My game crashes sporadically
I stopped playing the game 6 months ago because the same problem occurred. I tried to solve it back then, but I couldn't and quit the game. This time, I got a new computer and started playing the gam...
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chainful Most of the crashes in your dxdiag are from elements of the Nvidia graphics driver, so please do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the driver. Here's how:
When you reinstall the driver, choose the Custom (not Express) install method, and do NOT install GeForce Experience, at least not for now. Its overlay may or may not be a problem, but you don't need it for Sims 3 and can test without it for now.
Sims 3 requires DirectX 9, but if DX9 weren't installed or were corrupt, the game wouldn't open at all. And the Sims 3 errors in your dxdiag are too generic to be of use by themselves.
What world(s) are you playing in right now? You said there's no pattern to the crashes, but do you get any scripterrors before the crashes that might be useful here? The ones that happen as soon as the save loads are usually not relevant, just reports of ErrorTrap doing its job. But if you see repeated errors in the run of play, and especially just before the crashing, that would be of interest.
Thank you for the detailed answer. The crash has no error message. As I wrote, it crashes to the desktop mid-play, whether it's 5 minutes or 20 minutes. The error trap error message was just a general error check. It was even more frustrating because I did not use mods known to conflict with the NRAAS mode - smooth patch, KW, etc. The world I played in was sunset valley.
As you recommended, I used the program to uninstall the graphics driver and then reinstall it. Just to be sure, I also reinstalled the ea app and game. I played Sunset Valley without reinstalling Store CC or World, but with only the mod folder. I was able to play without interruption for about 2 hours. Thank goodness. The reason I didn't download Store CC was because before the crash, there was an error where the dccache file couldn't be loaded for no reason. Even though it was downloaded from ea home. I didn't think it was a big problem because it was loaded after reinstalling the EA app.
Now I plan to install Store CC and playtest again. I'm hoping the error doesn't happen again. Thank you again for your reply. have a good day.
