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mspinkberry08's avatar
12 years ago
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Sims 3 crashing back to desktop within a hour of play

To anyone that can help me! Haha...here goes: I have Windows 8 and I have TS3 + Pets, University, and Showtime: Katy Perry. I used to have those plus World Adventures, Late Night and Ambitions insta...
  • crinrict's avatar
    12 years ago

    Seems you have a dual-graphics system. You have a Nvidia 660M and a Intel graphics chip. The graphics chips drivers are very old and could do with an update. Not sure about the Nvidia one cause that doesn't show in your DxDiag.

    Check if your graphic card is properly recognized by the game:

    http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/06/getting-the-game-to-recognize-your-card.html

    Make sure it's not running on the Intel while you play the game.

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