Ambitions and SURPRISE! - CTDs
Death-Jester:
I've got a brand new install of S3, with HELS and Ambitions. The only content I have installed is official EA store stuff, via a modified launcher (using the instructions on this site).
I have had a few crashes, not too many (maybe half a dozen in the 15 or so hours play time). However, I recently had my Sim visit Egypt. I have a save from before I travelled, and one from after. So far, my game has crashed 3 times since visiting Egypt, all within about 5 minutes of loading up the new new area. I have done the same thing each time: Travelled to Egypt, gone to the market, and bought loads of stuff (books, cameras, food etc.) It's just a straight CTD - no errors - and it happens suddenly (no slowdown in game, and the hard drive isn't working any harder). It's like I just Alt-F4'd out. My DEP settings are the default to Windows (running Win 7 x64 by the way).
I'll try using CFF Explorer and changing the settings, see if that helps.
Edit: Since I used CFF Explorer, I have had no CTDs at all.
nekochanpurr:
Reinstalling was no help whatsoever. Ugh.
ingeli:
I also had frequent CTDs on my w7-machine (with all the expansions and the stuff pack installed). FPS-limiter was the only thing that helped, in my case. Now the game seems stable.
Klinn:
Quote from: Buzzler on 2010 June 02, 15:02:24
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.
Thanks for the suggestion, but if I recall those previous threads, the symptoms were slightly different. Sims and cars etc were frozen, but the ambient graphical effects such the SpeedTree movement still continued. My game was completely frozen. I tried your advice anyway, using Twallan's SuperComputer to reset all. No difference, same freezes and still getting crashes.
However, I finally noticed that the Ambitions installer messed up. Before installing the EP, it checks and updates the base game. But it either doesn't check if WA needs updating or the check failed because WA was still back at its original version number. Naturally, that didn't work well with the other up-to-date bits. I then reinstalled from scratch, patching manually at each step, and the crashes are gone. No DEP fiddling or 4GB tweak needed.
No crashes, but I was still getting frequent freezes. Updated the nVidia video drivers and those are gone too.
nekochanpurr:
The DEP thing fixed it after I reinstalled. I don't know why it wouldn't take the first time but... Hey, as long as it works!
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