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

Cat comes back from work and causes this error for me ✌🏻

Having the same issue, game loads fine, manged to make the game full screen, created a family in CAS, loading back into neighbourhood, and it crashed with the same message as everyone else, reloaded the game and was able to play with the family i created in CAS and afterwards no problems so far. However I did look through the files saved and mine came up with access violation, brought it through EA app, wish we could verify game files like steam 

also having this same issue it was fine yesterday but can’t even make it two minutes into gameplay now without it crashing 

same here. I was so happy when the announced the comeback of sims and sims 2. So disappointed right now. Paid enough money to be able to play again, even though I have all cd's from sims 2 at home...

I have the same one but when I try to join a world it crashes every time 

For me its when i'm in build/buy. I can open the game fine then it will crash all of a sudden

Same. Once while going into edit a beach lot and in CAS. 

Same issue... my cat just came from work and then game is crashed

So small temporary fix that works for me and I hope it helps some of you: 

I found this form, if you are trying to at least get it to launch: [SOLVED] DirectX 9 error when launching The Sims 2 Legacy Collection | EA Forums - 11851137

So you will need to put a -w at the end of the file. Right click The Sims 2 desktop icon and click on Properties. After the quotation mark put a space then type -w after and apply. You may need to delete and type in again to apply. I had to do it at least three times to get my game to work. 

After I was able to get in I played with the Graphics/Performance Options of the game. I put the screen size to 1680x1050 and the game has been working for me. I was able to create a family without it crashing so far.  I've been able to change all of the settings to high and so far it's been playable.   I hope EA will fix the files so we don't have to go through this rigamarole. But I hope it helps. 

I do  as well and on top of that my game is full of bugs and unplayable in certain ways :(