DasmX86Dll.dll Not Found Issue
Hallie:
The intereting thing with this is that I am having the same problem and am also using the latest version of ATI graphics cards drivers.
Looking at the spore thread here it would appear the advice then was to roll back from the 9.- series to the 8.12 update. Saying there seemed to be an issue with this new set of drivers.
Unfortunately I can no longer get 8.12 :(
I am just wondering if this might be more an ATI issue. Another thing I noticed is this only started happening to me when I had 4 controllable sims in one house, which also happens to be the time they moved out of Maxis houses into downloaded ones.
I remember the old problems that we used to have with Nvadia cards with TS2 and in a way this feels similar. The same kind of thing is happening each time. It is after I have a bigger family, it came up after an age transition and is not going away after that.
Another factor with this is I have had this game since the 5th and this only really happened yesterday. I have played for hours at a time to no ill effect now all of a sudden Save Error Code 13 rears its head and now my game does that all the time and crashes!
I have even reduced the quality of my graphics to no avail.
Hallie:
Ok so here is something interesting. I managed to start a new family. While my sim is single I am not experiencing these problems. What I may do is stay with this and see if it related the number of sims I am playing or something or if I somehow managed to glitch that initial neighbourhood somehow.
Maybe as well if I save my family and start a new neighbourhood with them. Is it possible to glitch your neighbourhood to that extent? That it causes this kind of a crash?
McCrea:
Quote from: Hallie on 2009 June 21, 13:40:30
What I may do is stay with this and see if it related the number of sims I am playing or something or if I somehow managed to glitch that initial neighbourhood somehow. Is it possible to glitch your neighbourhood to that extent? That it causes this kind of a crash?
That was my first reaction: I must have got a bad object somewhere. Easy enough to start a new game in TS3 to find out. For me, starting new game, reinstalling, etc, helped not at all. I am more likely to crash with more sims, but I do not think more sims cause the crash. Indeed, I have had 20+ sims running around, which just means maybe I'll crash in 20 minutes instead of 30. Same as detail level. I like what I said before: " Actually symptom is CTD, usually after long disk access while apparently (un)loading textures. I don't suspect that's the cause tho, it's just most likely to fart when it's gassy, you know. "
In short, however, I would speculate that it is NOT "simply" an ATI issue -- if it were, their would be thousands of people complaining, not just a handful. Still... Switching my drivers did help alot. I have Radeon x1600 PCIx16 1024. What are you running, Hallie?
I unfortunately had to switch video drivers again. That NGO ATI Optimized Driver was give me a BAD_POOL_HEADER once a day (one of the BSODs -- I was very lucky to realize the cause and only after I found an app that made it reproducable). Fixed that, but back to crashing the game every, oh 30 minutes on average. *shrug*. I'll try some other drivers, but I've been a bit busy these days. My mom and my nephew just moved in with me. There are boxes everywhere. If you want me to try any other ideas, just speak and I'll get around to it sometime.
morriganrant:
Quote from: Hallie on 2009 June 21, 04:46:27
The intereting thing with this is that I am having the same problem and am also using the latest version of ATI graphics cards drivers.
Looking at the spore thread here it would appear the advice then was to roll back from the 9.- series to the 8.12 update. Saying there seemed to be an issue with this new set of drivers.
Unfortunately I can no longer get 8.12 :(
Why can you no longer get the 8.12? You just need to look harder. ATI does keep their old drivers up on a page, you just need to read the entire driver page for your card to see the link near the bottom that says previous drivers and software.
For instance, this is for my setup:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/previous/Pages/radeonaiw_mce.aspx
midix:
I have a dual experience with ATI Tray Tools. When I had my first video, X300SE based, I could not get latest ATI drivers work right - I got BSOD on each Shut Down or Stand By, although gaming was stable. Only ATI Tray Tools helped get rid of that BSOD.
But when I upgraded to ATI HD3650 - my current video (it even does not have active cooler, just a radiator), ATI Tray Tools gave BSOD on every Hibernate. So I switched back to latest Catalyst. And now my Sims 3 is stable - no crash since 2.june (I played it only for some hours though, but anyway - no real CTDs or BSODs, except those well-known game loading CTDs with awesomemod installed and left xxx.cache). My graphic settings are all on maximal, except resolution. And my PC is not even Dual Core - just P4 with 2GB RAM and XP + SP3.
So really weird, when it works and when not.
Oh, BTW, I have disabled everything related to ATI Hotkey poller and ATI External Event Utility (services, drivers). Maybe that makes the game more stable ? ;D Mystery.
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