Crash to desktop issue
Cunning:
O great and powerful denizens of MATY, hear my plea:
My game (all EPs and SPs up to Town Life Stuff) keeps crashing to desktop. Yes, it's patched to the most recent version, drivers and directx are fully updated, system exceeds required specs etc. I've removed all CC other than awesomemod, and it still happens. I've manually exempted everything sims-related from DEP, and even tried turning off DEP system-wide to no avail. I've memtested my RAM and there are no issues. I've scoured the internet and read what feels like a thousand threads dealing with CTD issues and extracted what limited wisdom there was like a starving man sucking nutrients from mossy rocks, but my game still crashes, seemingly at random. I've tried different hoods and families: same "0xc0000005" issues.
I've just been putting up with it, but I've got "lucky" and saved immediately before a reproducable crash, and it doesn't crash after taking out awesomemod. I doubt awesomemod is at fault, but it may be exposing a problem that the stock game doesn't. How should I proceed to produce something useful for getting to the root of the issue?
Kind regards,
Cunning
System Specifications:
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Windows 7 Home Premum 64 bit
Intel i7-2670QM
4GB RAM
Geforce GTX 580M
Crash event:
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Faulting application name: TS3W.exe, version: 0.2.0.173, time stamp: 0x4f7e77de
Faulting module name: TS3W.exe, version: 0.2.0.173, time stamp: 0x4f7e77de
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0095d48f
Faulting process id: 0x133c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cd520743d388e4
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe
Report Id: fcf8e07c-bdfa-11e1-a994-9cb70d0024ab
wizard_merlin:
So none of the other crash threads were worthy of your very special problem? If you paid attention to the myriad of other crashing threads you would have found the answer you seek.
If as you say, the crash is totally and reliably reproduceable, then if you upload a copy of the save then the mighty FOJ can check it out.
J. M. Pescado:
So, what do you do after loading the save and unpausing to cause it to crash? Nothing? It just crashes even without touching anything? Does it crash if left paused after loading?
Cunning:
I could have tacked it on to someone else's crash thread; noted. As I said, I've gone through every crash thread I could find and followed the recommendations therein. I'm pretty certain it's an issue with this computer, but it's one that is being revealed by AM, and I've gone through all the usual ritual sacrifices to try and sort it out without success.
The save in question crashes about 30 game-minutes after loading, whether I do anything or not. I've since done a clean install on another computer, and it doesn't crash (at least not in the same place), so uploading the save isn't likely to be very helpful.
I'm not asking for someone to magically fix my computer over the internet, what I would like to know is where I should be looking to find out why it's crashing, if that's even possible. I'm fairly technically capable, but I know nothing of how this game works internally. If edumacating me is too much effort then fair enough - I realise enlightening the masses is a above and beyond to be honest, but I thought I'd give it a shot.
Starler:
Can you outline what you have done so far to fix the problem? If so, we can point out what you haven't done.
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