Sims 3 Has Stopped Working

rebekah-a wrote:Is there any reason why my Ultimate Fix would have stopped working? My sims still don't age, and when I try to "testingcheatsenabled" force them to age up, their assigned actions get cancelled, eg. they are in the red needing to sleep, so I send them to bed and it cancels itself, and when it automatically sends them to bed, it does it same.

It crashed after I minimized it to check on this topic

I'm probably just best off uninstalling everything and reinstalling it, hey?

rebekah-a wrote:Hi, sorry to boost such an old thread but I finally got around to doing the steps in that link I was given to try and fix this. 

So far, I've installed the 4GB patch, removed CC (I wasn't sure if this meant I'm not able to actually use CC at all? I took it off and the only difference to the game was that it loaded faster. I didn't play it long enough to see if it crashed or not but either way, I don't really want to play Sims without CC because it's just so ugly and boring haha), and now I'm doing the DEP step. 

As I said before, I'm using a Windows 8 system and I haven't been able to find any .exe files in the /game/bin or any of the folders inside it (they're all "application" file types and I'm terrible with this stuff and have no idea what it means) and copying and pasting the location like it says to just gets me a little pop up saying it's invalid. 

Sorry to be such a pain, I'm just not ready to give up on this game I've spent so much money on over the years, especially when I ONLY use the new computer I've got for it. It's just such a shame and it's so frustrating. 

Can anyone help me out with it?

No, you're not a "pain", but next time, if you can, try updating us earlier on your progress.

Now go to My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 and delete all contents inside the Currentgame.sims3 folder. Also, in My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3, delete the following stuff:



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


Can you completely de-activate your anti-virus program completely. Next, re-do the steps from #2 to #4, even if you are "sure" you have done that correctly, before: https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t1171-must-read-how-to-install-the-sims-3-correctly

Press the Windows key + E; and then go on to C:\Program files(x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin, where you should paste the two files from the #crack-folder of the "Ultimate fix".

Next, what exactly does your error message say, when you try pasting the files to the base game location ? Can you even post a screenshot of that error maybe ?

OK, if you really manage to apply the latest manual patch and Ultimate fix correctly, then re-start the game again, and see if anything improved.

If you can't seem to do that; then download and install a program called "TeamViewer", from here (if you still don't have that): http://www.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS.exe

Contact me via PM, if you want, so that I can temporarily take contol of your computer, and try fixing this. Again, PM me for specifics.


Good luck for now !