Crash on save
gelfling:
Quote from: byronh on 2009 September 07, 02:37:42
The error codes/crashes seem to ONLY occur after you don't save for a long time. When I play with autosave every 15 minutes, I haven't had a single crash or error code.
I also disagree. There are times when I can play for hours on end without an issue and yet on other occasions I see one or other of these save errors after no more than thirty minutes of play. There's something wrong with the game client somewhere but if there is a link between the amount of time played and a save error then it has to be triggered by some item, Sim or other random thing that may be encountered during play. Perhaps it's triggered by a random act carried by an NPC Sim such as switching on the radio and tuning it into the children's station.
kmonica:
Hey all! Thanks for all the great ideas. It seems that I have finally fixed my crashes. For GOOD! What did the trick for me is setting the "High Detail Lots" to 4. Here is a useful post http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/79541.page Go figure why this worked, but it just took away ALL my crashes including error 12 and 13. Just played for 15 sim days continously and not even ONE crash!!! YAY!!!! ;D
lmind:
Quote from: kmonica on 2009 September 10, 01:45:19
Hey all! Thanks for all the great ideas. It seems that I have finally fixed my crashes. For GOOD! What did the trick for me is setting the "High Detail Lots" to 4. Here is a useful post http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/79541.page Go figure why this worked, but it just took away ALL my crashes including error 12 and 13. Just played for 15 sim days continously and not even ONE crash!!! YAY!!!! ;D
I read that thread and tried this yesterday. Just came back to report that it did not work for us. We still get CTD, error 12, and error 13's when saving. It happens randomly, whether we play for 5 minutes or for 50. Seems more likely to happen if the camera is on a community lot, as opposed to having the camera on the active family's home lot. (but happens randomly on both) Our savegame is up to ~63megs after 4 generations on normal lifespan, and I think the game simply eats itself after a while. Eventually, no matter what you do, saving becomes a game of Russian roullette, and that's just the way it is.
kmonica:
Hi lmind,
Don't give up; I am sure you'll find solution soon! I can tell you it took me weeks to find a solution to my crash problem; very frustrating and it seems a lot of folks out there have that problem. I hope and trust that EA will fix it with the next patch.
lmind:
Here to report back (again).
Tried playing in windowed mode, worked for about 25 minutes, then crashed with error code 12, and then 13. At this point, we can only play 15-20 minutes (sometimes 30, as I said before) before crashing while saving. We still keep autosave turned on and it saves every 5 minutes, so that if (read: when) it crashes, we only lose 5 minutes of human time. I can't even begin to tell you how frustrating it is to play the same freaking story over, and over, and over, and over. We really need a solution to this, and are open to trying anything.
So far, we have tried:
~removing custom content
~removed all cache files, regenerated without awesomemod, removed script.cache, then ran with awesomemod
~Save in Edit Town
~Save As in Edit Town (this actually sometimes works, but we have to close the game anyway because it will crash the very next autosave)
~Manual Saving (of course)
~turning down the number of High Detail lots to 4
~playing in window mode
~saving while zoomed in on the ground of the lot (so that not a lot of objects were onscreen)
OH, and we're not willing to play without awesomemod; we are on generation 5 in a Legacy Challenge and are not willing to start over!
As I said, all we get is a good 20 minutes of playing time before we have to reload the game. It is complete BS. Anyway, if anyone has another solution, please post!
Thanks!
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