Sims 2 Legacy : 'Application has crashed, application will now terminate.'

I have to admit, I applied the work around suggested by SpicySpaghett posted a new reply on 2025-02-12 07:58 AM for this very issue... basically turning off the shadows, and that worked!  Well, it was a little more involved than that...  I was in a community lot, made the change to remove the shadows, then I saved the lot and exited, but then I made the mistake of playing an occupied lot, which worked at first, but then I got a different error and crashed, so when I went back in, the original crash issue reemerged.  What I figured out is that after following SpicySpaghett's steps, you need to close out of The Sims, which saves that setting universally.  Now, when I go back in, I can play my sims in a lot without this same issue occurring.

Now, the game still crashes later on, but that is a completely different issue, and a different post.  As for this specific error message, I would say SpicySpaghett fixed it.  Thanks!