Sims 2 Legacy crash with no error code
The game randomly crashes with no warning and no error code associated with it. There is no lagging before the crash it just closes itself. This will happen within minutes or opening the game, after 20-30 minutes, or after 1-2 hours. It gets worse if I try to open the game again after it crashes.
This is what I have tried to fix it but nothing has worked:
- No mods or CC installed Disabled
- “Optimizations for windowed games”
- Turned shadows off
- Regenerated Sims 2 user folder
- Forced NVIDIA GPU usage in Windows graphics settings
- Added Windows Defender exclusions
- Tested administrator mode
- Applied 4GB Patch to Sims2EP9.exe
- Installed DXVK (d3d9.dll, dxgi.dll)
- Switched from NVIDIA Game Ready Driver → Studio Driver
- Closed ASUS/Armoury Crate background services
- Switched ASUS GPU mode from Hybrid/Standard → Ultimate (dGPU only)
- Deleted Sims 2 cache/thumbnails files
- Added Sims 2 profile in NVIDIA Control Panel
- Capped FPS to 58 Set Power Management Mode → Prefer Maximum Performance
- Enabled VSync
- Repaired the game through EA App
- removed Sims 2 folder and created a new one
This has been happening for months. I did not have this issue when it first came out, but after the last 2 updates this started happening.
