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22nd Feb 2018 at 2:49 AM
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This user has the following games installed:
Sims 3, World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, Into the Future
"Sims 3 has stopped working" + crash after a few minutes of gameplay, xcpt says ACCESS_VIOLATION
Heya! I've been playing ts3 for a while now and while I've had my fair share of glitches, I've never been this stuck before. I tried to follow the guides online to the best of my ability, but I'm autistic, so I have a hard time understanding some of the instructions for fixes online and I'm at the point where I'm kinda desperate. The problem:
As the title says, a few minutes in Live Mode, I'll get a message saying "The Sims 3 has stopped working" and my game will crash. I say Live Mode because despite this, I was still somehow able to make a full sim (a process which can take me up to an hour) without a crash, and then get maybe 5-10 min in before the crash. my xcpt files are inconsistent in address location, but almost all of them contain "ACCESS_VIOLATION". I've tried renaming my Sims 3 file and starting fresh (so no CC or mods), but it didn't help.
I'm fairly certain the culprit was installing four new expansions (Late Night, Seasons, Ambitions, and Pets) all at once, as the game worked fine before then. It doesn't help that I realized I'd forgotten to take out my mods and CC before the expansions had started installing, though I did run a clean game right after they finished (renaming the TS3 folder and all that).
Other noticeable weird things that have only started happening since this:
- after clicking the "play" button on the launcher, the game starts... minimized. upon opening it, the Maxis logo intro thing is skippy and weird.
- I couldn't take screenshots while in fullscreen mode; the screenshot would be completely black. I dismissed it as ts3 being weirdly buggy as it always is but now that I think back that's never happened before
- The window itself in windowed mode looks like a windows 7 window in style/aesthetic, and the graphics go to complete shit
Spoiler for stuff that probably isn't relevant but I feel like I should at least mention:
The game seemed okay when playing an EA family in Twinbrook (before I noticed the crashing issue), but, I didn't play with the family in Live Mode for very long at all before returning to the main menu. I then completely forgot about nraas traveler meaning you need to restart the game before loading a file, loaded a Shang Simla file, and got the first crash. I realized what I'd done, figured it was fair that it crashed, and decided to try playing Appaloosa Plains instead- which is when I created the aforementioned new sim w/o any crashes, but the crashes have been constant in live mode since then.
I wound up deleting nraas story progression/woohooer/hybrid/traveler as well as a bunch of cc I don't use a little while after that. the cc has proven itself not to be the culprit but nonetheless i wanna reduce the strain on my computer as much as possible
Both in a bid for improved performance and just out of annoyance, the only things enabled in population control are pets/horses, my household is opted out of the celebrity system, and the lunar cycle is forever on waxing crescent lmao
Things I've tried:
- removing mods/cc that I don't use &/or may be causing extra strain on my computer
- starting fresh by renaming the TS3 folder
- removing all mods/cc (via the renaming the ts3 folder thing)
- closing all background applications
- windowed mode
- I use nraas errortrap and overwatch anyways
- clearing all caches
Things I haven't tried:
- CCleaner: I really don't want to download anything new if possible
- Late Night/1.17 Crash Fix: I don't understand the instructions at all, specifically the "rename The Sims 3 folders or at least move the Library folder out of there" part
- Checking drivers: to be totally honest I'm scared I'm gonna screw it up really badly,, i have no idea what im doing
- Installing a mod to only run certain expansions at once: i'm worried about what it would do to skills, clothes, furniture, LTRs/LTWs, etc. even if I wasn't playing on that save
- DEP: I can't figure out how to do it on windows 8 with the games installed via Steam
- Uninstall/reinstall: It takes so long... ((and also i have no idea how to do it with the games installed through steam))
Game info:
Installed expansions: WA, Ambitions*, LN*, Generations, Pets*, SN, Seasons*, UL, IP, ITF (basically, everything except showtime)
All are installed through Steam, ones with an asterisk are new
Version: 1.67.2.024037
Specs:
I hope that's enough info, let me know if I need to provide more...
Sorry if this is troublesome at all!!
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