Help! My game's screwed up
Tangie:
The one that has the "bad" file extention name is your corrupted save file. I recently experienced my first error 12 and got a "bad" file. I just deleted it, and for safe keeping I copied the backup file and placed it elsewhere on my hard drive. Then I renamed the backup file to the name my game was supposed to be named. The next time I opened the game it paused when I selected the game I wanted to open but after a few seconds (I actually think I pressed ctrl-alt-del) then the game loaded normally and I haven't experienced any problems since. At least not yet.
ShortyBoo:
Well, I tried using the backup, but it didn't work. So I decided to download 3booter and FPS Limiter, thinking maybe that would help at least with my crashing issue, but it didn't. I started up my game, made a new file, and after just a few minutes in build mode, the game CTD and I got his exception:
[Exception info]
date: 2009-12-15
time: 22.35.22
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x44a7ed06
address: 0x00944135 "C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 World Adventures\Game\Bin\TS3EP01.exe":0x0001:0x00543135
I don't get why my game keeps crashing. I didn't have this problem at all before WA. And now it seems like the crashes are getting more and more frequent. I just want it to stop so I can play the game. What does that exception mean anyway? I keep getting those ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address ones, just with different numbers at the end.
sewinglady:
Oh my...I got that once...it's pretty much the BFBVFS for your neighborhood as far as I know.
I uninstalled the game and reinstalled clean - did not even attempt to save any neighborhoods as I decided to go 'minimal' with my reinstallation of custom content.
The one piece of advice I can offer here is that from the point I reinstalled, I have never used the town names as the game file names. I've been using a totally different naming system and always 'save as' so I can always go back in time to a previous point in the neighborhood when things were fine if need be.
ShortyBoo:
I swear I have the worst luck with Sims games. When I first got TS2, I had a GeForce 6600 GT. For a long time, after an hour or so of playing, I'd get a BSOD and have to manually restart my computer. I tried everything, and in the end, the only thing that stopped it was switching to a Radeon x1900. So for TS3, I wasn't going to switch back to an Nvidia card simply because of my TS2 experience with it not working, so I bought a Radeon HD 4850 in February, just before they announced the release date was to be moved from February to June. Once the game leaked, I installed it and found that when I went into CAS, after just seconds, the music would stutter and the game would go to a black screen or I'd lose the video signal to my monitor, forcing me to manually restart my computer. I tried everything, and I mean everything that was suggested to me. The first thing I did was eliminate overheating as the cause. It never got above 57 C. So I reinstalled Windows, I replaced my power supply, I swapped the stock cooling on the card for a VGA cooler, I swapped out my old case for one with more fans, nothing worked. As a last ditch effort, I decided to try the game with my brother's GeForce 8800, and it worked. He hates ATI cards, so he wouldn't trade me even though my card was a year newer, so I tried going back to my old x1900. It worked, but the graphics sucked.
But now I can't even play on my crappy old video card and I was just thinking recently that maybe the FPS issue might have caused at least part of the problem, but after using it, my game crashed even quicker. Unless I did something wrong and FPS Limiter didn't work. I put it in the Sims 3 root directory with 3Booter. I was hoping maybe the FPS thing was what was wrong with my Radeon HD 4850 and I could go back to using it. But now it's looking like I just might have to buy a new card, but after wasting almost $300 on the 4850 less than a year ago, I'd hate to get a card and have it also not work. I'm almost thinking of buying my brother a newer GeForce card and taking his old one. He plays more games than I do anyway.
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