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storywriter27
Seasoned Adventurer
2 months ago

Game Crashing a Lot

I've been having a lot of trouble with the game crashing lately, enough so that it's getting hard to play.  In the past, I've had families I've played for 10+ generations, and now I can barely manage to get through one generation without the crashing happening.  I've been playing Sims since the original, before all the expansion packs were out, so over a couple of decades now, and I have never had as much crashing as recently.

I play PC, no mods, no CC, just a bunch of the packs.  It started recently, not linked to any particular pack that I noticed.  I can start a brand new save and it won't crash for a while, but by the time the house starts getting bigger and they start getting more stuff (gardening, paintings for the walls, skill objects, etc), it starts crashing.  I like to try completing collections, but I can't have those exhibited most of the time, they have to be in an inventory space/chest/household inventory.  Sometimes I can play for several sims' days without it crashing, but other times it is crashing a couple times a day.

I can't really play the game this way.  I keep trying different saves to see if it'll work, but this has reached a point where I can't even play anymore because of all the crashing.

 

  • Windows 11 Home
  • 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
  • 32.0 GB RAM installed, speed: 5600 MT/s
  • 1.86 TB storage
  • Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-14900KF (3.20 GHz)
  • NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070
crashing
never cc or mods

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  • holger1405's avatar
    holger1405
    Hero+
    2 months ago

    storywriter27​ 

    The two errors 0x141 and 0x113 are graphics/DirectX subsystem errors,  0x144 is a USB3 driver error, all of them are system-wide errors, so I doubt that the game is the main culprit here. 

    1.  Follow this manual to the letter to clean uninstall all NVIDIA/AMD graphic driver components.
      IMPORTANT: if you use a Pin to log into Windows 11 don't use DDU in safe mode!
      Use it in your normal Windows session.
    2. Install the graphics driver > Go online.
    1. Test.
  • storywriter27's avatar
    storywriter27
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 months ago

    crinrict​ I was not painting specifically at the time of the last crash, although there may have been unfinished paintings on the easel.  I do have my sims paint a lot for money, so all of the houses would have easels.

    holger1405​ I followed these steps and will try playing and see if it crashes again.  Thank you!

  • storywriter27's avatar
    storywriter27
    Seasoned Adventurer
    2 months ago

    crinrict​ and holger1405​ 

    I tried again after the steps given to do the clean install of graphics drivers.  It went about like it did yesterday - I can play longer, mostly works like it should, but then it still crashed.  Today it crashed when I sent the sims home from the romance festival.

    The game did not have a LastException for today's crash, so I just uploaded the LastCrash again.  Here is the link to the updated report.  https://drive.google.com/file/d/11fgNqHOJTSlwLfKznZ333Pf04m1a0zc1/view?usp=drive_link

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