The sims 3 has stopped working

samantha8982 wrote:almost, I will be getting some ram upgrades soon if my computer takes more than 8gb of ram.

samantha8982 wrote:The crashing has started again, I have not touched any of my settings in sims 3 so I don't see what the change was that started it off again.

Hello there,

First of all, go to My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 and delete all contents in the folder Currentgame.sims3.

Now if you start the game, does the crashing randomnly or when you do specific things ?

Maybe you could even try shortening your playing sessions, and then exiting the game for a while before continuing. My playing sessions never last longer than an hour, although my desktop computer can easily handle the game with all expansions and all store content.

So maybe try playing for about half an hour ("real-life time"), then exit the game shortly.

Beyond that, I'm afraid there is nothing much left I can tell you.  

samantha8982 wrote:it tends to happen when in live mode. I can spend as long as I like in edit town and cas but as soon as I select live mode it crashes within 3 minutes so if I were to start a new game and go straight into live mode and avoid cas it would crash within minutes.

samantha8982 wrote:the other sims helper on here got me to do that ages ago as well as the DEP trick. It's not happening every time I play but it's still a problem I want help with anyway. Also I am also having trouble with infinite load screens it tends to happen when loading a save or travelling in time to the present, it does not happen every time but it's happened 3 times today. I usually don't play for more than 30 minutes because my computer gets quite hot.