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chlorgie
Seasoned Novice
5 days ago
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Sims 2 legacy keeps crashing

Since the latest patch the game has become unplayable for me :(. Whenever I go to CAS I get a “The game has crashed, application will now terminate” message. I also get the message whenever I load into any pre existing family. I was so excited for this rerelease because I really love this game, but it’s sadly become unplayable.

  • ok try this because it worked for me and I was having the same issues. Go to any unoccupied house/build mode, go to your graphic setting and turn off the shadow setting. It was the first one on my page. once I did that it finally let me play. for how long one will never know but so far so good.

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  • l6xx02z1kcm4's avatar
    l6xx02z1kcm4
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 days ago

    I'm getting the same message any time I try to load a household in any world, whether I've played them or not.  I repaired the game, and it's the exact same.  I even tried a suggestion someone said in a different forum about moving the folder out to desktop so it has to create a new one.  Nothing.  

    Genuinely created an EA forums account to report it, because like you said, completely unplayable. 😒

  • I'm having the same issues. First it started small, made a man and dog and the dog didn't show up. so, I adopted one from the streets. When this one came home from work it crashed everything but at least I was playing. Now it doesn't matter what family I click on it crashes straight away. I try to download the graphic designer everyone was talking about, but it couldn't find my game file. I deleted caches and everything I could think of but now I'm at my wit ends because nothing is working even that 4g fix. I go to the threads that says the bug is fix but it's all computer issues like a restart nothing that points to their internal issues.

  • ok try this because it worked for me and I was having the same issues. Go to any unoccupied house/build mode, go to your graphic setting and turn off the shadow setting. It was the first one on my page. once I did that it finally let me play. for how long one will never know but so far so good.

  • chlorgie's avatar
    chlorgie
    Seasoned Novice
    3 days ago

    Thats why I created an EA forums account too 😭

  • chlorgie's avatar
    chlorgie
    Seasoned Novice
    3 days ago

    Thank you so much!! I tried this and it's finally working now. I hope they still do something so the game can be played on higher resolution, but for now, it's working! Thanks!

  • BrutalOverkill's avatar
    BrutalOverkill
    Seasoned Novice
    2 days ago

    Oh, you're so welcome as soon as I tried it I came back to you. It's still deleting the people I make and I'm still having issues, but I get to play the already made people so that's a plus. 

  • Zorinia_ttv's avatar
    Zorinia_ttv
    Newcomer
    16 hours ago

    Thank you so much! This worked!!!! The game is playable again! <3

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