The Sims 3 Seasons/1.42 Crashes Game No Matter What...

• Do you have any existing games you could try ?
• Do you have a switchable card in your computer ?
• Did you have ANY issues at all before installing the new patch ?

Gave you XP for the very detailed error report. Wish everyone would post like you.

Thank you. 🙂

My computer plays all other games just fine. By switchable card do you mean graphics card? Its a high performance graphics card, Nvidia GeForce 285 I *think*, can't say for sure at the moment. And no I didn't have any issues before installing Seasons and the new patch. The game was running wonderfully before. I have a few more things to try to get it working before I absolutely am out of ideas. I'll see if it will run on my laptop at all (32 bit, not Nvidia), then I will try installing only the base game and Seasons on my desktop and see if I get the same issue or not. And I will also test if Installing all my games then the 1.42 patch gives me the same error I've been getting when trying to run Seasons. 

-I can uninstall everything, then re-install everything but Seasons and the game will work just fine. 

Im having the same problems,

I have just bought the game today - Supernatural works smoothly, but when i load up Seasons, Boom, get to the choose a town screen, i choose a town and then it stops working, it gets to about 98% loaded then i get the 'The sims 3 has stopped working' i cant even play the game :/

What could the problem be, is it worth Uninstalling then re-installing :/

It's horrible, such a waste of time when it dosent work. I have removed all my mods and everything and still, nothing :/

@chalavange:

- By switchable card I do mean the graphic card. What I mean is if you have a graphic chip as well as a card and if the game might be using the wrong one all of a sudden (although I think that is rather unlikely if it just seasons that is giving you trouble.

With existing games I mean pre-seasons save games. Can you run those and just not new ones or can't you run those either ?

@shannonp93: 

It's best to make your own thread.

Have you tried all the stuff here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Game-Crashes-CTD/td-p/656/ ?

• What is your operating system
• At what point does your game crash ? Any regularities ?
• How long can you usually play ?
• Which EP/SPs do you have installed ?
• Are you using custom content and mods in your game ?
• It's also good to include your DxDiag: https://help.ea.com/article/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information

I am having the exact same problem. Like you said, I choose a town and about a quarter of the way it crashes, saying "Sims 3 has stopped working." Exactly what happens to me.

I've tried everything, uninstalled custom content, even uninstalled Seasons but even without the expansion pack, my game STILL doesn't work. It's frusterating and now I can't play my game...at all.

I know your pain -_-

Try the factory reset described in this post: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-3/FAQ-Troubleshooting-Steps/td-p/714/