Not sure why I'm suddenly having this issue.The game is crashing, so I ran the crash analyzer and it said max memory.I never had this issue before and haven't installed anything new on this pc.The only game on here is the Sims 3 and the expansions.My other games are on my external hard drive.I also haven't installed anything new to my game.And I ran the update checker on my drives they said I have the latest...
Dxdiag:
https://pastebin.com/GG6CiRc8
And when I go into my task manager while the game is running, 89% of it is used, but everything looks like it needs to stay running.
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One reason you could be seeing crashes for the first time is if you're playing in a more complicated world than before. Large worlds, whether physically enormous or just overpopulated, will demand more RAM than smaller ones, and long-running games need more memory to run than new ones. And of course an unedited IP is unplayable, but then so are some custom worlds.
I don't know whether you play with NRaas mods, but does a MC reset help at all? Do you have ErrorTrap and Overwatch?
Its the same world I've been playing for 3-4 months no.Sims 3 is using 9.9% of the ram at 2,938.9 mb
I gave up on IP that world is just not playable at all LOL
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I know Win 10 can be a RAM hog, but not typically by THAT much!
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This is what I'm seeing, maybe I'm not reading it right.
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Your system is not using 89% of its RAM here, it's using 31%. That will increase as your game session moves forward, but not astronomically. Again it can't because of the 32-bit memory restrictions. Does it stay stable in that way as you play the game now?
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As you have dual graphics, I would also suggest making sure the game is still using your Nvidia card and not the Intel. And both of them need their graphics drivers updated, from the manufacturer's site (Acer) if possible would be best.
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The game is still using the nvidia.I just double checked.I will go into the game and run it for a bit.
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Dxdiag: https://pastebin.com/m3VYveLC
Edit: The game is running on the Nvidia card with my frame rate capped.
V-sync forced on.Turned down my graphics settings.Still happening.
Is what it is currently.But it Fluctuates.It will go from this then randomly spike to 50% then back down to 25%
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But TS3 itself can't use anywhere near half of the 16 GB RAM you have, so there must be some other app taking up that space. Are you running Chrome while you play, and do you have a few tabs open that might be loading videos or ads? When RAM use does hit 50%, what does the Task Manager report as using all that memory?
I'm not sure it matters, anyway, since the question is why TS3 is crashing. Regardless of what else you have running in the background, the game itself needs to be kept under 3.5 GB RAM at all times, or a temporary spike in memory use could cause a crash. If it's nowhere near 3.5 GB at the point of the crashes, then that's a whole different issue.
I'm thinking it may be the world, it's a very landscaped large world.However, its no way near as big as Praaven, which I play in often without crashes.When I took the pic of the task manager, the only thing running was Sims 3 and basic computer required programs.Nope, I wasn't in edit town or cas.I was about to have my sim cook dinner, the game froze and then crashed.Ran the crash analyzer and it said Max Memory used.Then I went to save and got error 12 and crashed.
I'm leaning toward it being the world, though I'm not sure why this world would run worse than Praaven, which is twice as big with multiple areas.
When I play, I do have chrome running, but the only tab open is to the sims forums, so I can upload screenshots.
Most of my games on this laptop are on an external hard drive.The only game actually installed here is Sims 3.
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If you want to find out whether this world is playable at all, you could start a new save and let it run for a couple of days, keeping a close eye on the TM. If you see random spikes or high RAM use overall, then the world itself is probably the issue.
That's the odd thing, with Praaven, I get so many darn stuck sims, yet the world runs fine.(and it has a large population) But with Great Bear it just seems to hate to run.
This is is actually a new save.I've only had it for a few days.
I have overwatch running, I don't seem to get many notifications about stuck sims.
Still, I will try a second new save and see how that goes.
But the routing issues always confuse me as I go to see what could be the issue and don't see anything wrong.I get
routing issues in any world I play.
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For routing issues specifically, it might help to turn off Overwatch's automatic resets. That way, when you get the notification for a stuck sim, they won't have already been reset to their house. On City Hall, NRaas > Overwatch > Settings > Stuck Check Auto-Reset: False.
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If your game has been working ok and now crashes, have you recently installed new CC? I recently installed some cc that really messed up my game and caused it to crash after a minute. Luckily I could pin point it quickly and remove it as i'd only installed 3 objects
Thank you for this! i'd like to know what is causing my sims to get stuck and fix it.
I already had all of that disabled.And no I have not installed anything new.
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Edit: My graphics card updated tonight, now I'm getting extremely low frame rate. 20-21.It was at at 50-60 before.
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P.S. With the recent release of Battlefield V, Nvidia is currently rolling out driver updates as quickly as it can manage. You might want to temporarily pass on updating until things settle down, or you'll keep needing to redo your settings each time.
I managed to roll back to my older one and will hold off on that.Thanks for the tidbit.
I know think my memory is not the game, but something with my laptop.As I was using chrome, chrome crashed and said not enough memory...
I had checked my FPS and nvidia profile they were all set up right.I think it was the update..I rolled back and my FPS is okay again.
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