Continually crashing sims 3
Looking for help to fix the problem of the Sims 3 continually crashing on my windows 8 laptop. I know this is a common problem among people who own windows 8 computers/laptops, so I thought that may...
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Right, all of my crashes have been titled as 'Max Memory Used - Try to reduce memory usage by lowering settings' and this is the information I was given:
Processor Name: AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics Processor Architecture: AMD64 Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon HD 7640G (512 MiB, not found) Antiviruses: Windows Defender, Norton Internet Security
Games Installed: The Sims™ 3 (1.50.56.021002), The Sims™ 3 World Adventures (2.0.86.002002 -> 2.17.2.011032), The Sims™ 3 Ambitions (4.0.87.006001 -> 4.10.1.011031), The Sims™ 3 Late Night (6.0.81.009001 -> 6.5.1.011031), The Sims™ 3 Generations (8.0.152.011001), The Sims™ 3 Supernatural (15.0.135.018001), The Sims™ 3 University Life (18.0.126.021001) Custom Content: Yes (1 found)
[UNKNOWN] 04/04/2013 02:51:49 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 446 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000014 Crash Address: 0x005e92c1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe":0x0001:0x001e82c1
[UNKNOWN] 04/04/2013 02:59:36 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 180 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x0000000c Crash Address: 0x00c0ddbe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe":0x0001:0x0080cdbe
[UNKNOWN] 04/04/2013 15:09:19 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 463 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00000000 Crash Address: 0x746672d7 "C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.6910_none_d089c358442de345\MSVCR80.dll":0x0001:0x000162d7
[UNKNOWN] 04/04/2013 15:44:20 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 461 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00000000 Crash Address: 0x74b64a7f "C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.6910_none_d089c358442de345\MSVCR80.dll":0x0001:0x00013a7f
[UNKNOWN] 06/04/2013 23:06:05 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 456 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION writing address 0x00000000 Crash Address: 0x74b672d7 "C:\Windows\WinSxS\x86_microsoft.vc80.crt_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50727.6910_none_d089c358442de345\MSVCR80.dll":0x0001:0x000162d7
[UNKNOWN] 07/04/2013 00:13:24 OS Version: 6.2.9200 TS3 Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe TS3 Version: 0.2.0.188 Installed RAM: 7.46 GiB TS3 Free VM: 441 MiB / 4.00 GiB Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000014 Crash Address: 0x005e92c1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe":0x0001:0x001e82c1
What settings do you recommend lowering?
Looks to me like you have very few memory left.
Are those games you played for quite a while or a newly started game ?
It might be also an idea to update the EPs where possible (EA says it's not necessary but it does help some people). There's a tool called Patch Downloader at the same place where you can download those with (they are official patches)
What do you mean by 'very few memory'? According to my laptop, my C drive where the game is installed to as 577 GB of space left in it.
Also these are new games which I have started.
Where can I find the Patch Downloader on the site?
It's at the same site you downloaded the Crash Log Analyzer. Not here.
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With Memory, I mean RAM.
TS3 Free VM: 180 MiB / 4.00 GiB
TS3 Free VM: 446 MiB / 4.00 GiB
It's a bit puzzling why you have those result on a new game.
I'll check with Ford (the creator of the tool) and let you know
Ford said to lower all settings, including the Sims free will ones.
I really don't know what else you can do. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Maybe someone else has an idea. I'll pass this on to the other helpers
