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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Hi again. Thanks so much for all the information! I've been searching the internet for answers to my problems, and really I should have just come here -- you have a solution for everything.
My game is running much better than it usually does. I was able to play for over an hour without crashes. Of course, the game did eventually crash though. I save probably every 5 minutes, and it never takes more than 3 minutes to save, which is amazing! I've stopped opening and closing houses, as you suggested. Also, I notice that my game is not taking up more than 1.8 GB of memory. I'm not sure why it said 2.3 GB before.
I'm wondering if switching back and forth from sims to an internet browser could be the cause of crashes. I often play in windowed mode and watch youtube at the same time. Could clicking on and off of the game lead to lagging and crashes?
I'm very interested in what you said about saving the sims to the library and making a new world with the same sims. I had that idea before, but when I tried it with one family, I noticed that their family tree did not carry over, and the family tree is a very important part of my game to me. You say if I bring the tombstones it would keep their family tree in tact? Can you explain that more?
And thanks for that fridge tip!!! What a good idea!
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@tlobliviate Switching between a browser window and the game shouldn't cause crashing on its own, although it can if your system is already running close to capacity with just Sims 3. Yours has more than enough memory; I'm thinking in this case of the processor, or perhaps that the graphics card is involved in something else you're doing and doesn't switch back and forth well. Sims 3 also doesn't always respond well to being minimized, at least on some systems. I find it does fine though if I put it in windowed mode and leave it up.
Playing the game and playing a video at the same time is more demanding than playing one and having the other on pause. Whether your system can handle those extra demands depends on the specs of your computer, your OS, and other factors. It's difficult to be sure what's happening on your computer without being in front of it and watching the output of some hardware monitoring app.
It's really speculation though, unless you notice something specific. At any rate, if the game crashes when you run YouTube or some application at the same time but not when you just play, then that's enough of a pattern to say you probably should avoid doing that.
When you save a household to the library, the sims lose all relationships with people not in that household, and that includes dead relatives. This is also true of the option to move sims to a different neighborhood through the phone interaction. The point of using NRaas Porter is that instead of transferring single households, you pack a number of them together, preserving all the info among them. If you put the tombstones of the dead relatives in the inventory of one of the packed sims, the ancestors' data, and the relationships that follow, will be intact. So for example, using Porter, if first cousins living in different households bring their dead parents' urns with them, they'll still be first cousins in the new save, regardless of whether you unpack them to the same household or different ones.
The fridge tip is a great idea, and it's not mine. Someone else posts the suggestion often, and I and others steal it mercilessly. The nice thing about it is it works whether you have StoryProgression or not, and without having to go through any other mod options.
I see. To be honest, moving all my sims to a new neighborhood, and trying to keep their relationships sounds too complicated. For now, with the errortrap mod, I think I'm just gonna deal with the game as it is. I guess I shouldn't play it in windowed mode. I play in full screen, then save in windowed mode since I'm so used to the game saving for infinity and freezing my computer.
Now I have to go delete some refrigerators, lol.
Thanks for all your tips! My game is running so much better than it was.
