So, Jezzer, thanks for your VERY helpful comment. I love when you guys take the time to give us normals so much attention. Obviously nothing better to do. At least Wizard gave me an answer, even with the silly little closer that was meant to make him feel big and me small but just made me feel a little sad and very thankful.

I suspected it was the patch since it occurred after I had installed it and only when playing the game. However, if it's a hardware failure like you're suggesting I'm obviously looking in the wrong direction. Do you have any specific idea of what it could be? I'm not really looking forward to bringing the computer to a computer store to have it dissected without knowing the probable cause and whether they'd actually fix it.

There were no issues at all yesterday when the game was on for a few hours in the afternoon and most of the evening, but today the computer shut down (again without warning) only an hour in and it had been on for maybe 1-1.5 hours prior to starting the game. It's so unpredictable and my knowledge of computer hardware is limited, making it difficult to figure out what's going on.

It also appears that the last fundraising did not quite meet the quota needed? Apparently since the site is still going, someone would have made up the needed difference. If I donate, would my donation go to the next years' need, or just help to make up the last years' need that someone fulfilled temporarily until the money came in?

Why not? Is it because it annoys the Alphatards, or because you're afraid that the shock of getting a helpful answer might just kill her?

I noticed something after I put awesome mod in my game. After I introduce my teen sim to adult or elder they are not able to speak with each other autonomous. They just stand there. I think its the same with child and adult. But it work fine when they are conversing autonomous with parents (family). Maybe because they already know each other from start. I tested that with new game.

Sita, it's part of the I heart the Fifties set, but I don't think it's available separately. This is the only link I found:

https://app.box.com/shared/aajzq0bdjd

You really should check your computer stats to make sure it can run TS3.

Darkwolf Jr. was have [sic] computer problems and we have not heard from him in over 5 months.

I've been playing Sims 3 on Windows 8.1 like I always do from previous versions of Windows and there's not a single problem caused by Windows. If you get any errors, it's the game.

WCIF a link of an updated collections for all of the ts3 store items? The thread on this forum hasn't been updated for months (or years?). If nobody know, then alright, I'll just go and fuck myself somewhere.

Does anyone have untouched Sims3Packs of these sets?:

- CuriousBathSet (Through The Spyglass Bathroom Set)
- EDGYFutureShockNSOSET (The Final Frontier Set)

Thanks in advance.

Is there a mod for the Sims 3 that prevents CTDs? It's getting to the point where I just can't play the Sims anymore.