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

Mine just did this while I was playing on a vacation lot. The create-a-sim worked, but it's crashed twice now after placing my sim in a lot and sending her on vacation. For $60 AUD, I would have expected they worked out these bugs before hand! What is EA thinking by releasing broken games..... 

Yep - ridiculous I experience the exact same error and application crash right after create a family. Please fix this immediately EA!!! 

On my end, it kept crashing multiple times during the Create-a-Sim. I've looked for multiple ways to troubleshoot, but nothing would work. It just kept crashing. Until I stumbled upon a Reddit thread mentioning to turn off shadows in-game. Mine were on highest resolution.  Once turned off, it worked, game stopped crashing. Even turned medium resolution shadows and game keeps going. I've played for the past 2 hours and no issues since. 👌

If I bought the games through EA, can I still get them on Steam? Or would I have to buy it again?

Literally how do we fix it?!

Same issue! Right after character creation.. 

My sims 2 did good for 6 hrs now it crashing

Same here i saved right before my cat comes home from work and now it's crashing everytime they come home. It's unplayable now

Same here.. 😒 

I don't even get to make it to the main menu any more 🥲