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rysholt76
Seasoned Novice
1 month ago
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Sims 2 crashing without warning when entering game

The last two days i have tried to play the sims 2. Up until now it has worked just fine. But yesterday when i entered a world and started my household the game just shuts down without any error code or warning. Just goes straight back to home screen. And the game is not running in the background either. 

 When i try to open the game again from the ea app the sims 2 icon is not "reacting" the same way as the other games in my library. Normally when you hover the mouse over the game icon the area highlights and you are able to click on it to play the game. Sims 2 does not do that and i cannot enter the menu of the game to press play game. 

This makes me believe that it's not my computer that has a problem at the moment. This has never happened before. Is this happening to anyone else?

  • I figured it out! It was the lot that for some reason forced my game to shut down. I placed the "camping" apartment lot in my own world and apparently that was enough to ruin everything 🫣 I made my own apartments and now it's smooth sailing with my sim 😎

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  • sabene45's avatar
    sabene45
    Rising Newcomer
    1 month ago

    How did you even get into the game to fix what happened? Mine won't let me in and I have no idea what I might have done to crash it. I was building a house, which I've done a thousand times, and when I went to save it it crashed and won't let me back in even to the neighborhood tab.

  • rysholt76's avatar
    rysholt76
    Seasoned Novice
    1 month ago

    I figured it out! It was the lot that for some reason forced my game to shut down. I placed the "camping" apartment lot in my own world and apparently that was enough to ruin everything 🫣 I made my own apartments and now it's smooth sailing with my sim 😎

  • Hi :) 
    I don't have the game from the app so my information is old school: iirc - this was a time when you need to clean your .cache files - the Groups.cache and Accessory. cache:  and also check on your log folder and delete the ... Oh, uh- the error files there. It usually makes an error file but I'm not sure if it is from the no start/silent quit. :) 
    Good luck. :)

  • rysholt76's avatar
    rysholt76
    Seasoned Novice
    1 month ago

    I know it doesn't. English isn't my first language and i'm not sure how else to describe it. 😁 But it's the menu in the ea app. Where you press play. But i attached a video showing what i was trying to say 🫣

    I'm playing on the same computer i have always played on - it's a Lenovo ThinkPad and is by no standard a gamer pc. But it has always worked surprisingly good for all sims games  ✔️

     

  • Dustlex's avatar
    Dustlex
    Seasoned Veteran
    1 month ago

    Hirysholt76​

    Sims 2 does not have its own menu in the EA app - you can only click directly on Play and do not have a menu like you do in Sims 3, for example.

    Regarding the crash: Are you playing on an IBM Thinkpad?

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