My game was working JUST FINE on my gaming laptop when i purchased the day of the re release of TS1 & TS2 . Now only the sims 1 runs and not the sims 2. now i cant even load my families or even get into CAS
. the same error code : "Direct3D returned an error; D3RDERR_INVALIDCALL! The application will now terminate."
Anyone receiving this same error message.. any way to fix this?
(Possible Solution/Temporary Fix)
Go to an unoccupied lot (community lot or unoccupied residential, it needs to have no sims, CAS has sims) and disable shadows in the game's settings. Then you should be able to load lots with sims without crashing.
This solution was made by a Redditor named: Mysterious_Potential
(It worked for me, might work for you all too) It stinks no longer having any shadow effects in game since that was really cool, but it's a temporary fix to stop the crashing at least) Hope EA sees this, I believe there is definitely an issue with Shadow Effects causing the crashes with Sims, odd how a lot can load fine with Shadows but CAS and any Households with Sims fails and cannot load, so it must be a problem with Shadows on only sims themselves, with empty lots being fine.
