Anyone else finding that their game will crash without warning after the new update? In the past whenever I've experienced the game crashing it has always come up with some variation of an error message and then I have to close it. This time the game loads generally fine (other than being a bit slow when The Sims 2 loading screen is displayed), it allows me to pick a world and start playing with a household and then without warning the screen will go black and the game shuts down. Then I'm left with the EA App still loaded like nothing had happened. This only started happening when I updated the game yesterday.

I had this happen to me once and it scared the living lights out of me. I will say I have not had it happen again. But I just make sure to periodically save my game just to make sure I don't lose a ton of progress. Esp now that my sims family has like 4 kids total.. Which has been a nightmare to manage.

same problem the game loads fine then playing like an hour in or so the Game Crashes without warning and left with the EA App still loaded like nothing had happened it start happening after the update.

Having same exact issue ever since the latest update! I can sometimes get in and do a couple actions before it crashes but other times nothing - have tried to repair game in EA app to no avail :(

crashes after 20 minutes for me, you get no error so I have no idea what the problem is, haven't tested without cc, as if it is a mods problem going to take forever to find out what is the issue, wasn't happening before and haven't added anything new in over a month odd. It is very frustrating.

I have experienced that, but only when I haven't cleared the cache. In your Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Legacy folder you may see two files called "accessory.cache" and "groups.cache" You can delete those two files, the game will automatically regenerate them. I find clearing them out periodically has helped stave off crashes in my game.

Game Crashes (without warning or error message)

17 Replies

effiejae
Seasoned Hotshot
3 months ago
I have experienced that, but only when I haven't cleared the cache. In your Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Legacy folder you may see two files called "accessory.cache" and "groups.cache" You can delete those two files, the game will automatically regenerate them. I find clearing them out periodically has helped stave off crashes in my game.
sabrina1cat111
Seasoned Rookie
3 months ago
same problem the game loads fine then playing like an hour in or so the Game Crashes without warning and left with the EA App still loaded like nothing had happened it start happening after the update.
oh_ryxn_x
Seasoned Traveler
3 months ago
I had this happen to me once and it scared the living lights out of me. I will say I have not had it happen again. But I just make sure to periodically save my game just to make sure I don't lose a ton of progress. Esp now that my sims family has like 4 kids total.. Which has been a nightmare to manage.
antisocialanp
New Novice
3 months ago
Having same exact issue ever since the latest update! I can sometimes get in and do a couple actions before it crashes but other times nothing - have tried to repair game in EA app to no avail :(
jhirdy130
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
I also have this, Game plays fine otherwise and finally allows me to use High shadows (I too get a long wait before the loading screen does anything initially), but at random times the game just instantly closes down... no error message or crash message - just back to desktop/EA App. I thought it may have been some CC/Mods but have tried with and without this and it seems I'm not the only one... Hope this can get fixed! :)
jhirdy130
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago
Just to add to this as of the new patch, I'm now getting red flashing "T" poses before the inevitable crash... seems more consistent now than before - every 3 or 4 days a "crash" will happen
tracetraceau
Seasoned Traveler
2 months ago
crashes after 20 minutes for me, you get no error so I have no idea what the problem is, haven't tested without cc, as if it is a mods problem going to take forever to find out what is the issue, wasn't happening before and haven't added anything new in over a month odd. It is very frustrating.
oh_ryxn_x
Seasoned Traveler
2 months ago
Still getting crashes when my sim goes to downtown locations and tries to go go home. Thats when it keeps crashing 😭
siladria
New Novice
2 months ago
Adding my support here also. This started happening to me yesterday. I also play on steam.
tracetraceau
Seasoned Traveler
2 months ago
On my end it is definitely a mod or cc as I tested game with no mods and it didn't crash at all, so I started going through my mods late last night, I am about 60% and so far no crashing, I created a new Downloads folder and put old one on my desktop and slowly going through the folder.