I wasn't having many technical problems until I installed Pets but now it crashes within 10 minutes of loading.
I only have Ambitions and Pets loaded.
I have 8 GB of ram so that should be enough, so I'm wondering what might be happening here.
Thanks.
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If you could, please run a full dxdiag report, send it up to Pastebin (the free version is fine), and provide a link here so we can read it. Even if your system's specs are all strong enough, the report might point out other things that can be addressed to help the pack run better.
https://help.ea.com/en-us/help/pc/how-to-gather-dxdiag-information
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I'm sorry to hear that Popstarsley. I've learned since my first post that playing with Appaloosa Plains is causing my computer problems. I still have Pets loaded, but I'm playing in a smaller town and I'm having less problems now. It's still a bit laggy, but it's not crashing anymore.
Thanks Igazor, I'll try that and see what I get.
The heavier EPs, and again Pets is the heaviest of all of them, practically demand a dedicated graphics card of sufficient strength to function well. Among other things, the rendering of animal fur, even if you don't have any animals around that are particularly fluffy, is likely going to be too much for integrated graphics to handle. You might try turning all of your graphics settings in Game Options down to the absolute minimum and switch off Advanced Rendering to see how the game behaves (it will look awful most likely, but the point would be to see if it runs without crashing every few minutes) and then maybe if successful increase a setting or two a little at a time until the game looks fun enough to play again.
To relieve stress on the game, play in offline mode (meaning don't login at the Launcher or in-game levels), switch off the in-game TS3 Store shopping experience, the interactive hidden object startup game, and scrapbook memories.
And you might try pulling out your entire TS3 user game folder from Documents and set it aside for safekeeping. The game will spawn a new game folder for you with no added content or saves in it, but those will still be safe back in the pulled out folder. Then see how a new test game with no added content runs in a known to be gentle to play world like Sunset Valley, Twinbrook, or Riverview -- not Appaloosa but only because I would expect it to have or draw in too many animals from the very beginning.
Hope some of this helps, but there may not actually be any magical types of solutions on integrated graphics.
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Thanks again for your help.
System Information
Time of this report: 9/11/2020, 19:06:10
Machine name: CRUD
Machine Id: {0CBAE796-68AE-4766-9AE4-C291B5E3F974}
Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (10.0, Build 18363) (18362.19h1_release.190318-1202)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Compaq 8200 Elite USDT PC
BIOS: Default System BIOS (type: BIOS)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400S CPU @ 2.50GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.5GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 8080MB RAM
Page File: 6627MB used, 2732MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 12
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
Miracast: Not Available
Microsoft Graphics Hybrid: Not Supported
DirectX Database Version: Unknown
DxDiag Version: 10.00.18362.0387 64bit Unicode
DxDiag Notes
Display Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 1: No problems found.
Sound Tab 2: No problems found.
Input Tab: No problems found.
But if you are happy with the game's performance in other worlds and with things scaled back, then maybe we don't really need to go any further right away.
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