Re: [CURRENT ISSUE 64-bit] TS3 64-bit memory leak

@shade-lich92  In theory, the game would only use this much memory if there were a recurring error that the game engine couldn't resolve.  NRaas mods address most of the possible errors, not all of them, but this still shouldn't happen very often with the relevant mods installed.

Are you seeing this error all the time, or only under certain circumstances?  What world are you playing in, and which packs do you have installed?  Does it make a difference if you play only in Sunset Valley?  Please try if you haven't already.

I'm also having this trouble lately. I've only had this game for less than a week and have played it perfectly fine til the exact same message popped up. I have macbook pro 8GB Ram system with 256gb storage and even played a few hours before this randomly popped up. The only way I've even been able to load and play sims 3 is if I completely redownload the game with no cc but that wouldn't be much fun. Otherwise, the game would not launch past the launcher and I am not able to navigate anything on my laptop unless I force quit origin and sims 3. I'm really hoping for a solution! 

@tph4m  First of all, you never need to uninstall and reinstall the game to get rid of custom content.  You can simply remove or rename the Sims 3 folder in Documents > Electronic Arts, which is where user data (including mods and cc) is stored, and the game will create a clean folder with no content.

I'd never tell someone they can't play with custom content at all, but if you have bad cc, then it can definitely cause crashing or other performance issues.  So it's worth testing with no cc present just to see whether that stops the memory leak.  If it does, you'll know that some of your cc is the issue, you can selectively reintroduce the items until you run into problems again.

The most efficient way to test is to let the game create a clean Sims 3 folder, as described, and then copy your save from the older folder to the new one.  If the save takes place in a store or custom world, install that too, but nothing else.  Since you're copying your save instead of moving it, the original will be intact while you experiment on the new copy.

If the game still crashes with no cc at all, please let me know what world you're currently playing in.  Some of them have their own problems.

hi! i know this thread is old now, but i also wanted to mention that im having this problem too. it doesnt matter what world/save/family im playing and whether im playing with cc or not - it will still happen at random events. ive tried looking for the cause of it but each time ive been doing something different and it will freeze and after about 5 mins of being frozen it will tell me ive run out of memory because sims 3 is using ~60gb of ram. it also doesnt happen everytime i play, nor a set time after opening - its happened as soon as i opened the game once and its happened about 3 hours into playing once. like i said, it doesnt matter what im doing - for example, its happened while my sim was just making breakfast, and then its happened when i was in world edit. its not consistent at all.

i hope theres some sort of fix to this eventually. i have nraas overwatch and et installed, both of which are very helpful finding other problems, but not this. 

@BongoMan1235  Do you see any errors from ErrorTrap or Overwatch when this happens?  Sims 3 has always had issues with memory management, but in the 32-bit version, RAM use would hit the limit and the game would crash.  With the 64-bit version, whatever is happening can keep happening until the game reaches the system limit for both physical and paged memory.  Examples include trying to reroute a stuck sim and incessantly recalculating the routing for a large dog that might need to use a bathtub, even if the dog and human aren't trying to use the tub at the moment.  I'm sure there are more, and ET doesn't catch everything.

I'd suggest adding Register just in case the game is having trouble assigning roles.  In general, when there's a large dog in the active household, it's best to keep any bathtubs in the family inventory until they're needed.  For stuck sims, you could try installing Tagger and looking for any sims that aren't moving and also aren't in a location where it would make sense for them to stay put.  For example, a couple of weeks ago, my sims were on vacation in Egypt and the game started to feel sluggish.  It turned out two sims were stuck on the lot with a shipwreck near the bottom of the map.  Overwatch eventually reset them, but if that save had been more progressed, it might have hit the RAM limit first.