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NameesaiLayy
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4 years ago
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Sims 3 Crashing

My Sims 3 game keeps crashing and I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with it. The Xcpt File says the DasmX86Dll.dll is missing but I have it on my laptop. This is what the file says exactly: [Build ...
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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    4 years ago

    @NameesaiLayy  I was actually going to suggest that if you get a scripterror with a timestamp from when or just before your game crashed, you take it to NRaas for interpretation.  You can upload a file there by dragging and dropping the file itself (not copying and pasting the text) into the reply window.  I'm not an expert at reading scripterrors, and the NRaas site offers excellent support for its mods.

    However, two things stand out from your scripterrors.  The first is that you have a couple of problem mods.  SimsMX's Hospital Overhaul is outdated and not compatible with patch 1.67.  It can corrupt your save sooner or later, so please remove it.  (The zodiac mod is apparently fine to use.)  Skydome's EveryoneCanCarryChild has been causing a number of issues, according to other people's scripterrors, so I'd suggest removing that as well.

    The other point about the scripterrors is that the errors themselves repeatedly reference Cherry's Toddler Interactions mod, so in your position, I'd pull that one too, at least for now.  I don't actually know whether the mod works well; it's just a useful test.  If you don't get any more crashes, you can add it back, without the other two mods, and see what happens.

    If you do get more crashes AND you have more scripterrors to share, please do so at NRaas so you're talking to the real experts.  And to be clear, the correction logs from when the game starts up are not relevant, they're just ErrorTrap reporting that it's doing its job.  The errors you want to ask about are those that happen in the run of gameplay and especially those that happen just before a crash.

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4 years ago

@NameesaiLayy  Sims 3 crash logs are generally useless, including the part about the missing .dll file.  Most or all of the crash logs say that, and it's not relevant.

What is relevant is this part:

Total virtual memory: 4095 Mb
Free virtual memory: 83 Mb

Here, virtual memory actually means the amount of RAM available to the game, and its free memory was almost zero at the time of the crash.  Sims 3 is a 32-bit app and can only use up to 4 GB memory, minus some overhead no matter how much you have installed.  Once you're close to that line, even a small spike can put the game over the limit, which will cause a crash.

Please load this save, let the game clock run for a few sim-minutes, then put the game in windowed mode.  Open the Task Manager and see how much memory Sims 3 is using.  Then start playing and check again after 10-20 realtime minutes, however long you think you can play before a crash.  Let me know what you see at each point—I'm curious about both how much RAM the save uses as soon as it's loaded and how quickly that value increases.

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NameesaiLayy
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4 years ago

1,780MB When it first starts up, 2,511MB after about 20 minutes. It crashes at random times but its stayed around 2,300-2,600 for the past hour.

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    puzzlezaddict
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    4 years ago

    @NameesaiLayy  The crash log you posted definitely had to do with memory, but it's possible that something within the game is triggering a massive RAM spike at odd intervals.  Do you use mods?  A mod could be doing this, but on the other hand, a couple of mods might be able to stop it, depending on the cause.  Specifically, I'd suggest trying NRaas ErrorTrap and Overwatch, and Register and Traffic are also a good idea.  And if those alone don't help, a MasterController town reset might do the trick.

    If you already have those mods, are you seeing any scripterrors aside from the usual one or two on startup?

    If you don't want to use mods, I'd suggest just keeping an eye on the Task Manager so that if and when the game crashes again, you can confirm (or not) that there was a corresponding spike in memory use.

    • NameesaiLayy's avatar
      NameesaiLayy
      New Traveler
      4 years ago

      I do have those mods and I do get scripterrors when I start the game I'm just not sure exactly what they mean. It wont allow me to link the files but i can copy and paste what they say there are three of them. The first two say the same thing.

      1:This page contains the following errors:

      error on line 91 at column 11: Opening and ending tag mismatch: None line 43 and Content

      Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.

      Object: Name: Fiona McIrish Type: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim Object id: 0xb97500c099d6a0b0 Position: (974.8712, 42.9382, 1074.0350) Room id: -1 Level: 2147483647 Flags: InWorld, IsUsed Lot: Sims3.Gameplay.Core.Lot Lot Name: Central Park Festival Grounds Lot Address: 210 Main Street IsValid: True World: SunsetValley OnVacation: False Season: Spring Posture: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim+StandingPosture Household: McIrish LotHome: Asilomar - 3br, 2ba SimDescription: Name: Fiona McIrish Age: Adult Gender: Female SimDescriptionId: 306 LotHomeId: 0 HomeWorld: SunsetValley Proper Genealogy Valid: False Species: Human Household: McIrish Occult: None Alien: 0 Career: ⚽ School:

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      <ModVersion value="100"/>
      <BuildVersion value="0.2.0.209"/>
      <Installed value="CurrentTip"/>
      <Enumerator value="3"/>
      <Content> -- Correction Logs -- Out of World Object Found 2: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro Out of World Object Found 2: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro Out of World Object Found 2: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro Out of World Object Found 2: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro SimDescription Removed: Kevin Godfrey SimDescription Removed: Laquita Valle SimDescription Removed: Aron Connelly SimDescription Removed: Ellie Destroyed: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro (ID=0xb97500c0747d4f20) Destroyed: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro (ID=0xb97500c0747d50b0) Destroyed: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro (ID=0xb97500c0747d4f10) Destroyed: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Tables.Mimics.TableDiningBistro (ID=0xb97500c0747d50a0) -- Dereferencing -- Destroyed Object Found: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim (Joshua Kretzer, V=True) (ID=0x0000000000000000, 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Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.InteractionInstance+InteractionPriorityChanged InteractionPriorityChangedCallback Bridge Reference: Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.InteractionInstance[] Bridge Reference: System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.InteractionInstance] Reference Ignore: Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems.InteractionQueue System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Sims3.Gameplay.Interactions.InteractionInstance] mInteractionList (Using DerefInteractionQueue) Ancillary Reference: Sims3.Gameplay.Actors.Sim (Jolene Ashley Mai Kretzer, V=True) (ID=0xb97500c0e50473d0, W=True, I=False) (Lot: 7787005350115304256, ) Sims3.Gameplay.ActorSystems.InteractionQueue mInteractionQueue Potential Object Found: Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Appliances.HotBeverageMachine+Cup (ID=0x0000000000000000, W=True, I=False) Bridge Reference: Sims3.Gameplay.Abstracts.GameObject[] Bridge Reference: System.Collections.Generic.List`1[Sims3.Gameplay.Abstracts.GameObject] UNHANDLED Reference: 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      • puzzlezaddict's avatar
        puzzlezaddict
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        4 years ago

        @NameesaiLayy  I was actually going to suggest that if you get a scripterror with a timestamp from when or just before your game crashed, you take it to NRaas for interpretation.  You can upload a file there by dragging and dropping the file itself (not copying and pasting the text) into the reply window.  I'm not an expert at reading scripterrors, and the NRaas site offers excellent support for its mods.

        However, two things stand out from your scripterrors.  The first is that you have a couple of problem mods.  SimsMX's Hospital Overhaul is outdated and not compatible with patch 1.67.  It can corrupt your save sooner or later, so please remove it.  (The zodiac mod is apparently fine to use.)  Skydome's EveryoneCanCarryChild has been causing a number of issues, according to other people's scripterrors, so I'd suggest removing that as well.

        The other point about the scripterrors is that the errors themselves repeatedly reference Cherry's Toddler Interactions mod, so in your position, I'd pull that one too, at least for now.  I don't actually know whether the mod works well; it's just a useful test.  If you don't get any more crashes, you can add it back, without the other two mods, and see what happens.

        If you do get more crashes AND you have more scripterrors to share, please do so at NRaas so you're talking to the real experts.  And to be clear, the correction logs from when the game starts up are not relevant, they're just ErrorTrap reporting that it's doing its job.  The errors you want to ask about are those that happen in the run of gameplay and especially those that happen just before a crash.

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