12 years ago
The Sims 3 keeps crushing
So I bought 2 new expansion packs a few days ago. I enter the game and play something like 5 minutes and the the screen just turning black and after few seconds the computer asking me if I want to se...
Your CPU is fine, your RAM is ok for the 32 bit OS you have but with games you've played for a while, the game usually starts to have issues cause it uses more RAM than you have.
Your graphics card is underpowered according to this: http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:TS3_System_Requirements. Also the drivers are from March. Nvidia had quite a few upgrades on their cards although that might not apply to XP.
Is this a new game you're playing or have you been playing it for a while ?