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What exactly did you do with virtual memory? Your dxdiag shows plenty of storage set aside for the page file, in truth a lot more than your computer could probably ever use, but if you merely increased this size, that wouldn't affect how Sims 3 runs. The game doesn't respond well to having its data paged, and that wouldn't do anything to overcome the 32-bit limit anyway.
Are you running an existing save or a new one, and did you ever play it with more than the base game active? Since you mentioned not using any expansions, I want to make sure that that's not the issue: removing an expansion from a save that's already been exposed to it can cause anything from terrible performance to an error when trying to load the save in the first place.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FP4ORXwNwheGe_8uyAIL2ym8WzT6KpjD/view?usp=sharing
I think this should work.
And yes for virtual memory I just increased the amount my PC can use so it shouldn't cause any issue but wanted to mention it anyway.
I have been running a new save each time I've done tests and haven't activated any expansions since the last time I reinstalled. When the problem started I hadn't changed anything to do with cc, mods or expansions so I don't think it's anything to do with that. I was running it with all expansions and a lot of CC and mods but it was working fine for months.