Sims 4 Blue Screening

@LausCassidy  Please run a dxdiag and attach it to a post.  Among (many) other things, it'll list any BlueScreen codes in the list of the last ten Windows errors.

https://help.ea.com/en/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information/

In the future, you can also get more info about a BlueScreen from the Reliability Monitor.  Hit 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.  Right-click on any BSOD entry and select "Show technical details," and you'll see the error code and some other basic info.  Whether that data is actually informative is kind of a crapshoot.

If you see any interesting entries in the Reliability Monitor, feel free to copy and paste the info into a reply as well.

Hi there,

I'm so sorry I'm only getting back to this now, the notification landed in my spam and I only found it this past weekend.

I hadn't really even had the chance to play the Sims since my last post, so I started the game up to see if it'd maybe miraculously fixed itself, unfortunately it bluescreened before I could even hit the play button.

I have attached the file of the dxdiag report for you, and I had a look at the reliability monitor which had the following information from my blue screen that just happened.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000001e (0xffffffffc0000005, 0xfffff80454a004c7, 0xffffab02a248ea58, 0xffffd7014e499920). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP.

Do you know if this means anything?

Any help would be seriously appreciated!

Thanks,

Lauren

@LausCassidy  Bug check 1e means that a kernel-mode program caused the error, but it doesn't specify which one.  Your dxdiag also lists a few in page errors, which are usually related to an issue with the hard drive/solid state drive or memory.  So I'd suggest you look there first.  For the drives:

• Hit Windows key-X
• Choose either “PowerShell (Administrator)” or “Windows Terminal (Administrator),” whichever option is offered
• Inside the window that appears, copy and paste "chkdsk /f /r c:" without quotes, and enter
• You'll be asked to allow a restart; say yes
• When the scan is done, use this guide to find the results
• Repeat for drive D: use "chkdsk /f /r d:" without quotes

You should be able to attach the report to a post as well.  Running chkdsk will take some time, so you may want to leave it while you're doing something else.

For the RAM, the gold standard is MemTest86, testing each module separately and in at least two different slots on the motherboard.

https://www.memtest86.com/index.html

https://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/memtest86_memory_guide/

Since this is time-consuming, you can start with chkdsk and see what you get, and you can also use Microsoft's built-in memory diagnostics first:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/ff700221(v=msdn.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

I wouldn't consider a pass from this tool to be even close to definitive, but if it does flag an error, that's probably accurate.

Finally, I'd like to know what RAM you're using, by product number.  If you don't have that handy, you can find it on the modules themselves.