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Hyerlobos
4 years ago

My Sim keeps being referred to by the wrong gender.

I wouldn't exactly call this an issue, but I'm just curious what might be causing it. For instance if my reputation changes, my Sim is referred to as her or she despite being male. He shows up as mal...
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Hyerlobos
4 years ago
@puzzlezaddict That is pretty strange. And of course it would be SV that's the problem, it's the world I like the most. As far as what's happening on screen, it's completely random as far as I can tell. I will say that it happens very often while the game is saving, though luckily it still saves the game before crashing. I get Error Code 12 after extended periods of play and none of the methods for fixing it that I've found work, aside from allocating more RAM because I'm not entirely sure I understand that process. I'm always forced to close the game without saving if it happens. It's also crashed while in CAS.

I don't have the Pets expansion and I use pretty much all of the most useful NRaas mods. Mosquito Cove was likely caused by the constrainfloorelevation cheat since I was testing around to see how it works and likely saved afterwards. I think I'll tweak the Sekemoto house and see how that works out.
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puzzlezaddict
Hero+
4 years ago

@Hyerlobos  Error 12 is an out of resources condition, usually but not always about memory.  There's no way to allocate more RAM to a 32-bit application like Sims 3, although if your computer is already using most of its memory, freeing up enough to give the game 4 GB to work with can help.

It's worth checking whether your SV saves are in fact causing the game to hit the ~3.7 GB RAM limit, in case the issue is something else.  You can put the game in windowed mode and alt-tab to the Task Manager to see.

CAS is more resource-intensive than live play, and since Sims 3 doesn't always release all the memory it initially allocates, spending a lot of time in CAS or frequently switching between it and live mode can be a problem.  The same goes for Build and Buy modes to a lesser extent as well as Edit Town.

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