New Pc & Sims 3 crashing to desktop

"igazor;c-17825944" wrote:
I have never heard it said that formal graphics card recognition is no longer a thing or is somehow mythical. I'm sorry, but for TS3 that is not true and there hasn't been a meaningful update (patch) to the game since Jan 2014. The 1.69 Origin tie-in patch doesn't really count as meaningful in this context.
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It's true. I never edit that file, haven't done in many years. The first time you boot up the sims it tells you its self "your graphics card is newer than the ones listed so you've been defaulted to high settings". That's the first pop-up you see. The game automatically assumes your GPU is better than the last one listed.

I do remember needing to edit that file at one point, but it was so long ago I can't remember when exactly it changed. Many, many years. I am on .69 but it was way before then, pretty sure one of the .4X's

"piddlesim;c-17825804" wrote:
Thanks for the reply.

As far as the graphics card.... I tried the method of getting my graphics card recognized because of the crashing. Many people with windows 10 have said that it has stopped their games from crashing. Sadly my game still is.

I tried a repair of the game. That did not work.

I uninstalled the game and then reinstalled everything. The game generated a whole new folder. Nothing in it but the game itself. No store content at all. It is still crashing to desktop.

I reinstalled direct X, no help there either.

I read several posts on the official microsoft forums. It seems like many people are having this crashing issue ( not just with the sims ) after a recent windows 10 series of updates. Games that ran fine are all of a sudden crashing for no reason, no changes made to them.

Since I did install a whole bunch of windows 10 updates when I bought this pc 2 days ago, I am wondering if I too am infected by whatever is causing problems for other games too.

I plan to keep trouble shooting. Hopefully find some kind of a solution.

16 gigs of ram and an 8 gig graphics card should not have issues playing a game. Hehe just my luck that it does.

Thanks again for the reply! Much appreciated!

Hmm very strange. You say you're limiting fps through nvidia, maybe that's not taking. Force vsync & try installing RivaTuner Statistics Server, and have FPS counter turned on, and limit to 60fps.

As someone else mentioned, definitely uninstall gamebar. I've known that to crash some games, not sims 3 for me personally but it used to crash mass effect for me. So worth a try.

Also have you played other games? Particularly CPU-Intensive ones? Is it just the sims crashing or are they crashing too? Might narrow the problem down.

Also, disable Origin overlay go into origin settings and disable it for in-game, or if you're using steam version disable steam overlay just for the sims.