Game crashes 5 mins after starting

aegyo wrote:So I installed the new ultimate fix a few hours ago and my game starts smoothly, then after around 5 minutes it crashes ("The sims 3 has stopped working blah blah").
I added the sims 3 .exe files to the DEP, I made sure my graphic card is running the latest drivers and all that stuff.
So then I took out The Sims 3 folder from my documents to start a fresh game and yup, it ran perfectly. Then I imagined something must be wrong with my Mods folder, so I tried copying it and moving it in that fresh game's files. Still ran perfectly smooth. Now I have no idea what could be causing this problem, what should I do?

Carlos G. wrote:
So you put the "Mods" folder back into your new "The Sims 3"-folder; and did I understand correctly: everything is working again ?

If yes, then one reason why this could have happened is the cache files (My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3):


-CASPartCache.package
-compositorCache.package
-scriptCache.package
-simCompositorCache.package
-socialCache.package
-plus the contents of the folders "WorldCaches" & "Thumbnails"

These things should be deleted regularly, but especially after (un-)installing expansion & stuff packs, mods & custom content or when patching the base game. In some cases it's even necessary to do that after updating your graphics drivers.

Fields wrote:Have you updated the mods?

aegyo wrote:Umm...
I put the "Mods" folder into that new folder, yes, but I still played that new game, didn't start my old saves and stuff WITHOUT my CC (because I don't wanna mess up my CC there hehe...)
And I delete my cache files almost every time before starting the game, so this isn't the problem.

Carlos G. wrote:
Then put back in the folder "Saves" into your new "The Sims 3"-folder, to see if you can get it working. If not, then you go inside the folder Saves, then you back-up the sub-folder (Name of your savefile).sims3, then delete it. You then rename the folder (Name of your savefile).sims3.backup into ------------------------->(Name of your savefile).sims3 (=so you only remove the backup ending in the folder's name).