Re: Sims 4 Crashing
@ricaa396 While 50% is a bit high, and 72% is very high, the only service I see that you'd absolutely want to disable on startup is Edge. That doesn't mean Edge won't work, only that it won't open on its own and start eating RAM when you're not even using it. Personally, I'd disable the EA App on startup too, but that won't make a difference to Sims 4 since you'll need to open the launcher anyway. If you want to get rid of OneDrive, that's a whole endeavor, but entirely doable; let me know if you'd like help with the process.
The other thing worth doing here is increasing the computer's page file size. This is a portion of the system drive set aside for spillover data from RAM. When physical memory (RAM) is full, the processor sends the data that apps are using but that isn't in use right at that moment to the page file, and recalls it as necessary. Your computer's page file is somewhat small, and if it's artificially capped, that could also be the reason Sims 4 is crashing, although I still think 72% memory use on startup is far too high. Anyway, here's how to increase the page file size (option three):
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/manage-virtual-memory-paging-file-in-windows-11.8618/#Three
Set the minimum to 12000 and the max to 16384, save the change, and restart your computer.
Longer term, 16 GB RAM would be nice to have, and it should prevent these crashes if they are in fact memory-related. But right now, that's merely a (strong) theory, not proven. If the game stops crashing when the page file is increased, that's reasonably conclusive. And then adding more RAM will help overall performance: paging data out of RAM and back again is much slower than leaving everything in RAM, and another 8 GB should hold all the data your computer is trying to store in memory.
If, on the other hand, you get more crashes, that means the problem is elsewhere. You might still want to install more RAM for other reasons; I'm just saying it wouldn't help here if the crashes aren't memory-related.
