Will I be able to play TS3 ever again?
To make it short: I've been playing TS3 for a week now, having a blast, yadayadayada. Usually my games are heavily moded, however, this time I wanted to Keep things as vanilla as possible so I settled with a handful of nraas mods to enhance the Overall Performance and stability: Mastercontroller, Story Progression, ErrorTrap, Overwatch, Relativity, Retuner, Traveler and GoHere.
My rig: CPU: 6700k (OC), GPU: 1080 GTX (OC), 32 GB DDR4, 500 gb SSD, Win 10 OS.
Every piece of dlc but maybe two stuff packs were installed.
No CC (no clothing, objects, custom worlds etc.).
So what happened you might ask. As I said: I started my game in Starlight Shores, had a job as a lifeguard for two weeks, went to the future, returned with a cat + plumbot + a new sim. Back in Starlight Shores I decided it was a good idea to go to university with my plumbot. After the turn was over (2 sem.) both of my sims were about to return home, however, during the loading screen the game began to crash. All the time.
What I did to try to fix it: I repaired the game, I completely wiped the "The sims 3" folder from the "my documents/electronicarts"-directory, used CCcleaner, uninstalled Origin, redownloaded everything at least 3 times (well, thankfully my internet is fast so it was no issue) etc.
Nothing helped. The game always crashed when I wanted to travel (either to Paris, to University or to the Future). Even on a fresh install. On a newly created save-file.
I am sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. I just don't see a reason why the game could be behaving this way. I mean, I didn't add anything new to it anyway. And it does not matter if I use mods or leave them out, it does not affect the game in this regard.
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Today I tried something new --> I "fiddled around" with the compatibility settings of TS3.exe file itself. I set it to Windows XP. And at this point everything went downhill even futher.
Now when I click the play button on the launcher it closes itself immediately and nothing happens. In other words: The game won't even start.
Again: I completely wiped everything remotely related to TS3 on my HDD. Reinstalled everything, downloaded everything but NOTHING helps. TS3 won't start anymore.
How can this possibly happen?
Will I be able to play TS3 ever again?
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Edit: For the records: Other games on origin such as TS4, Mass Effect, Fifa etc. still work without a problem. I can use VR on my rig, Steam works fine.
My rig: CPU: 6700k (OC), GPU: 1080 GTX (OC), 32 GB DDR4, 500 gb SSD, Win 10 OS.
Every piece of dlc but maybe two stuff packs were installed.
No CC (no clothing, objects, custom worlds etc.).
So what happened you might ask. As I said: I started my game in Starlight Shores, had a job as a lifeguard for two weeks, went to the future, returned with a cat + plumbot + a new sim. Back in Starlight Shores I decided it was a good idea to go to university with my plumbot. After the turn was over (2 sem.) both of my sims were about to return home, however, during the loading screen the game began to crash. All the time.
What I did to try to fix it: I repaired the game, I completely wiped the "The sims 3" folder from the "my documents/electronicarts"-directory, used CCcleaner, uninstalled Origin, redownloaded everything at least 3 times (well, thankfully my internet is fast so it was no issue) etc.
Nothing helped. The game always crashed when I wanted to travel (either to Paris, to University or to the Future). Even on a fresh install. On a newly created save-file.
I am sorry, but this does not make any sense to me. I just don't see a reason why the game could be behaving this way. I mean, I didn't add anything new to it anyway. And it does not matter if I use mods or leave them out, it does not affect the game in this regard.
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Today I tried something new --> I "fiddled around" with the compatibility settings of TS3.exe file itself. I set it to Windows XP. And at this point everything went downhill even futher.
Now when I click the play button on the launcher it closes itself immediately and nothing happens. In other words: The game won't even start.
Again: I completely wiped everything remotely related to TS3 on my HDD. Reinstalled everything, downloaded everything but NOTHING helps. TS3 won't start anymore.
How can this possibly happen?
Will I be able to play TS3 ever again?
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Edit: For the records: Other games on origin such as TS4, Mass Effect, Fifa etc. still work without a problem. I can use VR on my rig, Steam works fine.
