More Awesome Than You!

Long long time lurker... I don't talk much. :P

I have a problem that I can't figure out. My game crashes all the time after a while of play (sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes an hour... etc.). The error message that pops up says nothing but "This Application Has Crashed. Closing." or something.

I noticed the other day that I seemed to have more character files after it crashed so I kept an eye on it and yea, it's creating extra character files every time it crashes. And it shouldn't be, I mean... there's no new characters introduced or anything.

And then I noticed some weirdness in the file names (it may be normal, I don't know).. for example, my last two files in the character folder - N001_User00588.1.package & N001_User00588.package
Why are there 2 of them?

I don't mind re-starting the neighborhood, it's a fresh copy of Pleasantview anyway.. I just want to stop it from creating all the extra character files when the game crashes. (although stopping it from crashing would be nice too :P)

I'm playing with CC makeup only, BV hacks from this site, Inge's teleporter shrug, and SimWardrobes vegetable and fish packing stations and that's it.

Have you downloaded and installed any lots with sims already on them?

nope... I've created 2 YA sims, in CAS, but that's it.

After I installed my fresh copy of PV, I did install a house from a packaged file but it was my own house and had no sims (wasn't even a finished house).

How much RAM do you have?  I've read of similar crashes being caused by insufficient memory.

1.5 gig... I know I probably need more but I'm not all that concerned about the crashing... it's annoying but I can live with it. I'm just concerned about the extra character files being created every time it crashes.

As I understand it the 'extra' character files are merely the old broken file and a new one the game has created to work with. Is it always the same character file? If it is then maybe there is something intrinsically wrong with that Sim. Although what that could be I do not know.

If you see files of that form, delete the smaller of the offending ones and remove the .1 from the filename if it was the larger one.

Sounds supspiciously like the nVIDIA driver bug to me. Do you perchance have a GeForce graphic card? If so, change driver to the 94.24 driver, that one fixed those crashes for the majority of the nVIDIA card users.