Random Crash to Desktop

[minafairbrook]

I've searched this site's for a week or so trying to find an answer or solution for whats going on lately. I have the recent, I believe test version of awesomemod since the last patch and got it to run and not give me an error message at the beginning. Before that began everything was all good, and I liked the autosave feature and little config I made for the mod, everything worked great. All of a sudden my game would crash in a second to the desktop, no error message, no lag, nothing to explain it. I tried everything from deleting and re-installing awesomemod. Ive also used the modthesims framework helper, and have a "dashboard" thingy that shows if any of my mods/packages conflict.
Ive tried everything from changing the time which the auto save occurs to disabling it see if maybe the custom options i had chose were causing some kind of conflict. when i disabled that, it still happens. I pretty much do a save every 10 minutes or so just to be safe. I cant really say how far in between the crashes happen, possibly every 20 to 40 minutes if I dont save every 10 as odd as that sounds. possibly coincidence. Im still trying to browse through all the threads here for an answer, but Im having no luck. Sorry to have to ask, I know its a pain in the ass.

[J. M. Pescado]

I haven't seen anything that would trigger a random crash to desktop, particularly as relatively little actually CHANGED in the patch, and many things could possibly be the cause of your crashing. However, I will keep this issue in mind if I see anything that looks like it.

[minafairbrook]

Ah, alright. Thanks for responding. I also dont have any other mods (just like clothes and furnishing) . I'll try to look for another solution. Maybe remove Awesomemod and see if it still happens. I mean, considering it did work just fine for a while. Hell, maybe even re-install the game if it persists. I have a gaming pc that runs the game itself really well, so I ruled that out. I figured it may be your mod since it hadnt happened prior to using it for a bit. Guess I was wrong. Thanks again.

[StormchaserOne]

Pescado it does happen even without mods.  And, has been reported several times throughout EA Forums.

Cause is Windows 7 64 bit. 

Mina let me guess you have Windows 7 64 bit.

[The_Goddess]

Pescado it does happen even without mods.  And, has been reported several times throughout EA Forums.

Cause is Windows 7 64 bit. 

Mina let me guess you have Windows 7 64 bit.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit.  I fail to see how that could be the cause of game crashes.  If it were, why am I and many others not experiencing this too?  If we are looking for common denominators here, I think we need to dig a bit lower. 

[spaceface]

I am having a random crash to desktop and I suspect it is either hardware or Windows. I am trying various configurations of hardware at the moment, as I have just put in a new graphics card and extra RAMS.

[The_Goddess]

I would believe the graphics card to be the culprit, before I would blame Windows.  I had to replace one recently.  I had crashes all over the place, and not just with Sims, then the card went completely haywire and gave me white screen.   New card, no problems.  Keep in mind, my card was defective and giving me grief all over the place.  Checking driver updates and compatibility is always a good place to start.   

[wizard_merlin]

I am running Windows 7 64-Bit, and while I have had the occasional CTD, I also had random CTD while using Vista and even with TS2 running on XP.  I can go weeks without a problem, then it might happen a couple of times in one night, then not again for weeks, even months.

I tend to agree with Goddess and tngrspacecadet, I would be blaming other factors before labeling Windows 7 64-Bit as the culprit, not enough users complaining about CTD's to narrow it down yet.  I could also simply be EA game instability which is simply more evident and prone to problems on certain systems.

[gelfling]

I use Windows 7 x64 and do not experience any random crashes to desktop. I applied the latest patch for TS3 on Thursday and since then it will almost always crash to desktop if I want to save my game. No .bad file is produced and no .backup file is made; it pretends to save for about 5 seconds before disappearing without a trace. I have TS3, WA and HELS, a few mods, numerous patterns and a few custom content objects. I have checked for updates for all of these and suspect that one of these will need to be removed at least until the culprit has been updated to be compatible with the latest patch.

Windows 7 x64 is stable for the most part even when it comes to running TS3.

[MistyBlue]

I'm having the crash. It happened 4 times today. I was building a lot and I zoomed out to see it and it CTD, then I went back in, built the damn thing again, zoomed out and it did it again. Thankfully I was smart enough to save frequently. The last 2 times it happened was when I was about to take pictures of the lot, so again, zooming.

I am running a Win7 x64 laptop, 8GB RAM, with a supported video card. I have WA And HELS installed, the test version of AM, and no other mods. This is the first time I have experienced this type of crash.

[StormchaserOne]

Those crashing I was on countless hours with customer support from Nvidia and EA.  We made sure I have no more crashes.  With SIMS 3 it was a combinition of Windows 7 64 bit and the Nvidia GeForce card drivers.  There is a new update for Nvidia drivers so update. No more problems.  It was a fan problem which caused SIMS 3 to crash.

[J. M. Pescado]

Fan problem? You mean "not constantly running the fan at FULL SPEED", eh?

[wizard_merlin]

Sounds like the same issue coconnor mentioned here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,18219.0.html about a month ago.

Not quite sure why Windows 7 64-Bit can be blamed for bad drivers from Nvidia, but maybe I am missing something.

[StormchaserOne]

It is a complexity of things.

[Build info]
Application: Sims3
BuildTime:   2010-03-15-2102
BuildUser:   codebuilder
BuildHost:   SIMS-BUILD139
BuildConfig: Release
BuldVersion: 0.2.0.98
Commandline: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff\Game\Bin\TS3SP01.exe


[System info]
Computer name:
Computer DNS name:
User name:
EA_PLATFORM: Windows on X86
OS name: Windows Vista
OS version number: 6.0.6000
OS service pack:
Debugger present: no
CPU count: 8
Processor type: x86
Processor level: 6
Processor revision: 7685
Memory load: 40%
Total physical memory: 8183 Mb
Available physical memory: 4847 Mb
Total page file memory: 16364 Mb
Available page file memory: 12674 Mb
Total virtual memory: 2047 Mb
Free virtual memory: 105 Mb

[Application info]
Language: C++
Compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, version 1400
App path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff\Game\Bin\TS3SP01.exe
App version: 0.2.0.98

[Exception info]
date: 2010-04-06
time: 07.38.45
type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000014
address: 0x005cd1c1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff\Game\Bin\TS3SP01.exe":0x0001:0x001cc1c1

[Call stack]
Callstack not available

[Stack data]
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[Instruction data]
005cd141 => DasmX86Dll.dll not found.

[Registers]
eip: 005cd1c1
eax: 84b23c2b
ebx: 00000000
ecx: 268ee429
edx: 00000000
esi: 41e824e0
edi: 0821e5c0
ebp: 00000000
efl: 00010287
esp: 0227f618

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[Extra]
ScriptHeap: 71.54MB/75.96MB (12); 9.21MB

[The_Goddess]

Don't confuse the 12s.  We already knew that Nvidia has driver issues.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17051.0.html
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,17536.0.html
If  you are still using Nvidia, expect an occasional problem.  My advice… Go Shopping!

[lordrichter]

Sometimes people who are running Windows 7 x64 run into problems with games, including Sims 3, because they are not large address aware and the computer has 4GB or more RAM.  Sometimes setting the executable to be large address aware can fix random CTDs.

[StormchaserOne]

http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php

1) Download and install CFF Explorer (http://www.ntcore.com/exsuite.php)

2) Run the program, click the folder icon or go to FILE >> OPEN and browse your PC for the Sims 3 exe (TS3.exe) usually found at C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin

Make a backup of your original exe just incase something goes wrong.

3) Click on File Header at the left, find characteristics at the right and click the "Click here" blue button.

4) Tick "App can handle >2GB address space

5) Ok that and save by clicking the disk icon or going to FILE >> SAVE. Overwrite the file when it asks you to.

This fixed the problem of me crashing.  Thanks to Gohan2091 from Mod the Sims on spotting the problem.

[mel]

the ntcore tricks didn't worked for me.... (I tried with ts3.exe as well as all the main exe in the 2 other extension bin folder, just in case.)

Win7 64 bits
9gb ram
Nvidia (bbbooo !!! I guess) GeForce GTX260 (with latest driver)
processor i7 920@2.67 GHz

[Rainbow_Brite]

I've searched this site's for a week or so trying to find an answer or solution for whats going on lately. I have the recent, I believe test version of awesomemod since the last patch and got it to run and not give me an error message at the beginning. Before that began everything was all good, and I liked the autosave feature and little config I made for the mod, everything worked great. All of a sudden my game would crash in a second to the desktop, no error message, no lag, nothing to explain it. I tried everything from deleting and re-installing awesomemod. Ive also used the modthesims framework helper, and have a "dashboard" thingy that shows if any of my mods/packages conflict.
Ive tried everything from changing the time which the auto save occurs to disabling it see if maybe the custom options i had chose were causing some kind of conflict. when i disabled that, it still happens. I pretty much do a save every 10 minutes or so just to be safe. I cant really say how far in between the crashes happen, possibly every 20 to 40 minutes if I dont save every 10 as odd as that sounds. possibly coincidence. Im still trying to browse through all the threads here for an answer, but Im having no luck. Sorry to have to ask, I know its a pain in the ass.

I was also having this issue with my game and it would continuously crash. It didn't matter if I played for 2 hours or 30 min, it would would still crash straight to my desktop. I first made sure that all of my drivers were up to date but that didn't keep the game from crashing. I looked around different forums for about a week, and I found a solution that seems to have helped a lot of people with their games. The tutorials that I was reading were all over the place and for different OS's, so I combined all of the information and posted it in a tutorial. You can find it here: http://ts3.tscexchange.com/index.php?topic=1889.0 It seems that the game was having issues with the DEP. I'm not a computer tech, so I was nervous to try it, but since I have edited the permissions in the DEP my game has been crash free. I also found this method on the TS3 forums under the technical help. Doing this seems to be touch and go since it will work for some people and not others but it's worth it try.

[StormchaserOne]

Mel try using  "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff\Game\Bin\TS3SP01.exe" and create a shortcut.

[Claeric]

The NTcore thingy always gives my game serious stutter issues. Not sure why.

[spaceface]

I have done everything else and still have occasional crashes. Trying Rainbow Brite's suggestion now.

[StormchaserOne]

Claeric all you have to do is use it on the ts3sp01.exe do not use game launcher .exe
 

And do not click anything else but the 2GB.  And, save.

[minafairbrook]

I havent played since I made this post.

Yes. I have 7 and 64 bit. I also have an ATI video card. All my shit is way up to date. The game never used to crash. I guess I wont bother since there doesnt seem to be a solution.
*sigh* Why the hell did they invent 64 bit if games arent compatible with it, haha.
The same bullshit happens with EverQuest 2 (5 year veteran) I would still be playing but it always goddamn crashes. It seems that 64 bit was the problem.
Im going to look into finding out if I can go to 32 bit.
 


By the way, I apologize for assuming your mod was the problem.

Same crap happened with EQ2- hell for MONTHS I played the game perfectly, and then all of a sudden itd crash daily all the time and I had to give it up.

[soozelwoozel]

*sooze adblocks Rainbowbrite's annoying sig. Where do you think we are, boolprop?