Ambitions and SURPRISE! - CTDs
Buzzler:
Quote from: Klinn on 2010 June 02, 13:02:05
The DEP trick did nothing for me. Tweaking the Ambition executable to use 4GB on my Vista x64 system seems to have cured the crashes, but the freezes remain. For example, with my sim just sitting in the library reading a skill book, approx every 5 seconds the game freezes for 3 or 4 seconds.
This is an old issue. There's probably a sim somewhere causing this. Resetsim would help, but there's no way to know which one it is. Once AM is updated, try resetworld. It worked for me.
GnatGoSplat:
Quote from: Tangie on 2010 June 01, 20:22:40
It turns out that adding the EP02 to your windows DEP list stops this from happening...just thought I'd pass that tidbit along. Worked for me, anyway.
I'm curious why the DEP fix would work for anyone. By default, Windows installs with DEP set to, "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only." The default option should only apply DEP to Windows system binaries. Any other executable, including Sims 3, should be unaffected. For those where the DEP setting made any difference, was your DEP setting different than default to begin with?
Tangie:
Well, that's an excellent question.
Back when everyone was having so much trouble with the game crashing, someone (I believe this originated on the EA BBS) reported that changing the setting to allow DEP for everything but the EA executables seemed to fix their crashing, so many of us followed suit and it seemed to help. But of course every time there is an expansion, the new exe file is going to have to be added to the list. If I have time I may experiment by changing the setting back to essential Windows programs and services and see what happens.
ShortyBoo:
Quote from: GnatGoSplat on 2010 June 02, 18:44:05
I'm curious why the DEP fix would work for anyone. By default, Windows installs with DEP set to, "Turn on DEP for essential Windows programs and services only." The default option should only apply DEP to Windows system binaries. Any other executable, including Sims 3, should be unaffected. For those where the DEP setting made any difference, was your DEP setting different than default to begin with?
This is the same thing my brother said when I told him about it awhile back. I never did mess with it, either. I still get the Access Violation exceptions after crashes, but it's not too often. I remember reading something before, though, about how those crashes are actually the result of bad programming on EA's part. Like mine always says "ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00000000" and according to what I read, that 0x00000000 address is supposed to be only used by Windows and when another program tries to access it, it stops it, causing the exception. Apparently the same problem exists with Spore. I'm not sure if it's right or not since I'm not an expert, but it does kind of make sense.
That Eighties Guy:
Ach, this DEP voodoo magic didn't work for me. If I wasn't so damned tired from work, I'd experiment all night.
Using regular XP, by the way. herp a derp.
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