Constant game crashes

[Qosmic]

I'm having big, big problems with my game. Ever since I got uni, I've had some game crashes, which I didn't have before. I get the message "The application has crashed, the application will now terminate". At first only with too many money trees going "kaching" at once, so I stopped using them. But then the game started crashing randomly (or so it seems). The first couple of weeks it was pretty much ok anyway, I just saved 3-4 times every sim day instead of just once every 24 hours. But the number of crashes increased, and now I can't play for more than a couple of rl minutes (a couple of sim hours if I'm lucky). It doesn't matter which house I'm in, which sim is selected or what they're doing. CAS has crashed too, and loading lots as well as general playing mode. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, deleted all downloads, run defrag and scandisk, reset the system, updated drivers, made sure to close all unnecessary background programs, inactivated firewalls and virus programs etc. You name it, I've done it. I even tried to play with just TS2 without installing uni again, but that causes crashes too, even if not as often, but at least once every sim day (it NEVER crashed before I bought uni). Doesn't matter which game speed I choose, or how I change the ingame sound or graphic settings. I've searched the forums here, the BBS and everywhere else I could think of, but I haven't seen anyone having these problems to the same extent or happening so randomly.
I'm more than desperate at this point. I can't play at all if it's gonna be like this. :weep: I've sent an email to the Swedish EA customer support, but haven't got an answer. If anyone can help me, I'd be forever grateful!!

My computor specs:
Pentium 4 3,0 Ghz
1024 MB RAM
200 GB harddrive
ATI Radeon 9600 video card

[teresa7159]

Might want to check and see if your fans are dirty. You can use canned air to clean them. I got that message when mine overheated. I play on a notebook pc, but keeping the fans clean on pcs is very important. I read your post on the bbs. Not sure this is what is causing your problem, but worth checking. Good luck!

Teresa

[Amish Nick]

Sounds like dirty fans too. My computer would do the same thing till i cleaned the processor fan. It over heats very fast and will cause problems like what you wrote. Its easy to take care of your self. Just be sure to read the instructions on the canned air.

[Qosmic]

Thank you very much for your suggestions. The store where I bought my computor a couple of months ago offered to clean it for free, so I'm gonna take it to them this afternoon. Hopefully that'll help, and even if it doesn't, the computor probably need some cleaning anyway. And I've learned something new; I'll buy canned air for future needs when I can afford it.