Crash on save
kmonica:
Hi all,
Thanks for posting!
@ Tever: reinstalling now, let's see what'll happen
@ ProfPlumbob: I tried the autosave feature but in my case it seems to make no difference; it crashes randomly (very often!) whether I save manually or thru Awesomemod.
@ ProcessDenied: My world is very small, currently only 35MB. I am running 3.20GHz i7 extreme edition CPU (overclocked to 3.8Ghz), 2 GeForce 9800 GX2 cards in SLI mode, 8GB Ram, 3 western digital drives in RAID. All with the latest drivers. I tried disabling SLI (and just about anything else I could think of!) but it seems to make no difference. My system kicks a major butt with all other games with no stability or other issues, only Sims seems to be borked for me :-(
I am putting clean install of Sims now, and will try again with my current saved world, although I have a feeling it probably won't change much...
Thanks.
ProfPlumbob:
an interesting observation; autosave doesn't crash my game when it's running in window mode, but only in fullscreen. The last two nights I tested this leaving the game on, one night with full screen, the other in window. No crashing with window mode, full screen crashed by its third save.
weird!
Process Denied:
I didn't mean the computer graphics, I meant in the game under options, the game had all of them on high, so I lowered them to medium instead and my game stopped crashing. As your game gets bigger, your computer graphic options may have to be lowered to compensate.
byronh:
It seems games randomly get corrupted regardless of what mods or CC (or lack thereof) you have installed.
The only advice I can give is save often. I made that mistake again today while trying to make my own neighbourhood. I assumed an error code 13 or crash was unlikely because none of the residents would have even begun story progression, but I was wrong after about 3 hours of work.
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.
wizard_merlin:
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 don't agree, I often run the game over several hours (real time) without saving, and it saves fine when i do. the longest i have gone without saving was about 8 hours playing. When I finally saved to go to bed, it saved fine. So I don't think the time between saving has anything to do with it.
I have only had 1 problem with saving, which threw an error 12. I deleted the saved game, restored the back up, and haven't had any errors since.
I have only had one crash on saving, and that was after selecting quit, then telling the game to save before quitting, it crashed during the save. Since then, I always save on it's own, then quit without saving, no problems since.
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