Sims 3 64 bit keeps crashing
For the first two weeks or so of playing the sims 3 64 bit version, I had no problems with the game lagging or crashing. However, lately it has been crashing more and more, with today seeing a total ...
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@CatCrackerz The issue might in fact be the pets, although it's difficult to be sure. Plenty of players with hardware similar to yours have been unable to use the Pets EP without crashing, but that's not a universal experience.
Since you could originally play fine with pets, the animals themselves may not be the issue, but perhaps something else going on in the world, for example a pack of wild horses spawning somewhere inconvenient or a baby animal getting stuck. Inactive households will adopt pets too, and those can cause problems even if your own sims' pets are fine.
If you're willing to use mods, I can recommend some to try, although I can't promise they'll help without knowing the exact cause of the crashes. If you don't want to use them, try disabling all the pet-related options you can find within the game settings.
It's also a good idea to delete the five cache files in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 every time you get a crash. (The files should be deleted regularly anyway.) For reference, they are:
- CASPartCache.package
- compositorCache.package
- scriptCache.package
- simCompositorCache.package
- socialCache.package
If there are any files in the CurrentGame folder, delete those as well. That folder should always be empty unless you actually have a save loaded.
I'm open to using mods in my game, although from what I've seen the process is a bit more involved than the sims 4.
@CatCrackerz It's more involved, but still fairly straightforward. Here's a guide, if you're curious:
https://modthesims.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_System_Requirements
In your position, I'd start with NRaas ErrorTrap, Overwatch, MasterController, and Register. The first two do their own cleanup without any need for user input; MC does nothing unless you use it to issue a command; Register controls the role sim population, which includes stray animals. Overwatch also has the option to shut down the neighborhood pet adoption feature, where an inactive household is selected to host randomly generated puppies or kittens. This feature can easily break, so I'd recommend disabling it.
With Register, you can disable strays and wild animals, which I'd try doing too, at least for now. If it stops the crashing, great, that's a solution that doesn't affect your sims' ability to have pets.
I installed those mods and turned off strays and wild animals. My game would lag whenever one of the mods caught an error, but it didn't crash until I started turning my camera after I turned it into full screen mode (only 10 minutes after I opened the world). is there any known problem with using fullscreen instead of windowed?
For reference, I originally thought that there was no correlation between the crashing and if it had it fullscreen or windowed. for the first few weeks of playing the game, I played it in fullscreen with the 4:3 aspect ratio, and recently got it to a 16:10 aspect ratio. Could that also be part of the problem?
Hi
So I am playing Sims 3 64 bit mac version and I am having a lot of problems with it.
Every single time that I play I can't go in the fast modes because it will almost immediately freeze afterwards and after about 2 to 3 minutes of playing very cautiously the game freezes and that rainbow circle comes up and I have to force quit to the game. I will also note that my computer never heats up when I am playing it and I've heard thats not normal. I uninstalled all of my packs but that didn't do anything. I delete all of the cache files and everything in my current game folder. I use the Catalina and I'm not sure what to do.
@toyotacamri98 Please attach your deviceconfig.log to a post; it's in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3. (You'll need to manually open the folders; the file won't show up in a search.) You can delete your user and computer names, about 25 lines down, but there's nothing else in that file that can identify you.
And let me know whether you currently have any packs installed, and which world(s) you've been playing in.
