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@Fanta_exotic12 Let's try to lower the stress on the game engine as much as possible. Use the version of the save where you ran the MC reset already.
- Empty out your sims' inventories as much as is reasonable. Having a few items is fine, but not much more.
- Save the game immediately before you want your sims to travel.
- Exit to the Main Menu and lower all the graphics settings to the minimum. Turn off the in-game shopping experience and the interactive loading screens as well, then quit to desktop.
- Delete the five cache files in your user folder again.
- Take your computer completely offline. If you play through the EA App, you can sign in and put it in offline mode before disconnecting your computer and launching the game.
- Load the game, and once the clock has run for a few sim-minutes, send your sims traveling right away.
- Once they arrive in their destination, use "save as" to rename the save, then quit. If you want, you can first exit to the Main Menu and raise the graphics settings again, but be sure to quit to desktop before reloading the save.
It's a good idea to use "save as" (again) to rename the save before traveling, so you have the original as backup should you need it again. There's always a chance your sims get stuck on vacation, with the game refusing to load the homeworld just as it's refusing to load the vacation world now. So this way, you can revert to the backup if necessary, and all you'll lose is the time you spent playing through the vacation.
If this doesn't help, please load your save again, put Sims 3 in windowed mode, open the Task Manager, and see how much RAM the game is using. Play forward for a few sim-minutes, then send your sims traveling, and watch RAM use. Let me know what you find, both the initial value and how it changes as the travel transition proceeds and then crashes.
@puzzlezaddict wrote:@Fanta_exotic12 Let's try to lower the stress on the game engine as much as possible. Use the version of the save where you ran the MC reset already.
- Empty out your sims' inventories as much as is reasonable. Having a few items is fine, but not much more.
- Save the game immediately before you want your sims to travel.
- Exit to the Main Menu and lower all the graphics settings to the minimum. Turn off the in-game shopping experience and the interactive loading screens as well, then quit to desktop.
- Delete the five cache files in your user folder again.
- Take your computer completely offline. If you play through the EA App, you can sign in and put it in offline mode before disconnecting your computer and launching the game.
- Load the game, and once the clock has run for a few sim-minutes, send your sims traveling right away.
- Once they arrive in their destination, use "save as" to rename the save, then quit. If you want, you can first exit to the Main Menu and raise the graphics settings again, but be sure to quit to desktop before reloading the save.
It's a good idea to use "save as" (again) to rename the save before traveling, so you have the original as backup should you need it again. There's always a chance your sims get stuck on vacation, with the game refusing to load the homeworld just as it's refusing to load the vacation world now. So this way, you can revert to the backup if necessary, and all you'll lose is the time you spent playing through the vacation.
If this doesn't help, please load your save again, put Sims 3 in windowed mode, open the Task Manager, and see how much RAM the game is using. Play forward for a few sim-minutes, then send your sims traveling, and watch RAM use. Let me know what you find, both the initial value and how it changes as the travel transition proceeds and then crashes.
merry christmas, i have abandoned the family, but many thanks for your help anyways
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