Sims 3 CAS crashes

I'm such an idiot. When IT reimaged my laptop (because Windows 8 was being a bi**h) they downgraded me to Windows 7 - thus downgrading my drivers. I'll talk to them about it next year when I go back to school - I'm one of the "nerds" because I can continue a conversation with them - and hopefully they can put me on Windows 8 again. 

GRRRRRRRRR. How could I forget the obvious?!

TBH, I would stay on Windows 7 :D

Could you please accept a solution if your game is working now.

Sorry for not pointing out that your graphics drivers are from 2012 ...

I would personally stay on Windows 7 too

My game still isn't working though. The only time it crashes is CAS so my drivers must be high enough to withstand Live Mode at least. Any last ideas? I'm getting desperate. 

Are you willing to try a third party tool ? There's a tool called crash log analyzer (just google).

It's not a magic tool that can stop the crashes but it can give an indication to where the error lies. Just copy the errors you get to the clipboard and post them here.

This tool is not supported by EA so you'll be using it at your own risk

When I said I'd tried everything - I really had. I've tried that, I've tried making a new Sims 3 Folder - almost everything. What I'm missing, I have no clue. Any other ideas? Please?

So what did the tool say ?

It didn't say anything was out of the norm. According to it, nothing was wrong. 

I'm out of ideas then. If the CLA didn't have any logs to analyze, this might be hardware related then (which I suck at)

Hopefully someone else can help you further.

I ran the CLA again (after I reinstalled it) and it actually found something... It says that there are updates available for... High End Loft Stuff, Ambitions, Fast Lane, Late Night, and it won't let me see more but there is an elipse. But it's confused me because I'm as updated as I can be... What the Plumbob is going on?

There's updates for the first few expansions that are not necessary but sometimes do make the game better anyways (for whatever reason). EA doesn't offer those any longer cause there was so much issues with those when offered through the launcher.

The user that made the CLA also has a tool called Patch Downloader. You can get the patches there.

I'm running it now - I'd already downloaded it. I'll edit this when I'm done because I have to do them all seperately. Okay, so I ran that and the Dashboard for all my CC, but it still crashes. ☹️

And CLA is saying what now ?

Custom Content - But I ran all my CC beforehand and there wasn't a problem. I then ran Dashboard afterwards and apparently there were alot of conflicts - which I didn't have. I dunno. Tomorrow I'm just going to un and reinstall. 

Remove the cc and see if the issue goes away.

Dashboard does not detect stuff that crashes your game. Could also simply be too many for your system.

Also if your also using mods and not just cc, something could be outdated.

I have no mods and all the CC does nothing. I had more previously, but removed alot of it. 

Well, if it's not your cc either, then I don't know. Sorry

Maybe someone else can help you further.