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lilgem19907's avatar
13 years ago

Game crashes since update before supernatural

Ever since I downloaded the update that came out before supernatural I have been having crashing problems. I thought supernatural might fix it but it didn't I thought the update before season's might fix it, it didn't and I hoped and prayed that season's itself would fix it, and oh look it didn't.

I'm running on Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001). I have just recently reformatted my hard drive and re-installed Sims and ALL EP's and SP's which have been released so far, so I have LOADs more space on my hard drive thinking it was that.
It will either crash about an hour into game play or if I try and use CAS which it the most annoying cause I just changed season and I want to change my Sims clothes to go with it ☹️

I only have 2 mods one to stop the intro  video playing and the others a ladder.

Oh and I save regularly so I know that wont help.

Processor: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU E2400 @ 2.60GHz (2CPU), ~2.6GHz

Memory: 3292MB RAM

Graphics: Intel(R) G41 Express Chipset     Driver Date: 11/02/11

Please can someone help me. I'm sick of this now I just want to be able to enjoy the game without worrying it's going to crash every 5 mins.

7 Replies

  • How much dedicated memory does your graphic chip have ?

    Have you tried lowering your graphic options ?

  • 32mb is that bad? i have no idea.
    No i haven't tried that i'll give that ago next, thanks

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    The miminum specs require 128 MB so yes, that is below specs.

    Hopefully lowering the settings will work. 

  • It's helped with crashing in CAS but still crashes after about an hour of game play. May have to look into a new graphics card after xmas lol. Thanks

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    13 years ago

    Make sure it's one that fits your computer. Your processor isn't too fast either.

    Also if you're on a laptop, cards usually can't be added.

  • No i'm on a PC, believe me the processor will be fine my last one was MUCH slower and it still ran sims fine 🙂 Thanks

  • So i bought a new graphics card, it's 2GB and now my game is worse than ever. Any ideas?

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