Ambitions and SURPRISE! - CTDs
Terr:
I'm still experiencing crashes after the latest patch and then Ambitions on XP (32-bit), even after trying every suggestion. It's incredibly frustrating that it seems completely random and neither the event log nor the game's crash logs tell anything useful.
Running without mods or a completely new profile directory doesn't help either. And as no other games I play ever crash, I can't blame it on misconfiguration or hardware error.
Does anyone else have a suggestion, other than waiting for a patch that hopefully solves this?
catsahoy:
Terr, did you rename the Sims 3 folder in my documents? Profile does not specify anything specific to me. But any old pre Ambitions crap in that directory needs to be destroyed (or prevented from being read) so ambitions can regenerate it's own data. Simply bringing in old saves can be buggy as hell, so imagine the CTD fun in store if an old my documents folder was used.
If that's not the problem and you've done both CFF explorer and DEP, a full reinstall is all I can recommend. Again put mods, sims my documents folders and other crap you want into another directory and reinstall the whole thing fresh.
Terr:
I've reinstalled two times now. At the last reinstall I renamed the profile folder and started a new save game. I found out that the base game works fine, and that it starts crashing after installing World Adventures.
I'm going to do one last reinstall skipping WA, start fresh over again and let Amibitions generate the profile directory, like you suggest. For extra thoroughness, I'm going to seek out left over registry entries as well.
*edit*
No dice. Base game works fine, Ambitions makes the game crash around the 15 minute mark (like WA)
jmtmom:
I would assume everyone's already done this, but getting rid of bad CC fixed my crashing problem. It was specifically the creepy TSR doll that attaches itself to Sims3packs.
morgy:
Another thing to look out for is the need for a fresh reinstall. My computer over the weekend had completely died (vid card blew up on me), so I took over my husband's computer (runs so much better than mine anyway with a better vid card and proc.), and installed the base game and all EPs. The game let me create a family, build a lot, edit some cloths. But when it came to running the game (sims interacting, saving), it would crash over and over again. I tried to the DEP fix, that didn't work and then I completely uninstalled the game and reinstalled it, it was the reinstall that ultimately fixed my problems :)
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