I have been having CAS issues which have become a lot worse since seasons. To the point of it being quite difficult to change my sims clothes. I was wondering if others having CAS issues were having the same issues as me. Most of my issues happen when I go in to plan an outfit. I have included some screenshots to show a few things that happen. Then it usually freezes or crashes to desktop sometimes it says exception raised.
I have a 15 inch Mac Book Pro 2012
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
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EA really needs to fix this. I have heard that most of these problems are experienced by Mac users.
Thanks for the reply. I know it is an indication that it is going to freeze or crash. I just wanted to know if other people were getting the same problems. If they are then I know it is not just something wrong with my game. I don't use CC so what clothes are you suggesting I get rid of?
Thanks for the reply. It doesn't freeze or crash every time for me but almost every time.
Hopefully EA comes out with another game update to fix these glitches, I don't find the grey sim bothersome because it only lasts a few seconds, but your issues look really frustrating and I understand your frustration
I get the black sims too, sometimes in crazy colors instead. And the same issues with the boxes; black or strange color mixes. It also happens with hairs.
Even if I try to be really patient, to let it completely load before i scroll down, it still happens. - And then the Crash or freeze.
Same happens with my icons in build/bye, and then it crash or freeze.
I even tried to remove all my store items to see if it was connected to them, but it still happened. Im out of ideas to fix it, and think its up to EA to make a patch as the game is unplayable is you like to build or create sims.
...If only they would.
After Generation EA became so careless with their games interms of stablity because there weren't too many problems with the game before Pets. At least not at this scale.
The only thing I download is patterns, but the above happens to me before I can even finish picking out clothes let alone change the color/pattern.
(That is, if I can even keep the game running long enough to do so )
Sometimes I'm successful, but it seems to me that the problem is with outerwear - I'll create my entire sim in CAS but then as soon as I hit the outerwear tab my game goes all wonky with weird blurry squares and then crashes.
Side note - does anyone know if they are making/working on a patch for all the seasons issues?
http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/617138.page
Anyway, the black thumbnails are rampant in my game right now and its all store stuff. After being in CAS for a bit, the thumbnails for the game items get distorted and soon after my game crashes. My current family needs to change into winter wear, but can't get out of their summer clothes because of the crashing issues!!
I am having issues in buy/build mode, too, mostly on lots with sims, but the game crashes whenever I start using buy/build. The thumbnail issue is happening there, too.
I only load store items to my game to keep it "clean" from all the issues associated with 3rd party cc, but that plan isn't working out very well. I refuse to remove my store items and not use them since I PAID FOR THEM!!! :evil:
I've had so many problems with TS3 that I don't even know why I continue to buy the EPs. Five crashes this afternoon alone!! Glutton for punishment, I guess.
Corey785 I totally uninstalled and reinstalled only days after getting seasons. The only things I put back was a some saved games and store content. I am glad it helped you though.
I did. But it didn't help the first and second time. The third time I was just really careful with going to CAS, only when it was really needed and I tried to stay there for a really short time. That helped but maybe the fact that I quit after a while, deleted al my caches and thumbnails and the DC backup again and then restarted my game helped a lot too.
It's not great at all, but it is usable and since i've followed some of the advice in threads about making seasons work it is more stable at the moment.
Your welcome. :-) Try deleting your sims 3 preference folder, (doesn't harm your game) or switching into windowed mode. To do that, load the game and press Command-return at the same time. That worked for me. Also try lowering your graphics settings. Seasons is a very strong in graphics and it might be too strong for your computer to handle on it's current settings.
As for the black thumbnails in build/buy, I think I've fixed that in my game *knocks on wood*. What I did was delete the package files in my Thumbnails folder (Documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 3/Thumbnails just the files inside, not the folder itself!). Then I started a brand new save game, chose a single pre-made sim who lived in a small house, opened up build/buy, and slowly let every thumbnail in each category load. They all loaded up fine and so far I haven't seen the black thumbnails again. Don't know if this will work longterm, or if it's just a temporary fix. But so far, so good for me.
My graphic settings are low even through my 2012 Mac should be able to handle higher.
I think I've found a way of fixing the issues with store content, basically I found out that my mac couldn't take it when I added loads of items at once so now adding like 50 items/ sets, then going into the game and CAS and then entering the categories and waiting for the Thumbnails to load then saving as this stores the item and exiting and repeating this process again, Its extremely time consuming but I think its worth it.
Hope this helps everyone out who's been suffering with these issues.
Are refections turned all the way off? Your graphics in the screenshots looked pretty detailed to me.
CAS create a sim worked fine but when I went into plan an outfit after a bit it froze. The graphics were on the default setting. I turned down the graphics and it has been ok so far in plan an outfit.
Although overall the game is running with a bit of a lag. It was summer in the game and I had the internet turned off. I also turned off all demographics, memories, in game store. I have all SP's and Ep's on disk.
Screen shot of the freeze. The graphic were on the default setting when this was taken.
Edited error report from when it crashed.
EA_PLATFORM: Windows on X86
OS name: Windows XP
OS version number: 5.1.2600
OS service pack: Service Pack 2
Debugger present: no
CPU count: 8
Processor type: x86
Processor level: 5
Processor revision: 14857
Memory load: 52%
Total physical memory: 8185 Mb
Available physical memory: 3896 Mb
Total page file memory: 8313 Mb
Available page file memory: 4012 Mb
Total virtual memory: 2047 Mb
Free virtual memory: 0 Mb
My stats again are
15 inch Mac Book Pro 2012 OS 10.8.2
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
I am going to slowly add back store content and keep trying out CAS to see how much can have before I have major problems again.