CAW won't start on Win10
Couldn't CAW to save my butt, but kept trying until windows 10 when it would briefly show the start screen then shut down with no message. New computer, (PC) figured why not? So installed CAW. Won...
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C:\Users\vgrac>%LOCALAPPDATA%\CrashDumps
'C:\Users\vgrac\AppData\Local\CrashDumps' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Creating the dump worked but no dialogs came up after attempting to start caw. I waited awhile,tried launching again and waited some more. Nothing. See above for second command. Guessing it didn't work because no batch file was created?
Don't know why CCC is on this machine. It was a refurbished model so maybe the video card was swapped out at some point. The adjustments I made to keep the game running smoothly were done with nvidia. Anyway, got rid of amd. Game still works fine, caw still doesn't. What's weird to me is that it worked for a few days some weeks back when I first downloaded it to this machine, then stopped working and as I mentioned before, ts3 broke at the same time. Reinstall fixed the game but caw is still being a p.i.t.a.
Thanks puzzleaddict for your thoughtful help. I ordered Seasons for no reason other than all the good lots and worlds use it. Figured I'd set up the world I wanted in caw to play it but heck if I've gotten along without for all this time I'll get along period.
BTW the Honey thing. Saw those too. Am guessing that anytime it tries to apply a no-longer-valid coupon at checkout it might cause an error? Will look into it as I adore that app.
Thanks again.
@Vgrace573 The way you describe the crash (or closing out, no crash, as the case may be), it sounds like what would happen if your antivirus/firewall was blocking CAW. It would be weird for it to flag CAW but not TS3 itself, unless you've set an exception for the game. I don't actually know what the .exe is for the 1.69 version of CAW; I have a Steam/1.67 install. You could find out easily enough though, and try setting an exception. Or just turn off your your av temporarily while you test.
If that doesn't help, you might ask on the official Sims forums. Some players there still use CAW, and while 1.69 isn't particularly popular, plenty of players do have Origin installs. Maybe someone else will have ideas.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/create-a-world
I'm sorry I don't have any better ideas.
roberta591 and puzzlezaddict thank you both. I looked things over but my (admittedly ignorant) eyes didn't see a problem. Turned off everything on Defender that could be and Malwarebytes doesn't run in real time. Whole thing reminds me of my old original x-box. Wouldn't start a game at all for months then suddenly worked perfectly, then decided not to work again.
Be that as it may, my system works great for everything else including gameplay not just ts3 but some other truly finicky games that I won't mention here. (One has its own Netflix series coming up that I'm kinda jazzed about!) I may butt into a thread on the forums as I can't find the spot where they'll let me create a new one.
Thanks again for your time and attention. Have a good one!
