More Awesome Than You!

Greetings.

I am nonawesome but have enjoyed the awesomemod for some time now. My game has been freezing (must shut down from task manager; START button does not switch to desktop) or crashing to desktop perodically for a while. Then, recently I installed Ambitions, updated to the latest patch, and installed the latest version of awesomemod. At this point, crashes became more frequent, until I stopped being able to play at all. My game would just freeze up.

I tried troubleshooting to figure out what is causing the crash. Short answer is that with awesomemod it freezes. Without it, it doesn't. Does anyone have any ideas what this might be? I can provide additional information if that would be helpful.

I can run the game without awesomemod, but that's just so... not awesome.

Thanks for any assistance.

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I'm probably going to get jumped on from a great height for asking this question - but did you move your mods folder when you set up Ambitions?

Are you sure your crashes aren't RAM-related? Because if they've always happened, and installing a new expansion, thus eating more RAMs, made it worse, that could be why.

MadameMim - I did remove my mods when I installed the new EP. (I always do, for new EPs and patches so now it's habit!)

Tyrannosaur of Doom - I have 12 gig of RAM. Is that enough? (I finally gave in and bought a gaming system, after Sims 2 ate my laptop.) I figured it wasn't a system failure, since it seems to run fine if I take out AM. That's what is so weird. I took out any other hacks I was running (mostly added sliders for CAS), so that the only thing I was running AM with was no intro and transparent baby bottle, so it doesn't seem like it would be a conflict...

Do you think reinstalling the EP might help? I can always try that.

It looks like the game saved an xcpt file (exception?) to my sims folder. Would any of that info be helpful?

I was wondering if others were having this problem, but it sounds like it's just me, so it must have been something I did. Hmph.

I used the Easy-Patch Downloader to force LAA. There have been lots of reports that the game's 2GB RAM limit has caused excessive crashing.
Worked like a charm for me.

There's that and the whole DAP nonsense too. Addressing both are probably worth a shot.

I am not sure if this applies to you I just bought both high end loft and ambitions yesterday installed both updated and game froze at loading screen especially after getting a non critical core mismatch error. Finally I uninstalled everything and tried all over again with a clean install got the same thing. I kept reading through posts not finding anything. Finally I tried something that worked instead of downloading from mirror 1, I tried downloading from mirror 3 and to my surprise no error message and game loaded fine now to go through and put all my custom content back in that ought to take a month or two

***note to J. M. Pescado****

Please check mirror 1 maybe for some reason it got a bad copy I've noticed many people are running into problems when they are saying they have tried everything else. Don't know if it's just me or not that had this exact same problem but worth a shot.

All the mirrors are resynced hourly, so if you managed to get something bad then, it is probably gone now. Your issue may have simply been a bad download, the kind that sometimes gets mangled in transit.

Well, smack my ass and call me happy! It looks like that was it. Thanks for the help!

   I'm having the same issue with the game crashing. It only started when I installed Ambitions. At first I thought it was an issue with AM not being compatible with Ambitions. I've since then had one or two patches and several AM updates. Still, no good. My game will not run for more than a minute or two before it crashes to desk top. Sadly, I had to take AM out, every week or so, I put it back in hoping everything has resolved its self. No such luck. My computer has plenty of RAM, disk space, and a great graphics card, so I know it's not an issue with my computer.
   Also, I've tried all three mirrors, so thats not the problem either. Not many people seem to be having this issue, so I'm not sure it's even a AM thing. I've also taken all my CC out, just to make sure that wasn't the issue. It is related to Ambitions, because AM ran fine when I uninstalled Ambitions.
   If anyone figures it out, please let the rest of us know. I'd love to get my AM back.

Have you addressed the RAM problem? http://hokage.org/content/sims-3-constant-game-crash-fix  Try this. I have Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and 4 G RAM and it was constantly freezing and crashing until I 'fixed' it.