Game crashes in 1 save file and not another
My sims 3 game works perfectly for most of my save files, but for 1 specific file, it crashes every few minutes. The save file that crashes is an old save file. I've been playing it for about a year,...
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@tlobliviate What world is this current save in? How large is your household, and how many sims live in the world? What about the active lot: is it stuffed full of clutter or created objects (paintings, sculptures, inventions, whatever), and are there hundreds of objects in the sims' inventories or in storage chests? There are plenty of other reasons a save can become overloaded and start crashing, but those are some of the more common and easily addressable issues.
Additionally, which mods do you have, aside from StoryProgression? There are also ways to try to help a save run better, depending on which mods you use. Let me know if you're willing to add a couple others from NRaas as well.
Thanks for the reply 🙂 I'm playing in Sunset Valley. My town has about 50 people in it. I would like to make it much less but i don't know how, because random people just fill up all the empty houses or show up and never leave the town.
I just went around and deleted some paintings. My sims family is 4 people, they live in a pretty big house, but there is no clutter. I also emptied out their inventories. Do you think the crowded inventories of family members I moved out of the playable household could be causing problems?
I have the nraas mod, and the story progression mod.
Thank you <3
@tlobliviate StoryProgression and the other mod you mentioned are both NRaas mods, and there are a few dozen others. (Please edit your post to remove mention of the other mod; it raises the rating of the game and is therefore not supposed to be named on this site.) Which other mod do you have? And would you be willing to add a couple others also from NRaas?
Overstuffed inventories can contribute to overhead, as can many other accumulations of data (like cluttered households). Unless there's a broken item somewhere, none of this should cause crashing on its own, but the combined effect of several factors can raise the resources required to run a given save enough that the game engine can't keep up. It doesn't sound like this is the case for you though. Sunset Valley is also one of the most stable EA-made worlds, so that shouldn't present any problems; the population is well below the number where it could start to cause a problem. There are certainly ways to prevent more sims from moving in, but let's leave that for now.
It would still be helpful to know which packs you have installed though.
The reason I keep asking about mods is that there are ways to reset the town or otherwise try to repair a save, depending on which mods you have installed.
Hi. Yes I am open to using more mods as long as you think they will help.
I currently have generations, world adventures, island living, university, into the future, ambitions, late night, and supernatural installed. Whenever I try using world adventures, university, or into the future, (where my sims have to travel to another location) the game takes about 30 minutes to load, and if it does successfully load, it will crash pretty soon afterwards. When I tried returning from France, the game file got really badly corrupted. I fixed that, but decided to never use world adventures for this save file again. Idk why everything is so glitchy with this save file.
I think I'll go through townspeople's inventories and houses and start deleting clutter.
Do you think the long family trees are an issue? At least 3/4 of the town is a part of a very long family tree. One time, I used Nraas to open a townspersons family tree and the game crashed. That's why I mention the family trees. However, I don't know how I would fix that problem without having to delete all the townspeople, which I don't want to do.
Thanks so much for your help!! Hopefully this information will be useful to you.
