Showing posts with label Crashing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crashing. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

CRASH! ... cont'd

I've been dying to get under way with my new family, the Harts, but my game has had other plans.

Originally I settled the Harts in a big mansion in Los Aniegos. I'd opted for pre-built house in one of my favourite worlds to reduce the time it would take me to set-up before playing, but sadly my game was riddled with lagging and crashing every time I tried to play.

I tried everything, from DEP to clean re-install... Nothing seemed to fix the problem. Now I'm pretty sure it was an issue with the house, because I'd experience the same problems in that house with different families. But on the flip-side, I could play any other house in the same world and not have the lagging and crashing problems. So I've chalked this up to another case of the little EA gremlins having fun times at my expense.

I've decided to try again in another favourite world - St Claire. I'm hastily knocking up a mansion based on photos I found online, and hope to have it finished and furnished today or tomorrow so I can settle in and get to know the Harts all weekend.

Monday, 12 November 2012

CRASH!

Argh. The curse of every Sims player... My game keeps crashing! :(

I can use Build/Buy mode and CAS seemingly perfectly for hours and hours on end, but as soon as I get in to Live Mode, the game becomes unresponsive. First everything freezes, except for animations (like spinning PlumbBobs and sleeping Z's); though eventually they stop as well. Soon after that I get the dreaded message box that my game has closed unexpectedly :'(

Hopefully I can figure out a fix before Seasons is released (four more days!)

As I've only been able to build/buy, I've been very particular about making the Hart's home perfect. You can see the progress in this thread over at LivingSims. There's so many great people on the forum, and I'm getting great pointers on how to improve :)