crashing check lists available :
Answer HQ (EA)
http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3...es-CTD/td-p/656
Game Help:Sims 3 Crashing Checklist
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title...shing_Checklist
computer specs:
is your computer able to handle a bigger growing sims 3 base game? since you said you played sims longer - or were you on the minimum-medium requierements? your game specs could help us to judge that.
patch level:
on which patch level are you? i always recommend to be patched to the current version.
alternative "solution" by bypassing the launcher:
and since you always were able to play the game normally for a while did you try to run the game manually by using the ts3w.exe. so i hope its only a stupid warning that can be neglected for the very moment if bypassing the launcher stopps the crashes only of course.
=> try to bypass the launcher and start the game through the ts3w.exe which can be found in programs(x86)\theSims3\Game\Bin
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