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    Any problems after recent Windows 10 update?

    Hawkflight1066Hawkflight1066 Posts: 245 Member
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    Just wondering if anyone has experienced any issues with Sims 3 after the recent big Windows 10 update. Only a few minutes after I began playing this evening my game suddenly crashed with an Access violation code, which is highly unusual so soon in a playing session. At that time the Windows notification thingy was trying to tell me I had some out of focus or fuzzy software and did I want it fixed?
    I cleared cache, did all sorts of Sim maintenance, reset the world with NRAAS mods and was then too tired to play much longer. Has anyone had any issues with the update?

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      igazorigazor Posts: 19,330 Member
      Not running Win 10 on my end, but...what in the world is "out of focus or fuzzy software"?! Is that really what the notification said?
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      SemaviLadySemaviLady Posts: 526 Member
      @Hawkflight1066 - I haven't had an issue with TS3 regarding Windows 10. But all those (useless to me) embellishments Win10 keeps adding, recently did cause my browser to have problems playing youtube vids immediately after I updated this week. Apparently the Intel driver for low graphics (on mine HD Grapics 630) was the source of that. I just had to remove the current Intel driver from the device manager, and reboot then it was fixed. It was some error like "application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware"

      And YES! Those uselessly, vague pop ups about "focus" started happening. As well, those notification windows I had disabled, were on again. I suspect that on some systems, some graphics cards possibly don't handle transition from one resolution in full screen game (for example) and desktop applications. My system didn't have that problem, so I just disabled the message. The messages themselves were causing "loss of focus" -- good grief.

      I did find this page that talks about turning off blabbative focus notifications
      https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-focus-assist-reduce-distractions-windows-10-april-2018-update


      I'm really not sure what crashed your game. If troubleshooting, I sometimes use "who crashed" tool at MTS
      http://www.modthesims.info/d/416883...

      On my machine, if it's due to Windows 10 misbehavior, I'd still have to troubleshoot via the symptoms and any error report. My last gaming desktop died a few months ago, so I was briefly in that frustrating underworld of different failures as symptoms grew.

      More troubleshooting ideas: Win+S then type problem and you'll get an option to open "view all problem reports", click that and look at the reports.
      For more shortcuts in finding solutions, I found this page very helpful. I made a folder on desktop called Troubleshoot, and put the two shortcuts into the folder: https://winaero.com/blog/quickly-check-for-available-solutions-to-problem-reports-in-windows-10/
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