zettaira Please go here:
C:\Users\your username\Saved Games\Electronic Arts
and move the "The Sims 25" folder to the desktop. This will reset all your in-game progress but hopefully remove some data that is making the game crash too.
Rakeeya Do you know what a LiveKernelEvent 141 is? Your dxdiag lists four, and even one would be sufficient reason to DDU the driver. If you want to use the same version of the driver, go right ahead, but this error means the current one needs to come put.
I've looked at over a hundred dxdiags since this game was released, and only a handful of them had this particular error. That includes all the dxdiags posted by people with in-game crashes—most of them have Sims.exe AppHangB1 errors or AppCrash errors with a generic access violation. And even the others who've disabled VOX and stopped the crashing don't typically have a single LKE 141 error.
If you're satisfied with the results you're getting after disabling VOX, go right ahead and keep using that workaround. And I can't tell you that these errors are even happening during Sims 1. But they ARE happening, and they shouldn't be, ever, which means that something is wrong in the driver pipeline.
It was a temporary fix. I was able to play a new sim for about 4 hours before its constantly crashing after less than 10 seconds.
