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nellyrozayy
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2 days ago

My game keeps crashing randomly !

Hey, so my game has been crashing for a while. There is no specific action or thing I do that makes it crash it just does and it's making my gameplay so draining and I keep losing progress if I dont save in time. I don't know if it has anything to do with mods, cc or just my pc in general. I have windows 11 and I play on a AMD mini PC. I can send more info if you need it but please help me figure this out because I've had enough of this. I've attached my dxdiag.

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  • nellyrozayy's avatar
    nellyrozayy
    Seasoned Novice
    17 hours ago

    Here’s a screenshot.

  • nellyrozayy's avatar
    nellyrozayy
    Seasoned Novice
    17 hours ago

    How do I do that and how do I know if it needs  upgrading.

  • I suspect a VRAM issue. You can either increase it by going into your BIOS settings or upgrade the hardware. When VRAM (vitrual memory from your GPU) runs out it either crashes the app or cause BSOD. Just a theory. Good luck! 

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    nellyrozayy
    Seasoned Novice
    2 days ago

    I remember that BSOD and it was during my gameplay. 

    These are from 12/21 Reliability Monitor error details.

    Source
    The Sims™ 4

    Summary
    Stopped working

    Date
    ‎12/‎21/‎2025 11:22 AM

    Status
    Report sent

    Description
    Faulting Application Path:    C:\Program Files\EA Games\The Sims 4\Game\Bin\TS4_x64.exe

    Problem signature
    Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
    Application Name:    TS4_x64.exe
    Application Version:    1.120.117.1030
    Application Timestamp:    691dd246
    Fault Module Name:    TS4_x64.exe
    Fault Module Version:    1.120.117.1030
    Fault Module Timestamp:    691dd246
    Exception Code:    c0000005
    Exception Offset:    00000000011e02f0
    OS Version:    10.0.26200.2.0.0.256.48
    Locale ID:    1033
    Additional Information 1:    c1a2
    Additional Information 2:    c1a2db809eadacca3b214e052405af32
    Additional Information 3:    1a60
    Additional Information 4:    1a60d9d37270ada03ba8baf45ebd66a1

    Extra information about the problem
    Bucket ID:    c29d51cc8deaed7f47521c17c732dc70 (1680436499414441072)

    The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.  The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff8038f46f7b0, 0x0000000000000000, 0xffffffffffffffff). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\122125-11265-01.dmp. Report Id: 6c4df239-b7f7-4f31-873b-3d1209496559.

    The previous system shutdown at 7:03:39 PM on ‎12/‎21/‎2025 was unexpected.

    Source
    Windows

    Summary
    Shut down unexpectedly

    Date
    ‎12/‎21/‎2025 7:38 PM

    Status
    Report sent

    Problem signature
    Problem Event Name:    BlueScreen
    Code:    1e
    Parameter 1:    ffffffffc0000005
    Parameter 2:    fffff8038f46f7b0
    Parameter 3:    0
    Parameter 4:    ffffffffffffffff
    OS version:    10_0_26200
    Service Pack:    0_0
    Product:    256_1
    OS Version:    10.0.26200.2.0.0.256.48
    Locale ID:    1033

    Extra information about the problem
    Bucket ID:    AV_nt!KiRetireDpcList

    Below is from 12/13 2:59pm

    Installation Failure: Windows failed to install the following update with error 0x800F0982: 2025-12 Security Update (KB5072033) (26200.7462).

    My game crashed again after I posted this but the Reliability Monitor still hasn't updated with those errors.

  • nellyrozayy​  Please test with no mods or custom content just to be thorough.  There's no definitive way to say whether a given crash was mod-related, at least not without live debugging and more knowledge of the Sims 4 code base than anyone on this site has.  But a crash with no mods or cc present (and no ReShade or GShade or anything else that goes in the Bin folder) would be definitive, and no crashes with all this content removed would be highly suggestive.

    There aren't any Sims 4-related errors in your dxdiag, just a bunch of generic Windows errors and one BlueScreen.  Did you see this BSOD, and if so, did it happen while you were playing or soon after?  It would have been relatively recent, but that could easily be a few days to a week ago.

    The next time you get a crash, whether with mods and cc or not, please look for new errors in the Reliability Monitor.  Click Windows key-R and enter "perfmon /rel" without quotes, and you'll see a chart of errors and updates with a column for each day.  Today is on the right.

    Look for an error that happened at exactly the time of your most recent Sims 4 crash.  If you find one, double-click it to see more details, then copy that info and paste it into a reply here.  If you don't see a new error, check back in an hour or so—the Reliability Monitor doesn't always update right away.