Hi,

I followed the guides i found online to fixing the crashing of my game, one suggested downloading patches to my expansions packs (which crash log was telling me was out of date), i did that and then stumbled across the threads of getting your game to recognise ur graphics card, after the patches my game was still buggy and crashing whenever i went into CAS, i recently moved my games to a new pc with windows 8 and a good graphics card so i knew it couldnt be coz it wasnt good enough so i followed the guide to get it to read my graphics card.

i ended up losing the original graphicsrules.sgr file which was dumb but managed to copy it off an expansion pack CD.
i then went into the game and it came up with no graphics card recognised. i tried again to edit it but to no avail. i then went into devicelog to check and it is now completely empty.
i have made a backup of all my sims 3 files and started anew but still doesn't recognise anything, each time it generates a devicelog its empty.

im really stuck, could someone please help

I send you my deviceconfig.log but there is no way to guarantee that this will work as we might have different expansion packs, etc., and there for it might not recognize the deviceconfig.log. I also play Windows 8, so, give it a try and remember to do a backup just in case.

Really hope it works out for you! Do you know what graphic card your computer have? Is it a nvidia or intel by any chance?

I would try resetting the game to factory settings by following Crinrict's directions. http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/0...installing.html

I keep an extra copy of the DeviceConfig file (not in game file) since I have had it reset several times.