Sims 3 crash

@MisterSidternay  Have you taken steps to limit your in-game framerates?  If not, and you'd like help with this, let me know.  If you have done this, please confirm that the imposed limit is working by bringing up the cheats console (ctrl-shift-C) and entering fps on .  The fps counter will appear in the upper-right corner.

If this doesn't or didn't help, please test with no mods other than those from NRaas, and if you use NRaas StoryProgression, turn it down to the lowest setting.  You don't need to save your progress.

If this doesn't help either, let me know what world(s) you're playing in.  Please also let me know how much RAM Sims 3 is using immediately after you load a save and the game clock starts running, and how much it uses after about 20 real-time minutes.  You can put the game into windowed mode (but don't minimize it) and have a look at the Task Manager.

I would like to note, I have the alder lake patch mod because without it my game would not launch. Could that be a possible cause? It was the only thing changed from the original files transferred from my laptop.

@MisterSidternay  Did you transfer the game's program files from the old laptop?  If so, it would be best to repair them.  For a Steam install, the option is called "Verify integrity of the game files" and is somewhere under Properties.  For a disc install, you'd need to run the EA-provided Super Patch:

http://akamai.cdn.ea.com/eadownloads/u/f/sims/sims3/patches/TS3_1.67.2.0240xx_update.exe

Either one would undo the effects of the Alder Lake patch, but the patch itself shouldn't be an issue because it only affects the game in the first few seconds of loading.

Aside from that, my original questions still stand.

Thank you for these responses I appreciate it. So I took the mods out instead of nrass and other ones I needed because it would break the game if I removed it. The game actually crashed not long after it loaded, I went into map view and it crashed. That is something I did notice, all the random crashes happened when the camera was moving (going into map view or switching to a different sim). I was watching the rap usage, when the game launched it was at around 2 gb of ram and crept up as I played until it crashed. Also my save is in Hidden Springs.

@MisterSidternay  How much RAM was the game using the last time you looked before it crashed?  2 GB is fine, and 3.0 GB should be fine, but 3.5 is the beginning of the danger zone.

Separately, what other mods are you using that you can't remove?

It never reached 3 gb, max I saw was like 2.5. The other mod that can't be removed is kinky world.

@MisterSidternay  That mod might be the issue here.  It's known to cause save corruption and also to be incompatible with a number of NRaas mods, in various ways.  I don't know that you can fix the save from here, although there's no harm in trying.

I would suggest though that if you're willing to play without it (and I know the alternatives aren't quite the same), that you use a new Sims 3 folder to do so.  I've read previous reports of KW corrupting user folders and affecting new saves even after it's removed, although that may not be an issue anymore.  Still, it's simple enough to switch folders, and transfer your Store content if necessary, when you're starting a save that's not going to use the mod.

But I had the same mod folder with kinky world on my laptop and I had no crash issues, how would it have problems on a much more powerful computer?

@MisterSidternay  The mod doesn't necessarily break anything in particular at any particular moment.  What the mod does do is it affects your save as the game goes on AND doesn't include any way to clean up old or bad data, and the game itself can't clean it up either.  If you want a more technical summary, please see this post:

https://www.nraas.net/community/post75587?sid=257a8d0e8322a6764311e604b5869e1c#p75587

The point is that when playing with the mod, your save is constantly at risk.  It could be fine for a while, it could break right away, it could have small problems right away that snowball into large problems later.

I don't tell people what mods they should or shouldn't use, but I do want to emphasize that there's a very large sample size demonstrating that KW causes problems eventually, and that it's not compatible with NRaas mods.  If you like it enough to play with it anyway, that's entirely your choice; just understand that there's a trade-off.