Hi all,
I've recently been experiencing more crashes than usual. Usually crashes only happened on especially busy community lots, never on my home lot. Today My game started to crash on a relatively sparsely furnished lot in a fresh neighborhood.
I've since cleaned up my files and attempted reapplying my 4gb patch, but I'm not sure if it's helped any. I'm also not sure if I have gotten the patch to apply. I followed the fix tricks from Jessa's video, but idk.
For reference, I have all expansion packs and all stuff packs (excluding M&G) installed from their individual disk copies.
If anyone has any tricks that have decreased the amt of crashing please let me know.
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The game rates the video card low since the video card isn't in Maxis old list (TS2) of cards. If it can't put a name and code number on it then they are all rated low. That has a lot to do with crashing in TS2 on newer, better machines. The graphic rule maker can do an ok job with making the game rate the card to med or high etc. but it also doesn't contain a lot of the newer cards and the right configuration. (A list of cards that are newer and set correctly in it's own code). I would suggest you reread their site's explanations and instructions to make sure the Config file has the correct answers to particular questions such as true and or false etc. to see if you missed something setting the card correctly, first. Can't link leefish site.
thanks for your help!
I don't think the stuff packs could be the problem, since I haven't installed any lots or uninstalled any packs recently.
I redid my graphics rules maker and fixed a mod that had uninstalled properly. The crashing isn't 100% gone but it's not constant like it was at the time of posting.
When I made this post, my game was crashing almost every 10-ish minutes. Now I can play for a while, but I'm not sure how long a "too long" session would be. I never play for more than 12 hours in a session, and I'd say my average is about 4 hours (ofc assuming no crashes).
community lots are still particularly risky, no matter how long my game session has been going on. I got around this by making some tiny, bare-bones clothing shops and grocery stores, but I miss being able to take full advantage of the larger lots I've built.
I noticed the crashing when I downloaded ACR, but when I restarted my game with no CC or mods (basically a fresh install), and played a bit, the crashing was still happening. Admittedly, I don't think I left my home lot enough to check before I actually came to notice the crashes the first time. I reinstalled my mods one by one, and nothing changed for better or worse.
Or start a new EA folder (drag your current one to the desktop) set your graphics rule config file etc. then add in one mod at a time to see which one is causing a crash. Or if it's actually the vanilla game.
ETA: I recently had crashing because I did install a mod that changes some of the attraction options in the game. Like glasses are changed to something else etc. But I knew that was the last thing I installed and though it shouldn't be a conflict with some of the mods I have, it does cause crashing sometimes. Don't know why, it shouldn't but that is the last thing I installed before getting any crashing all these years. So, I have to figure it is not compatible for some reason. Some of your mods may also be like that.