So I haven't gotten the "Assertion Failed" error message since yesterday, but now I'm getting the more common "Exception raised. Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x00000000 at address 0x7c470f73" during my house party. Is this just due to the amount of activity going on in the game (sims, mixologists, stereos, etc.)?
@jeen1726 I think that it probably does have something, or maybe everything, to do with the number of sims and other data the game is forced to handle. The exception raised issues are more often seen when trying to launch the game, so I'm not as familiar with what the error means in the course of live play. But a party with a number of sims present and all sorts of activities happening is definitely a good place to run out of memory, or else to just get a glitch from which the game engine can't recover.
In your position, I'd quit to desktop and relaunch immediately before my sim calls to start the party, and quit immediately after it was over, just to keep resource use down. RAM is the resource most likely to be exhausted, but it's not the only one, and the game engine itself can only handle so much excitement before it can't keep up anymore. (Sims 3 is great, but it doesn't have the most stable of engines.) This is even a problem in Windows, where Sims 3 is better optimized even independently of the higher RAM limit.
Awesome, I will try out your suggestions and hopefully have a successful party. 🥳 Thank you for all of your help! 🙂
