The Sims 3 has stopped working - Windows or computer problem?
Iolanthe:
I've had this problem all along. Turning off the internet (and any unnecessary programmes running in the background) and setting autosave to 20 minutes or so helps. The Crash Log Analyser says it's due to insufficient memory, though. How much memory have you got? I only have 2 Gb and am planning to upgrade to 4 Gb shortly.
wizard_merlin:
Quote from: Iolanthe on 2012 March 13, 00:00:19
I've had this problem all along. Turning off the internet (and any unnecessary programmes running in the background) and setting autosave to 20 minutes or so helps. The Crash Log Analyser says it's due to insufficient memory, though. How much memory have you got? I only have 2 Gb and am planning to upgrade to 4 Gb shortly.
That doesn't always help. Pes has already said the game is only 32-bit, therefore the amount of memory the games sees and uses is irrelevant as it won't go above the 32-bit limit, so you can still run out of memory.
Skadi:
Quote from: Beldara on 2012 March 12, 23:25:47
I've personally been having the random ctd happening before I got showtime, so it's not something new and bad they've just introduced, their code has always been sloppy ;D
I have an nvidia gtx 470 and it randomly locks up and then it makes a clicking noise and all the lag catches up. Pretty sure it's on its last legs. I pulled everything out a few weeks ago and cleaned out the heatsink etc, you could have fried an egg on the cpu it was so bad. I am pretty convinced my CTD's are caused by my motherboard/gfx card getting old and failing. I plan on rebuilding my pc from scratch in the next few weeks so it will be interesting to see how it fares on a beefy new rig.
The FPS Limiter would probably do you a world of good. Since there is no Vsync in TS3 many GPUs fry themselves running as fast as they can. Mine would regularly hit 100'c without the FPS limiter. I use the 3booter/fps limiter found here: http://moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15585.0.html
Beldara:
Skadi thanks for the tip.
For the first time ever, my pc did not sound like a jet engine about to take off trying to load the game.
I'd often wondered why it seemed to be having so much trouble with Sims when it can cope with other, far more graphic intensive games more easily.
Skadi:
My first clue was when it would run Crysis okay, but shit itself at TS3. Very bad coding.
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