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@LeoSalinas73 The first and simplest test is to remove your entire Sims 3 game folder from Documents\Electronic Arts; you can just put it on your desktop. Launch the game, which will create a clean game folder with no content. Start a new save, and test Create a Sim, Build/Buy modes, and live play to see whether you get a crash.
Please also check your in-game frame rates. Your graphics card is powerful enough to generate very high fps, and Sims 3's built in fps limiter doesn't work. High frame rates alone can sometimes cause crashing, even when everything else works as it should. To see your fps, open the cheats console (crtl-shift-C) and enter "fps on" without quotes. A number will appear in the upper right corner of your screen, and it should never go above 60, which is the refresh rate of your monitor. If it's much higher, let me know, and I can post instructions for manually limiting it.
If Sims 3 still crashes in the clean game folder, and your fps isn't the problem, then the next step is to reinstall a Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable, specifically the 2005 x86 version. You can uninstall the one you have and download a new copy from Microsoft. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of your screen, select Settings > Apps, scroll to where the file is listed (be sure to get the 2005 x86 version), and uninstall. Then download a new copy from here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=26347
(This download includes all versions of the 2005 VC++, but you only need to run vcredist_x86.exe.)
Let me know if none of this helps, and we can move onto more complicated steps.
I have sim3 since the game was launched, then every time a new expansion, World, Stuff came out i buy it, so you can guess how much i love this game, i have it with all original Disc Imported from the USA to my Country, since many of this was never available to purchase here LOL.
Ok i have another computer that was "Not good enough" for the game, so i don't use the game for years, then i was able to purchase this PC i have now, then i install the game, like you mention before, Clean Install, without any CC everything new from ORIGIN, game crash no matter what.
So i look into the web, and read several things similar happend to many people, then i install the Mods Nraas Error Trap and Nraas Overwatch that allow me to run the game for hours and hours before something happens, I get very frustrated "Again" when the crash stars again, and now more often than usual, (from hours to minutes)
When i read one of your post, i start to act again.
I close the windows Cloud , i have it all the time active, so now is closed
So far no crash
I'm not an computer expert but i'm not a novice either, so i think i can change also the parameters in the task manager to make the sims 3 to be running "In real time" and not in normal as windows by default make it to be running.
Also i notice that by default it was set to UAC Virtualization was set DISABLED, so i turn it on to Enabled, seems like all this is working, i will let you know later, im still running the game
NOTICE: i set in the game the frame rate to be 60 it is running now at 60 as you mention
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