Crashing to Desktop June 2025
Hi everyone, I usually don't post my game issues because there's soooo much information out there but I've hit a dead end. I bought a new computer in Sept 2024 strictly for sims 3 after my last compu...
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puzzlezaddict So I use window borderless gaming for windowed mode, I use the TS3 GPU addon to match my graphics card, set "seti texturememory" to 4096 & "CPUlevel" to 4/3/3/3 in the graphicsrules.sgr file. Yesterday, while I was deep down the rabbit hole, found DXVK by Criisolate. Installed that because I believe there was something going on with my GPU because it would stay at 90% with no other app open when I would load my save and move around just the home lot. Crashing was constant. My fps is set to 60hz through the Nvidia control panel and, now, DXVK. It hits 60hz pretty fast when loading my game, and hovers around 58-60hz before I open a save. Basically stays at 60hz the entire (short) session.
Last night, I created a new sims 3 doc folder, ran another clean game (no mods at all, not even Nraas or noIntro) in sunset valley with the Langrabs. Crashed to desktop in 15min. They were just in park swinging. Here is what Razor cortex reported for those sessions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOJNoSpM1Ev-ljN0_ffoU4AykXASzhZ_z8VZdjPNY60/edit?usp=sharing
As i tried to work through this over at Nraas discussion/help boards, I had an idea about reshade. I had the modded version of reshade before my issues started - thought i fully uninstalled it when I installed reshade 6.1 which is the compatible version to DXVK (I didn't have any presets yet). I do think it did because each time I opened my game the maxis screen would lag as it constantly tried to compile all the files . So I fully uninstalled both (deleted any remnants) and was able to play a full day in the clean sims 3 folder (no mods at all, only DXVK) with the langraabs without crashing. Went to the park, movies, pool, overnight a burglar came, next morning Nancy went to work )overnight played 3x speed). Then I closed the game. RAM never went over 1.7. Here's what razor reported for fps for that session: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSC3FWjmT8e5-nTRfSUnR2YF889g4BtGpWhoWSbCipA/edit?usp=sharing
However, I just tried to load my main sims 3 folder and it crashed in eight minutes. No movements around town just home lot. Here's that report (second picture): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MSC3FWjmT8e5-nTRfSUnR2YF889g4BtGpWhoWSbCipA/edit?usp=sharing
