I did the first things you suggested and still crashed so I removed the The Sims 3 folder and it seems like it worked. It was on for over an hour without any issues at all. I believe that means that it's some custom content that's at fault here, right? What should my next steps be? I would prefer to keep playing with custom content as it enhances my interest in the game a lot.
@YFloover The next step would be testing your custom content to see what's causing the crashes. If you can remember what categories of clothing or hair you were using when the game crashed, you might be able to narrow it down, for example maybe looking at YA female formal outfits causes crashes, so you can exclude any outfits for males or children. But if there are multiple bad items, it may be more difficult to find the cause.
Whether you can narrow things down or not, the 50/50 method may speed things up, at least for .package-based content: test half your custom content, and if it's fine, test half of the remaining half. If the game crashes, split the batch you just added in half and test that. Continue until you've narrowed down the source of the problem. If there's only one bad file, it shouldn't take that long to find it, for example a thousand cc items can be sorted this way in ten tests. If there are multiple files, it would take longer, although not necessarily twice as many tests, since you can still set aside any batch of cc that doesn't cause problems.
For cc installed in .Sims3Pack form, it's a bit more complicated, since you need to test the entire bundled .dbc file (in DCCache) at once. There's no way to split its contents. Method by Mell, on this page, may help, with the twist that instead of examining the .dbc files one at a time in the launcher, you're testing them one at a time in-game, at least at first. You can uninstall any problem items through the launcher once you've identified them.
https://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2011/01/tutorial-how-to-get-rid-of-unwanted-custom-content.html
Hey so I have the same problem but I have absolutely no cc ... I've tried so many different things but it still crashes
@1107005 Please move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop. When you launch the game, a clean folder will spawn with no content. Don't add anything to it yet; just see whether the game crashes in CAS again.
If it does, please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.
https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/
Thanks so much. It worked , it's still lags but atleast it doesnt crash , so once again thanks 🙂
