Game Crashes - Your Personal Experiences.

Probably an interval of once every few weeks since it’s either a combination of running out of memory or something gimped up with the various mods affecting my game.

Since I started using NRAAS solely for game framework affecting mods and utilizing workarounds within NRAAS for various necessary things I need done in Sims - pretty much 75% of all stuff that are accomplished by other mods can be done through NRAAS if you dig hard enough in the NRAAS menu.

So I’ve cut out most other third party mods that affect gameplay controls and found an alternate way through NRAAS.

Now the only other third party mods I use are stuff that cannot be replicated by NRAAS and add new gameplay options.

Mine crashes occasionally. In my opinion, I think it's typically either because I have left my game on in pause mode for days while I am not actively playing it, or I have done too much customization in Nraas Stylist, or both. (I do play during that time, it's just left on when I am on the forums or eating or napping. I do close it sometimes when I go to bed, and almost always when I go out of the house.)

Mine crashes probably every couple of months, usually after spending a long time building / decorating & CaSTing. And it isn't so much a crash, it's that when it does choose to misbehave, it's the UI that disappears and I'm forced to task manager out of the game.

"Astro;c-18139633" wrote:

"Pary;c-18139590" wrote:
Mine crashes probably every couple of months, usually after spending a long time building / decorating & CaSTing. And it isn't so much a crash, it's that when it does choose to misbehave, it's the UI that disappears and I'm forced to task manager out of the game.

That's a new one, I've never heard of that happening before. :D

Yeah it's a pain in the bum, especially if you haven't saved. There is a fix for it outlined here - https://fleurdeprairie.tumblr.com/post/87089812065/i-have-always-cried-every-time-someone-told-me
But it only works intermittently for me, so sometimes I lose everything I've done. There are odd occasions that even task manager wont fix it, because I can't even tab out of the game, I have to reset the PC. Thankfully those kinds of episodes are very far and few between ?

The UI crash seems to happen if you press buttons too quickly one after the other, while the last task you gave it is still loading stuff.

I voted "once every few weeks", but it's rare. I always have the Resource Monitor running on a second screen, so I have an idea how much memory the game is using at every moment in time. This also means I know when to make my final save before I have to restart the game to get to a lower memory baseline again.

That said, I have crashes once in a while. It may happen if I have a big household, especially if the household members are doing stuff on different lots, stuff I told them to do, and then I go and switch between them all the time to give them new orders. That way, the game is loading different lots all the time, and it certainly doesn't like that if done too often. A specifically crash-prone situation is when a sim finishes an instrument performance with lots of spectators. The instrument animation has to stop, the game then waits for any potential incoming tips from the crowd, and then the animation to put the instrument into the inventory has to play. It's better to keep my fingers off keyboard and mouse during that time.

Another more common crash reason is turning the camera while all sims in a big household are busy doing stuff. Bonus points if the camera lands inside a wall and doesn't know what to show. Turning the camera on a tiny lot with lots of sims that have trouble routing is also an issue. Bonus points if that lot is next to a mountain or high building and the camera has to go up and down.

That said, all of these instances are relatively easy to avoid. I know I have to give the game time to finish something it's computing, and crashes usually happen if I forget that for a moment. Which is, as mentioned, rare.

"Turjan;c-18140001" wrote:
The UI crash seems to happen if you press buttons too quickly one after the other, while the last task you gave it is still loading stuff.

I voted "once every few weeks", but it's rare. I always have the Resource Monitor running on a second screen, so I have an idea how much memory the game is using at every moment in time. This also means I know when to make my final save before I have to restart the game to get to a lower memory baseline again.

That said, I have crashes once in a while. It may happen if I have a big household, especially if the household members are doing stuff on different lots, stuff I told them to do, and then I go and switch between them all the time to give them new orders. That way, the game is loading different lots all the time, and it certainly doesn't like that if done too often. A specifically crash-prone situation is when a sim finishes an instrument performance with lots of spectators. The instrument animation has to stop, the game then waits for any potential incoming tips from the crowd, and then the animation to put the instrument into the inventory has to play. It's better to keep my fingers off keyboard and mouse during that time.

Another more common crash reason is turning the camera while all sims in a big household are busy doing stuff. Bonus points if the camera lands inside a wall and doesn't know what to show. Turning the camera on a tiny lot with lots of sims that have trouble routing is also an issue. Bonus points if that lot is next to a mountain or high building and the camera has to go up and down.

That said, all of these instances are relatively easy to avoid. I know I have to give the game time to finish something it's computing, and crashes usually happen if I forget that for a moment. Which is, as mentioned, rare.

It's really a crime this game was made on a 32-bit engine... If more ram was able to be used 99% of issues people have would never happen.

"puzzlezaddict;c-18140073" wrote:
@Pary If you click crtl-alt-delete and select Sign Out, you should be booted to the Windows sign-in screen, no need to force-restart.

Ooh I honestly never even thought of that, I just mash the reset button :D Thanks, I will do that next time!

"Astro;d-1000929" wrote:
Whenever my game crashes I use the Crash Log Analyzer to see what (most likely) the issue was, and 9/10 times it was a 'ran out of memory' issue. That answer can be caused by many things though, in my case (I play in borderless window) when I would switch the window to another program a few times and then tried to save the game, it would almost always crash. So now when I play, I just don't switch windows or tab to another program and haven't had any crashes. But for others the answer isn't so easy to find.

I asked this question on Twitter and Reddit - you can read the responses if you'd like, and I wanted to ask the same thing here just to see if game crashing is an issue for you and when it happens and if you know a specific reason why it's happening.
https://twitter.com/AstroX14242/status/1542274200697982976
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/vnr9wd/how_often_does_your_game_crash/

The reason was because my old PC I played on had an outdated graphics card. I got a new PC last Christmas- 2021 but haven't played 3 much due to lack of ideas.

The disappearing UI:

https://i.imgur.com/tkFvNkY.jpg

Always annoying when I have spent an hour decorating...

@Cororon ugh! I hate that too!