. (Unfortunately a number of them are the collections AND through Origin)
-I have tried the entire FAQ, but it's not working for me because I cannot re-create the crash. I zipped up my sims 2 folder, then took out my downloads folder and one by one added each subfolder in and started the game and took my sim to all the community lots I have, especially the large ones, waited for the witches to come, got in the photo booths, anything to TRY and stress my system. Doesn't work. After hours, the entire folder is back in game and there was no crashing.
-My game is fully patched.
-I opened the case and cleaned it out. Nothing is running hot, anyway.
-My drivers are up to date.
-I have turned off background processes.
-My system meets/exceeds the requirements. See attached dxdiag
-I've deleted all cache files
-I've run HCDU
-I've run simPE's GUID scanner and deleted any files that might be an issue.
-I keep my computer in perfect shape by cleaning junk files, checking for registry errors, broken shortcuts, etc. including defragging on a regular basis.
-I don't have any symptoms of failing memory or video card, such as blue screens, blurry textures, etc. I also have absolutely no problems outside of the game.
I am really at a loss as to why this is happening. It only happens a couple times a day, usually but not always, while on a community lot. Generally after I've been playing for a few hours (why I wondered about the overheating possibility, but it seems not to be the problem at all because I took a couple hours off then restarted the computer and it crashed immediately (once)), and then it'll run fine again with no crashes for a couple hours. Case in point, after 3 crashes today the first at 2:21, the next at 4:49 then next at 7:09, I then spent from 7:30 to almost 10:00 and nothing, in & out of the game, trying my hardest to get it to crash.
Any ideas at all?
ETA: I've also put the .exe in the DEP exception list and run CFF Explorer on it as well. And I don't have any savedsims, custom music, or custom paintings (the ones in the sims 2 folder, not meaning downloads)
-I have tried the entire FAQ, but it's not working for me because I cannot re-create the crash. I zipped up my sims 2 folder, then took out my downloads folder and one by one added each subfolder in and started the game and took my sim to all the community lots I have, especially the large ones, waited for the witches to come, got in the photo booths, anything to TRY and stress my system. Doesn't work. After hours, the entire folder is back in game and there was no crashing.
-My game is fully patched.
-I opened the case and cleaned it out. Nothing is running hot, anyway.
-My drivers are up to date.
-I have turned off background processes.
-My system meets/exceeds the requirements. See attached dxdiag
-I've deleted all cache files
-I've run HCDU
-I've run simPE's GUID scanner and deleted any files that might be an issue.
-I keep my computer in perfect shape by cleaning junk files, checking for registry errors, broken shortcuts, etc. including defragging on a regular basis.
-I don't have any symptoms of failing memory or video card, such as blue screens, blurry textures, etc. I also have absolutely no problems outside of the game.
I am really at a loss as to why this is happening. It only happens a couple times a day, usually but not always, while on a community lot. Generally after I've been playing for a few hours (why I wondered about the overheating possibility, but it seems not to be the problem at all because I took a couple hours off then restarted the computer and it crashed immediately (once)), and then it'll run fine again with no crashes for a couple hours. Case in point, after 3 crashes today the first at 2:21, the next at 4:49 then next at 7:09, I then spent from 7:30 to almost 10:00 and nothing, in & out of the game, trying my hardest to get it to crash.
Any ideas at all?
ETA: I've also put the .exe in the DEP exception list and run CFF Explorer on it as well. And I don't have any savedsims, custom music, or custom paintings (the ones in the sims 2 folder, not meaning downloads)