Random Crash to Desktop

[J. M. Pescado]

I am also having this problem, of Sims random crashing to desktop, however I have noticed that happens from installing other mods, after AM. If I remove packages/mods etc installed after AM, I have no problem

That does tend to be the cause of crashing, yes.

[Anach]

So far I've experienced a couple age related CTD, which are easily fixed by the "resetage" command on the sims listed in via the "listagers" command. However, since last night, it seems to be any age-up event that is causing CTD. Unless something major has broken, the only other reason I can think of is that it's something to do with the sims being some of the original townies that are now dying off and were possibly corrupt. The only thing I have noticed with the last two age-up related CTD is that each contained a death event. The first time, one sim was an elder service npc, the second time an elder town sim, which were both scheduled to die, but instead CTD. If I forced them to age-up right away, it would CTD, however if i first "resetage", then aged them up manually back to where they were previously at, they would die off normally and without CTD. I'll probably see a few more CTD events from time to time until I've got rid of the original batch of townies.

[Madame Mim]

I had an aging up CTD recently - seems the hair my toddler had been given was corrupt somehow in child, because when I took the hair out no more CTD's.

[minafairbrook]

Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know I did figure out the problem eventually.
It was just a coincidence that it started happening when I installed Awesomemod. Im using it now and its all good.

I gave up for a while but eventually wanted to play it again so after googling enough I found out a lot of people have the issue and its an issue EA needs to actually patch and it usually DOESNT happen as soon as you get the game and so on. Someone made  a free fix for it, too. I figure if anyone with the same problem reads this itd be helpful to share the link-

http://soulfulsims.mybigcommerce.com/products/Sims-3-Crash-Fix.html

[Jessnova]

Ugh.  That's just a Large Address Aware fix for the stupid, marketed as a magic fix-all.  Since LAA was supposed to have been adjusted in LN, that 'fix' should be redundant.

[Jeebus]

I think you still have to adjust the config to allow the game to use the RAM, though.

[minafairbrook]

I dont really know much about it except I tried it and it works and I havent crashed since I started using it.

[MistyBlue]

After patching, this shit is happening to me again...I even reinstalled the whole damn game and I'm still getting the random crashes. I'm so fed up with this f-ing game.