Crashing to the desktop

Hello, I am layolan and i've made an account here explicitly to ask for the help of my Sims 3 superiors. The powers that be, if you will.

Anywho, i've been having this problem since installing my Sims 3 and the Expansion packs and i'm not entirely sure what is causing it. I've applied many fixes that i've found around these forums and i've still yet to see very much improvement. 

I've currently tried these things: 

1) Setting the compatibility mode to Windows XP (SP2)
2) Adding my files to the DEP menu
3) Applying the Ultimate Fix
4) Applying the 4GB fix
5) Deleting the cache

None of these things proved effective in combating my problems. When I open up the Sims 3 Crash Log analyzer it gives me the error: Max Memory Used - Try To Reduce Memory Usage By Lowering Your Settings.

This crash normally appears randomly. I haven't exactly found a precise source for the crash, but I know that I can get about an hour of gameplay in before it freezes/crashes. The second to last time it happened, my Sim was cooking food. The last time, my Sim was driving home from work. This has also happened another time before in the Character Creation menu, but that never happened again (as I rushed through it). This phenomena is extremely confusing to me as i've searched almost every fix and it still hasn't worked. I just really want to avoid re-installing everything again as it takes a LOT of time out of my day.

This shouldn't be a problem as I am currently running EIGHT gigabytes of RAM on my computer and have 300gb of hard disk space remaining. I've already allocated four gigs to Sims 3 and it hasn't done anything. 

This crash normally appears randomly. I haven't exactly found a precise source for the crash, but I know that I can get about an hour of gameplay in before it freezes/crashes. The second to last time it happened, my Sim was cooking food. The last time, my Sim was driving home from work. This has also happened another time before in the Character Creation menu, but that never happened again (as I rushed through it). This phenomena is extremely confusing to me as i've searched almost every fix and it still hasn't worked. I just really want to avoid re-installing everything again as it takes a LOT of time out of my day.


Here are my computer stats:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Nvidia GeForce GTX 650Ti
AMD Phenom 9950 Quad-Core Processor
8 gigabytes of RAM

It should also be mentioned that I am running a 64x system as well. 

My current expansions on Sims 3 include:
1) The Base Game (of course)
2) World Adventures
3) Ambitions
4) Generations
5) Town Life Stuff
6) Pets
7) Supernatural
8 ) Seasons
9) 70's 80's 90's stuff 
10) University Life
11) Island Paradise

If you higher-minds would be so nice as to help me on my path to finally freeing my Sims from this oppressive shackle, I would be extremely grateful and indebted to you. I've been craving this game for ages.

EDIT::

I am currently not running ANY mods.

Are all your drivers up to date, especially your video?

deblake60 wrote:Are all your drivers up to date, especially your video?

Yeah, they should be. I always keep that stuff up to date to receive performance boosts and whatnot.. 

cat2006house wrote:

layolan wrote:

deblake60 wrote:Are all your drivers up to date, especially your video?

Yeah, they should be. I always keep that stuff up to date to receive performance boosts and whatnot.. 

Hello,

Can you disable in-game store in "Options" when you are running The Sims 3 to reduce crashes?

Okay, i'll try this. Do you think that this crash is just a periodical thing that isn't really related to anything except Sims completely incompatible programming?

EDIT: Actually.. this seemed to help immensely. Thanks. Been playing it for the past 3 hours with no crashes