Ambitions and SURPRISE! - CTDs
janedivided:
I spent half an hour trying to figure out what was crashing my game before I checked here, and duh, adding it to the DEP list fixed it. So thanks for the reminder and saving me god knows how many more hours of frustration.
gelfling:
Quote from: Claeric on 2010 June 01, 21:06:45
From what I'm hearing people are actually having little to no issues with ambitions. No bugs, no nothing. So while crashing to desktop sucks, at least it's not widespread and you can prevent it.
I have Ambitions running on my Windows 7 x64 PC without issue thus far. I applied the 4Gb patch at the outset and have never needed to bother about with DEP.
Tangie:
The first thing I tried was to use CFF Explorer to increase the 2GB limit on the EP02 exe file, but that didn't fix the problem for me. Not until I added the EP02 file to my DEP exception list in my Windows system folder did my crashing stop. I'm using a laptop with Windows 7, an i7 processor, and have 6 GB of RAM.
StormchaserOne:
Glad to hear you are using CFF it was the only program I could find which almost stopped all DEP crashes. EA just found out and are trying to fix ASAP. Since many many customers are complaining it is the only game which crashes. The most bought Windows 7 is 64 bit and EA is clueless.
Klinn:
Just another data point: Two days ago my system ran the base game + WA just fine. A fresh completely vanilla install of retail base+WA+Ambitions led to game freezes every few seconds and crashes after a few minutes.
No CC, not even EA store items, no mods at all, started completely fresh with a brand new family in Twinbrook. Even moved all the previous user data, caches, and saves etc out of the My Documents folder, so anything in there is also freshly created.
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 a complete freeze, even the trees and other graphical effects halt. Lots of audio problems too, such as popping and dropping sounds, but I suppose this is likely tied to the same issue.
I'm going to try a new game in Sunset Valley next, but not holding out much hope for improvement.
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