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TylerHowell17
5 years ago

Game started crashing to desktop with advanced rendering enabled

I've been playing TS3 (all DLCs) with absolutely no issues for over a year, it's been running pretty smoothly with barely any lag (my graphics settings are at medium except sim detail which is set to...
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puzzlezaddict
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5 years ago

@TylerHowell17  Do you get any scripterrors to go along with the crashes?  They'd be in the Sims 3 folder in Documents\Electronic Arts.  If you do, the people at NRaas would be much better equipped to interpret them and let you know what looks broken; I have only a rudimentary ability to read them.

What I would suggest though, if you can get an older save loaded for at least a little while, is to run an MC town reset.  Then use "save as" to rename the save (so you keep the original as a backup), quit, delete the cache files, reload, and see how things go.  For reference, the cache files are:

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

Save often, pay attention to what's happening in-game.  If you get another crash, I'd like to know what was on-screen, what time of sim-day it was, etc.  This is especially relevant if you can duplicate the crashes under some particular set of circumstances.

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TylerHowell17
5 years ago
@puzzlezaddict I tried my best to get an older save to load, but I couldn't even get past the loading screen without a crash. I managed to play a new save for about 5 days in-game before it crashed - it was around 4pm on a Friday, and my sim was at work (Film career). I was on the map view looking for a sim I needed to speak to for an opportunity when the screen froze and then the game crashed to the desktop. I checked the script error file in my sims 3 folder and it mentioned the FPS limiter file in the /bin folder I've been using, so I removed it, deleted the cache files, and tried to load an old save but it still crashed (this time without a script error) so I'm not sure if that actually was the issue, but I've not put it back in just in case. I guess I'll just have to play without advanced rendering enabled, even if it does bug me. Thank you for your help the last few days, I really appreciate it!

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