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iliekponiez
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago

Game crashing when camera moves too fast

Product:The Sims 3
Platform: Windows 10
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? In the town of Appaloosa Plains
What is your current game version number? 1.69.43.024017
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Into the Future, Supernatural, Pets
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Move the camera quickly in town view.
What happens when the bug occurs? When I move my camera too quickly around town, the game crashes.
What do you expect to see? The game not crashing when I move the camera quickly around town.

Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? I have several Nraas mods installed.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Not sure
Please describe the patch or change you made. Not sure

My game keeps crashing when quickly moving the camera around town. Jumping from sim to sim, panning too fast, panning to click on a lot in town view all seems to cause it. This is really starting to be a problem. Oddly enough, it didn't seem to happen in Oasis Landing.

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    2 years ago

    @iliekponiez  This is just a shot in the dark, but does one of your sims have a Collection Helper, and do you leave it active?  If so, try turning it off.

    Other than that, are you up for a little testing?  If so, it might be worth purging all the wild animals in Appaloosa Plains to see whether it helps.  I have no idea if it will, but that's one obvious difference between AP and Oasis Landing.  If you're interested and are willing to use a few mods, please install NRaas ErrorTrap, Overwatch, MasterController, and Register, if you haven't already.

    When you load AP, click on City Hall or an in-game computer and select NRaas > Register > Animal Control, and set the number of each type of animal to zero.  Then, if you don't want to wait for the existing ones to be removed, you can do so manually: NRaas > MC > Sim > Advanced > Total Annihilation > Species > [all but human].  Select only the strays and wild animals from the list, not the resident pets at first.

    As a side note, there will always be some extra animals listed that never appear on-camera: cats and dogs from the adoption service, horses available for breeding.  You can delete these too, but they'll just respawn.  However, they won't affect performance, so don't worry about them either way.  I'm mentioning them so you don't think you need to keep purging them or that the process didn't work properly.

    Once you've done this, use "save as" to rename the save, so the original remains intact as a backup, quit, delete the cache files in your user folder, and reload.  For reference, the cache files are:

    • CASPartCache.package
    • compositorCache.package
    • scriptCache.package
    • simCompositorCache.package
    • socialCache.package

    If this helps, but you don't want to lose all the strays, you can try with one or two categories at a time, e.g. removing the horses and unicorns and deer but leaving the others.  If it doesn't help, try removing the domestic horses too.  That would be sad, or at least I'd be sad, but it's worth finding out either way.

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