Sims 3 64-bit crashing every 15 minutes
I'm playing the Sims 3 64-bit on an early 2015 MacBook pro. I wasn't having grave problems until last week where my sims game began crashing around 15 minutes after loading my game. The expansions I ...
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@amymar17 If you're willing to add another NRaas mod, try using Register to disallow stray pets and wild animals. Click on City Hall and select NRaas > Register > Animal Control, and you'll see a number for each type of animal, excluding small pets. It's possible that strays are contributing to the crashing issues, and this is an easy test.
If you're fond of one or two certain strays, you can try only zeroing out the other animal populations that don't include that type, e.g. if you like a certain cat, leave that population number as is and get rid of the others. You can also try this on a spare copy of your save if you're not sure you'd want to play this way going forward. Use "save as" to rename the save, and the original will remain intact while you play with the spare copy.
I tried to set up the register mod, but now as soon as I load the game it lags and crashes before I can even set up the mod. Where can I go from here? Thanks for your help
@amymar17 Remove Register for the moment, and add NRaas MasterController. (The base mod alone is fine.) Delete the five cache files in your Sims 3 user folder:
- CASPartCache.package
- compositorCache.package
- scriptCache.package
- simCompositorCache.package
- socialCache.package
Load your save and let the game clock run for a few sim-minutes, then pause. Click on City Hall and select NRaas > MasterController > Town Options > Reset Everything. The reset might take a few minutes to run, depending on the condition of the save and the speed of your hard drive. When it's done, you'll get an on-screen notification; let the clock run a few more sim-minutes, then use "save as" to rename the save, so the original remains intact as a backup. Then quit, delete the cache files again, add Register, and see if you can get far enough to change its settings.
If you're still getting crashes, whether after you change Register's settings or before you get far enough to do so, try playing while your computer is offline. Restart the computer, sign into Origin, put it in offline mode, then disable wifi and/or disconnect the ethernet cable before launching the game.
I tried what you suggested with the Master Controller mod, but as soon as my town finished the reset, the game crashed straight away before I could save. I also restarted my laptop & tried offline, but the same problem occurred. What else could I try?
@amymar17 I guess you could try increasingly harsh interventions, e.g. using MC Total Annihilation to remove all pets. (That makes me wince a little just writing it.) But the issue may be the Pets expansion itself, not anything you can control while you have it installed. It often doesn't run well, or at all, on your kind of hardware; some players report having no issues for a few days before suddenly getting a flood of crashes.
The problem is, your save will probably not be playable without Pets present. So removing it would mean starting a new save. Whether you want to go right to that or would prefer to keep trying to fix your existing save is your call. You could also remove Pets and test on a new save, just to make sure the crashing is in fact related.
Uninstalling Pets is as simple as deleting its folder. In either Applications or Users > your username > Applications, you'll have a Sims 3 app and a Sims 3 Packs folder. Inside the packs folder, just delete the EP05 folder (Pets was the fifth expansion released), and you're done. It's also a good idea to play in a clean Sims 3 user folder when you've removed a pack. Move your existing folder out of Documents > Electronic Arts, open the launcher to spawn a clean folder, and copy over your Mods folder if you want; just don't add anything else.
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