Oh, come on! (Fixed now)

SimFan298 · July 2016

So I wanted to make two Sims who are twins. I spent an hour on them, perfecting them to my liking, and giving them a good story. I was proud of them, and ready to move them into Bridgeport. And guess what?

The game crashes.

THAT IS IT. An hour's worth of data... GONE! I really want to pull all my hair out right now. This was even worse than last time! I trained my twin toddlers everything they needed (and I hated it,) and the game crashes, making me have to teach them to use the potty, walk, and talk ALL OVER AGAIN. I gave up on that save file since I hate training toddlers.

And now I'm forced to give up on these twins because I don't feel like spending another hour recreating them, just to most likely have it stuck on never-ending processing again. Ugh! I'm so mad at this game right now!

inmyeye · July 2016

Yeah. You have my sympathies. Save. Save. And save again.

jaletu2005 · July 2016

I was just there last week! Got my sim through Uni and got that degree, got her working in the medicine field and *Whamo* game crashes! I had to redo the last week of Uni - ugh!

CravenLestat · July 2016

You cannot be mad at the game, Sims 3 was not designed to fail everyone.I just spent my time building a kitchen in my house putting my sim I created in it and shooting a video of her cooking different dishes and doing teppanyaki tricks.All without saving at all even slightly worrying my game will crash.All this with every expansion,store world and item,and stuff packs installed with several other browsers open during this plus listening to music and a video editing program running.And my video I just posted in another thread so these are not fairy tales.

Understand being upset but you cannot be mad a basketball cause you missed a freethrow.

thuggishsplicer · July 2016

It can happen in any game.
You should save your stuff more often. The beauty of The Sims is that you can play with different households and even in different The Sims games. When one "file" makes you mad, you can always open another one and play something different before coming back.

06Bon06 · July 2016

My game never crashes even after playing several hours...

LadyEmillye · July 2016

It's just a game.

If it's frustrating you, take a break from it and chillax. Go back when you are in a better mood to play, create and enjoy yourself.

My brothers get mad at their games too, which I find equal parts annoying and funny. Can't even talk to them cuz all they do is snap and grunt and punch the controller or throw it.

I mean, be upset and frustrated, cuz that's a lot of time and effort wasted, just step away and take a deep breath. I can't even tell you how many sims I've lost, how many homes, and it's very irritating, but sometimes, ya just gotta let it go.

nickibitsward · July 2016

Yes, when you least expect it the game will crash, lol! I don't usually get crashes in my game but the past week it was crash,crash, did it just crash? Are you kidding, again? Turned out the house I was trying to remodel and the sim I was playing with, an EA house and townie sim were probably glitched because as soon as I deleted the house and killed off the sim three days ago it hasn't crashed once. I've been playing a long time and seen more than enough game provided houses that don't work or sims that are problematic. I normally don't have problems when I create my own. If I do or it crashes I just suck it up and move on. Like I did playing Sims 2 and Sims 1. Take a breath and start again and hopefully you won't have any more problems with your twins.

Karritz · July 2016

SimFan298 wrote: »

So I wanted to make two Sims who are twins. I spent an hour on them, perfecting them to my liking, and giving them a good story. I was proud of them, and ready to move them into Bridgeport. And guess what?

The game crashes.

THAT IS IT. An hour's worth of data... GONE! I really want to pull all my hair out right now. This was even worse than last time! I trained my twin toddlers everything they needed (and I hated it,) and the game crashes, making me have to teach them to use the potty, walk, and talk ALL OVER AGAIN. I gave up on that save file since I hate training toddlers.

And now I'm forced to give up on these twins because I don't feel like spending another hour recreating them, just to most likely have it stuck on never-ending processing again. Ugh! I'm so mad at this game right now!

When training toddlers, or any other sim, I always save as soon as they reach a significant point in their training. That means the game isn't as likely to crash because it isn't holding so much data in memory and if it does crash I don't have to start again from scratch. I use SaveAs and give it a new name just in case something goes wrong and I need to go back to an earlier save.

With CAS I save before going into it as I know it is a memory hog and it is likely to crash when coming out of it if I don't save first. Then when I've got them out of CAS I save again.

So - what I'm saying is save often...

SimplyJen · July 2016

All I can say is save often. Anyone who plays this game enough knows to save often. Not only that but use "Save as" giving your save file backups in case it ever corrupts.

@CravenLestat The game can still crash on anyone no matter their system or what their running in the background. Last month I had it crash on me only 5 minutes in granted that's rare for me but it can still happen. Normally I get a crash after 5-6 hours from the game hitting max ram depending on how much extra content I'm using. This game is awesome and I love it but I'll be the first to admit that it's not perfect even on a beastly PC.

TadOlson · July 2016

I had a few old saves that gave error codes on saving after families in those games got visits from the social workers to take children away and I also lost one save after the social worker took my family's baby away.I've had the game crash a lot when my computer's fan was dying.

CravenLestat · July 2016

All I am going to end with is this...am really sick of the foolishness.. @Simasaurus09 I understand that

and hello ,my issue lies with something deeper meaning someone who has zero interest in this game or those who play and enjoy it, and is constantly bashing this game here and on the "Other" forum basically likes nothing about this game at all.

I mentioned no names so am not breaking any rules.

Pary · July 2016

If you were ready to move them into Bridegeport, then it sounds like you completed your creation in CAS, therefore they should have been in the family bin and you shouldn't have lost anything.
At the rate you complain about TS3, and claim you despise it, I don't even understand why you're trying to play it.
Perhaps you should stick with TS4. It's much simpler.

Okblondee7 · July 2016

Well, I was going to throw in my 2 cents worth, but after reading the last couple of posts; I don't think I have to.

ENolan · July 2016

Pary wrote: »

If you were ready to move them into Bridegeport, then it sounds like you completed your creation in CAS, therefore they should have been in the family bin and you shouldn't have lost anything.
At the rate you complain about TS3, and claim you despise it, I don't even understand why you're trying to play it.
Perhaps you should stick with TS4. It's much simpler.

I was just thinking along the same lines. I remember one of the OP's activity posts were distressing the horrible ratio of TS3 (not so much TS2) praise/approval threads to TS4 argument/disapproval threads. I'm wondering if this is one of many attempts to balance it out.

Also noticing the toddler topic brought up. From the original sound of the thread, it sounded like the OP made young adult twins, but now it's toddler twins. No mention of the parent(s) in the story right now. I'm seeing various repeat TS4 points brought up here so I'm questioning the validity of this now.

wolfkomoki1 · July 2016

06Bon06 wrote: »

My game never crashes even after playing several hours...

king_of_simcity7 · July 2016

I am sorry that you had this experience

As a rule if I make Sims, I always 'save them' in CAS so if the game ever crashes, I can find them again and remake them

BlackSand · July 2016

SimFan298 wrote: »

So I wanted to make two Sims who are twins. I spent an hour on them, perfecting them to my liking, and giving them a good story. I was proud of them, and ready to move them into Bridgeport. And guess what?

The game crashes.

THAT IS IT. An hour's worth of data... GONE! I really want to pull all my hair out right now. This was even worse than last time! I trained my twin toddlers everything they needed (and I hated it,) and the game crashes, making me have to teach them to use the potty, walk, and talk ALL OVER AGAIN. I gave up on that save file since I hate training toddlers.

And now I'm forced to give up on these twins because I don't feel like spending another hour recreating them, just to most likely have it stuck on never-ending processing again. Ugh! I'm so mad at this game right now!

It is pretty clear that Sims 3 gives you a level of frustration that severely tests your limits.
I am almost certain that it would probably better serve your limited abilities to handle proper game function to find an alternative.

Rumor has it that EA produced a more current version of the Sims series ... I think they call it Sims 4.
If I am not mistaken there is a whole section of the forums here dedicated to the promotion of that game.

I have to admit ... Sims 3 is just a little too challenging for some folks.

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HappySimmer3 · July 2016

Pary wrote: »

If you were ready to move them into Bridegeport, then it sounds like you completed your creation in CAS, therefore they should have been in the family bin and you shouldn't have lost anything.
At the rate you complain about TS3, and claim you despise it, I don't even understand why you're trying to play it.
Perhaps you should stick with TS4. It's much simpler.

That's what I was going to say; even if the game crashed any sims you completed in CAS would be in the library.

While it's true that there are people who complain about TS4 in that forum, to me it's understandable because that's the newest game and it disappointed a lot of people. But since the OPs favors it over TS3 it's hard to understand why they keep attempting to play TS3. UNLESS TS4 isn't s great as they try to make it out to be because the OP is BORED out of their SKULL with TS4 so they try to play TS3, which is more fun if it runs on your PC.

Sorry it's not running well on your PC, OP. I guess you're stuck with TS4.

MadIris · July 2016

It's imperative to save after.... every.single.change. Then if it crashes, doesn't matter.

SimFan298 · July 2016

Okay, everything is better now. I recreated my twin Sims, and moved them into Bridgeport. Everything's fine, and I'm calm now. Better change the title of this.

JoAnne65 · July 2016

That title (when you guilelessly scroll the front page)

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inmyeye · July 2016

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