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@ravenosky12 wrote:
- At what point does your game crash? Any regularities?: My game crashes after I press the play button and before the window even pops up. (I watch my processes in Windows Task manager and I see ts3ep07.exe and ts3w.exe show up in the list, then werfault.exe shows up in the list and then all 3 end.
werfault.exe is the Windows Error Reporting Tool. It would be helpful to us to see what error is displayed. In order to do so:
- Click on Start and then type the following into the search prompt at the bottom: perfmon /rel
- Press Enter to proceed.
- A window will open and in there you can click on the red circles with a white X.
- After clicking the X, the info on the bottom will update. Choose the Sims 3 Critical Event one and right click on it and choose "View Technical Details"
- Now on the next window, choose Copy to clipboard at the very bottom and post this into a reply to us here.
Cheers,
Nils
Source
TS3EP07.exe
Summary
Stopped working
Date
2/27/2014 12:00 PM
Status
Report sent
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\Packs\TS3EP07\TS3EP07.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: TS3EP07.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 00000000
Fault Module Name: PAUL.DLL
Fault Module Version: 4.1.1.19
Fault Module Timestamp: 4c4dcdca
Exception Code: c0000094
Exception Offset: 0001bd7b
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 014c
Additional Information 2: 014cdb62d2c0db8736fb2baaaa5f4199
Additional Information 3: f3d6
Additional Information 4: f3d64d0acc16846beccfb217bb6cafd1
Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 3141021147
- EA_Nils12 years ago
Community Admin
Yeah that is actually interesting. Someone had the exact error beforehand last year (just with TS3Ep09.exe): http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/Please-help-Paul-dll-crashing-my-game/td-p/1089370
Unfortunately they never came back to us after crinrict recommended the following:
@crinrict wrote:
Did you try the factory reset described in this post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps/td-p/714/ ?
Can you try this out and report back?
- morrighanblake12 years agoNew RookieIt isn't helping. I did the factory reset, it still crashes before the game even opens up.
- EA_Nils12 years ago
Community Admin
Does the game have administrator rights?
(Right click the shortcut > Properties > Compatibility > Privilege Level => Run this program as an administrator > OK)
Alternatively, you could try running the game through the Origin client. I am assuming you are using the Sims 3 Launcher currently.
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