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Gamingnewslink.com – Solutions and Fixes for Sims 3 errors, crashes, and installation problems
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If you encouter Sims 3 related problems that are not included in the list below, please post them in the comments box at the bottom of this page. Posting solutions (working or speculated ones) for Sims 3 on the comment box would be more than welcome. List will be updated as new problems and solutions become known.
Before moving on make sure that you computer/laptop meets the minimum system requirements to play sims 3. You can compare your system specs with Sims 3’s requirements here : http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/876.page
Problem #1 : Sims 3 Error message “Device 0 cannot run this title There is no video graphic card supported check your system hardware”
Solution A : If you are attempting running Sims 3 with a secondary monitor attached, The game wont work and you will get this error. Try to disable the second monitor via display properties or unplug it prior to running Sims 3
Solution B : Make sure that you have met the minimum requirements for Sims 3. If your system specs exceeds that of Sims 3’s minimum system requirements, post your system specs at the comment box at the bottom of this page.
Solution C : If you trying out Sims 3 on a laptop, make sure that the laptop has a dedicated video card installed. Intel GME has known issues with Sims 3.
Solution D : Try solution to problem #4
Problem #2: Sims 3 crashes in Buy / Build mode
Solution A: Disable and/or uninstall your anti-virus. Avg and Norton are notoriously known to conflict with Sims 3.
Solution B: If Solution A doesn’t work. Your best bet is to try the solution to problem #4. If you are experiencing this error, post your system specs at the comment box below and some details on how often you get this error
Workaround : Play the game in window mode. If Sims 3 still crashes or freezes on build/buy mode, post about it in the comment box below along with your system specs.
Credits : 3munch_bunch of sims 3 forums
Problem #3 : Sims 3 data error CRC error (cyclic redundancy check error)
Solution A: Run the Windows Defragmenter software on your system
Solution B: It appears that in some cases, users that are using the EA download Manager version of The Sims 3 may experience this error if their download is paused. To resolve this issue, perform the following steps:
*Log in to the EADM.
*Click on the red x in the upper right part of the Sims 3 download to clear the EADM cache.
*Re-download The Sims 3; do not pause the download.
Solution C: Try solution for Problem #6 listed above
Credits : Solutions as posted by SimGuru_BGY_11 of Sims 3 forums
Problem #4 : Sims 3 randomly crashes
Solution A : Sims 3 has issues with old video card drivers. Make sure that your video card drivers are up to date. Here’s a list of video card manufacturers along with the link to their driver update page. Make sure that you select the correct driver approprirate for your video card’s model
- ATI Technologies Inc.
http://www.atitech.com/support/driver.html - Intel
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp - Matrox
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm - Nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp - S3 Graphics
http://www.s3graphics.com/drivers.jsp - SiS
http://download.sis.com/
Solution B: Disable and/or uninstall your anti-virus. Avg and Norton are notoriously known to conflict with Sims 3.
Workaround : Run Sims 3 in window mode and see if you still get this errors. If you do, then make sure that you’ve updated your video card drivers.
Credits : AveryJane of Sims 3 forums
Problem #5: Sims 3 freezing in game, during build/buy mode or immediately after creating your sim.
Solution : Try the solutions listed for Problem #4
Problem #6 : Sims 3 displays this error “Disk Authentication Failure” after pressing the Play button
Solution : Sims 3 has problems running on Toshiba laptops and computers with MATSHTA DVD-RAM UJ-841S DVD drives mainly because it interferes with the DRM installed in Sims 3. Follow the instructions listed below
• Click on the ‘Start’ menu on the Windows Taskbar.
• Click on ‘My Computer.’
• Right-click on the DVD drive letter you are using to run your game.
• Select ‘Properties’ from the list of options.
• You should see a ‘DLA’ tab in the Properties panel, where you can disable the DLA software on your machine.
Credits : Chad of Toshiba-Europe forums
Problem #6 : Sims 3 displays this error “A system error has occurred”
Solution : This is a generic error, post your system specs at the comment box below as this error can be caused by a lot of things
Problem #7 : Sims 3 black screen problem
Solution A: No known fix. Your best bet is to try the solution to problem #4. If you are experiencing this error, post your system specs at the comment box below and some details on how often you get this error
Solution B: Black screen errors are usually attributed to overheating video cards. Make sure your video card is properly cooled if this is the case.
Problem #8 : Sims 3 screen tearing / lines across screen when moving the camera or zooming in and out
Solution : Enable v-sync. This will cause the game to slow down for some systems though
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How do you run Sims 3 in windowed mode?
Options > Enable fullscreen (disable this)
Is it just me or is there NO PROBLEM number 4 and a lot fo the comments refer to it.
Jeremy
I can’t even save my game anymore. Half the time it will just crash, and half the time it will just get stuck at saving (the little animation circle thing will keep going but won’t ever finish and I have to end the process).
By the way, my specs are:
1.5 TB WD SATA HD
Intel e6750 2.66 Dual Core
Radeon 1 GB 3870×2
6 GB GSkill DDR2 RAM
@ Jeremy : edited, thanks
what is a DLA?
and if i am using windows xp
how do i know which box to unable in properties?
i can install the sims 3 fine onm my computer but when it come to loading it up i get an error message ’send or dont send’ it sez theres a problem with the sims 3 launcher i also get blue screenin and black screens and the error message ‘A system error has occurred’ does anyone know y this could b happenin i really wnt t play the sims 3
Ever since I installed Sims3, i get this Application Error message popping up repeatedly: Exception EFOpenError in module avi.WUSB54EC.dll at 0000DB5F.
Any suggestions?
hi there i need some help…my sims 3 just crash suddenly without any warming…i disable my AVG and i tried the step provided here but it didnt work…my spec are:
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8600 @2.40 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce G 105M 512MB
4GB RAM
Running in window mode fixed both my problems. I assume getting the retail will also fix those problems.
how do u go into windows mode with xp home
Hi there!
I’m having the same problem as jay…
I tried all the solutions and nothing.
Even at the window mode, it doesnt work…
Black screen problem that occurs all of the time. And i also have the problem when it crashes in buy mode. so annoying
My Specs:
Microsoft Windows XP
Media Center Edition
Version 2002
Service Pack 3
HP Pavilion
Intel (R)
Pentium (R) D CPU 3.00GHz
1.00 GB of RAM
Same problem as Will emma and Jay, Randomly crashes to black at any given time, though music keeps playing.
Window mode, disabling AVG, and generally closing other programs does not help.
SPECS:
HP Pavilion
w/ Vista service pack 1
Core 2 DUO 1.7k
3 gig Ram
128meg Nvidia gforce go 7400
Avaiable language of this game???
Having a bad case of problems #2+#4
System Info: XP Home SP3, Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB, nForce 570 SLI with Core 2 Duo @ 2.4 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, 900W PSU
I’ve updated to both the latest stable Nvidia driver and then later the recent beta driver when that didn’t work. Neither helped a bit. Updated to the latest distribution of DirectX with no effect. Updated nForce motherboard driver and sound card driver with no effect. Turning sound acceleration down in dxdiag didn’t do **** either. Turning the fan on my GFX card up to 90% and logging temperature while running Sims 3 didn’t show unusually high temperatures (and nothing in there is overclocked) yet it still crashed. Event viewer reports nothing out of the ordinary each time this has happened. Not running SLI cards and nothing else I run crashes. =/
I’m about to try disabling Avast, but I’m reluctant to run in window mode until that fails also. My system far exceeds the system requirement and I don’t want to have to settle for lesser graphics just because EA’s programmers couldn’t kill blatant bugs in their software…
I have a disc authentication error but do not have a DLA in my properties panel. I do not have a tohiba laptop or a matsha disck drive. I have a pioneer dic drive. I can run my game on t3 exe but when it loads to the game menu it says there is no disc and to insert it. I have practically given up. I have rang ea suport hotline and they said it is a common eror. I apparently have to download a free game from the internet and have to be conected to the net whenever I play my game. I will be screwed if I decide to not have the net because i wont be able to play it at all.
I had the sims 3 installed but it was slow while playing it. I then had some more memory put into the computer, but everytime I went to on the sims it either crashed as soon as it started up or after 10 minutes of playing.
I then took the disc back as it might have been faulty and got another. I then went to install this on the same computer, during installation a box popped up saying that I do not have enough disc space.
How is this possible when I had it installed on the exact same computer as before?
I am having #6 problems.
Haven’t once managed to load game. Goes straight to BSOD.
Stop message:
0X0000008E (0XC000005, 0XAABEA217, 0XA732E77C, 0X00000000)
tcpip.sys address AABEA217 base at AABA0000
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
CPU Speed 2.07 GHz Performance Rated at 6.60 GHz
System RAM 2.0 GB
Operating System Windows XP Home Edition (Build Service Pack 32600)
Video Card ATI Radeon HD3450 Graphics Processor (0×95C5)
Video RAM 500.7 MB
Video Card 3D Yes
HW Transform/Lighting Yes
Vertex Shader version 3.0
Pixel Shader version 3.0
DirectX Version 9.0c
Sound Card ATI HDMI Audio
Sound Card Driver 5.10.0.5857
Free Disk Space 9.0 GB
I’ve installed sims 3 fine without any problems, however, when I go to game launch and click the play button to run the game, the screen goes black and then returns to desktop as if the game was never loaded.
My computer meets all the required specs.
New Dell Studio 15 Notebook
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor P8600 @2.40 GHz
512MB graphics.
4GB RAM
I have found alot of forums with similar problems, however no help on how to fix it. Cannot run in windows mode, or change options as the game never offically starts.
Please Help ASAP! Want to play desparately!
Cara
I installed the Sims 3 onto a perfectly good PC. Although I don’t have the specs handy, they more than match the ones required for the Sims 3, and it did play fine twice for several hours. Now, when I try to start up, it loads in a black screen, reaches about 7.0 of loading and then returns to the desktop.
Help!
hi i have the same problem my game loads in you then go into create a sim and it starts freezing up and crashes my pc,i have been on ea games website and took the test to see if my pc would run the sims3 and it passed i am running vista have updated all my drivers so thats not the problem anyone any idea of what to do next .
The speed in my sims 3 is not fast enough. When I switch from speed 1 to 3 it doesn’t change at all. It takes a long time for me to sleep or go to work, because the speed isn’t faster. I have tried to change the grafic, but it still doesn’t work.
If someone know, what to do about it, please send me an E-mail:
Sara.iversen93@gmail.com
Please, thank you!
I have the Disk Authentication Failure” after pressing the Play button on a ASUS laptop and I tryed your soloution and it didnt work because there wasnt a DLA tab on my properties window/box, can you please help me?
Thankyou
it says that the sims 3 launcher has encountered a problem but i can’t figure out what the problem is
please help!
buy the game
my computer system specs:core 2 duo 2,4ghz,ram 2gb, graphic card ATI radeon HD3450 512MB.every time i started the game ,it reported:”unable to start game.device 0 cannot run this title….”please help
i have a mac laptop and when i press play i have the disk authentication problem. what do i do?
I found a problem and solution incase anyone else runs into this.
Problem:
Computer Crashes/Battery Dies/etc while your game is saving. The next time you try to load The Sims 3 the game crashes on the initial load screen before it starts to say all the silly things like “Unloading Loading Screens”.
Solution: First go to your documents folder.
*Mac: Go to your home folder(Shift + Apple + H). Browse to Documents
*Windows: Go to your “My Documents” folder.
Then browse to Eletronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves/ and delete the save of whatever game you were in when the crash occurred. DO NOT DELETE the backup file. Then rename the Backup file by deleting the “.backup” portion of the filename. All should work now but you will lose everything up to your last save point.
Hello, I’m experiencing the “Sims 3 displays this error ‘Disk Authentication Failure’ after pressing the Play button” thing, but I don’t have a Toshiba, I have an HP. Any help would be really appreciated.
I’m having the black screen problem too, I’m glad I didn’t pay for this game, ugh!
I had a blue screen of death crash with my hp computer (mainly problem #6) while playing The Sims 3. It’s code number was stop: 0×00000124 (0×00000000, 0xB2000010, 0×00010C0F). I could play anywhere from five minutes to four hours and my computer would crash randomly. I have a nvidia 6150se nForce graphics card, which I have been keeping up to date. After contacting my computer manufacturer and EA, I finally decided to e-mail Microsoft. I’m still testing my game, but it seems like what I did helped stop the crashes; however, it does lag or slow down at times. First, I disconnect from the internet completely. Then, I disable my internet security (Norton), end all unnecessary background tasks in Task Manager, and disabled many startup programs in msconfig (I’m running this on Vista). After that, I tested my RAM and video card, which all came up clean. One thing that really helped me was to close the game down periodically and come back to it a few seconds later. By watching Task Manager while doing this, I realized that closing down The Sims 3 reallocated about 75% of my memory (It was at 80% in the game and 20% after exiting). Another thing is that it didn’t make a difference if I was in full screen or windowed mode. One other thing I did was type in sysdm.cpl in my search bar in the start menu, went to advanced in that menu, and click settings, where I changed one of the options in the system failure section that said kernel memory dump to small memory dump. I got that info from Microsoft. Like I said, I’m still testing, so I don’t know if this works or not, but it seems to be doing fine (knock on wood). I’m hoping it can help some of you guys out with the BSOD crashes. It was so frustrating, and I’ve done a lot of research on the problem. I can’t guarantee these steps will work just so you know; I’m not an expert on this. I also suspect this problem is related specifically to the game’s programming, and hopefully, it can fixed by a patch.
Thank you for the truly helpful article.
*Sorry about the really long post.
I’d like to give credit to Microsoft Tech Support for these
these troubleshooting steps.
Hey,
I have a completely new computer with an ASUS graphics card, and my system preferences exceed those of the min by far, for instance I have 2gb of ram, etc. but yet I still get this error message. Any help?
I keep getting error #2, even after i tried all your solution.
my specs are,
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2200 @2,2 GHz
Memory 3326MB RAM
Display NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS
sorry, for my last post, what i meant is i keep having problem #1.
Hi. NOTHING HAPPENS!! i put the disk in and nothing happens it dosent even get recognised on my dvd drive. Theres no problem with the requirements – my laptop meets them all – and my disk drive works as ive tried other disks, also the cd is fine as it runs on my friends laptop which is the same as my laptop….SO WHY WONT IT WORK ON MINE!!! PLLEEEAAASSSEEEE HELP
The game crashes especially in build mode and while saving. EA did a poor job this time. A lot of hype was created by EA for this game but sorry to say that they haven’t lived up to the mark this time.
I m using Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz, 4GB DDR3 Ram, 320GB HDD, 512 MB GForce 9600M with Boot Camp for WinXP Pro.
All, I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why I kept getting a black screen as list in problem #4 …
Solution my problem
FOllow all the step listed below #4. Now if you have the AIM prompt to upgrade to the lastest version, upgrade. This seems to jacking up the load of SIM3. Works fine with the excepts of over heat crashes.
Hi all,
I had the same strange problems. I bought the game and tried to install it. Everything went right. But then I wanted to play it… and it keeps crashing. Mostly during saving.. which corrupts the save.. I got no error. I tried it on Windows 7, Vista and eventually on Winxp X64. Nothing worked. I updated all my drivers etc. Nothing worked. Then I removed my 2nd graphics card.. so no SLi anymore… It looked like that fixed the problem.. I suddenly can play for hours now… but it still crashes once and a while… but the crashes are different then before. With both graphic cards in my pc it just closes down Sims 3 and let me see the desktop. With one graphic card it just freezes once in a while… very strange.. But it’s better playable… when saving alot…
My conclusion: EA made some errors creating the game.. I hope they will soon notice the problems and create a new patch… this is very crappy!!!! But the game is awesome
Random crashes, have tried disabling anti-virus (running Avast), running in windowed mose with default settings, all my drivers are up to date and I have cleaned my registry.
I’m running Intel core duo 2 gig processor (operating as 4 gig), 2 gig ram, NVidia 8600 video (512mb), realtek HD audio. XP service pack 2.
I tried the no-cd crack option that works for securom conflict crashes and that didn’t work either.
Okay, my game freezes when any Sim, even the butler, goes to clean out the refrigerator. There diamonds still rotate on the head and the music and sound affects, like a washing machine and the norm music will still keep going, but everything is frozen, i have to unplug my computer countless times. I tried getting a new refrigerator, didn’t work. I have the 24′in. Mac, new at the beginning of this yearish, and i have no clue whats going on. Please go to my website to contact me! Please!
Hi.. So I have a problem that I haven’t been able to find a solution for yet, so I am hoping you can help.
I have installed the game on my computer, but I can’t get past the launcher, when I press play this message appear:
Unable to start game
error code 282
What can I do, I am running Vista, and I meet the system requirements, does anyone know what the problem is ?
Hey,
My game just randomly crashes when I try to load a previous family.
I get past the loading screen, but after a few seconds of loading the selected family in the main menu, the game crashes.
Amyone know how to fix this?
My sims 3 was fine. I have played for 2 days and now it won’t let me play. I get a black screen at the exact same part every time, when I’m loading my family. Why is it always the same part? There are no scratches on the disk, my laptop is not overheating, HELP!!
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MY GOD! i just bought sims 3 new from ebay i get home get excited tear it open chuck in the disc drive to hear
click click click as it spins around. but nooo it doesnt load! no installation instructions appear. nothing! it wont reconise it. on sims 2 it works fine! every other disc it works fine. how do i fix it? i also heard people were complaining of the same prb to.
Wow!thank you so much you don’t know how happy I am i found this site!I had Norton and thats why it was crashing!I fixed that and now the sims 3 runs perfectley!The sims 3 is so much fun and people say its a rip off but its not!Thanks again!
I was having the disk error problem for SIMS 3. EA has just (FINALLY) released a patch for Sims 3 to take care of this problem. I have a Toshiba computer and downloaded the patch thru EA’s download manager and it worked perfectly after that.
hiiii, i was able to play the sims3 fine like 3 times but today its not letting me, everytime it gets past the into movie thing and to the loading screen i get a message the”the sims3 has encountered an error” and askes me to send an error report or not. i don’t knwo if its relevebt but i did only just get the update of the sims3 this morning, i don’t know
please helppp
i just bought the sims 3 friday and i installed it.and it plays but its slow..everything on my computer is fine except the cpu..its not a 2.4 ghz processor..soo what should i do??
Hi – I’m at my wits end. Same problem as Sam.
Cannot install the sims 3 at all – even though I’ve triple checked that my system meets the minimum requirements.
Have purchased more memory, have a Nvidia Ge 6200, which I know isn’t brilliant but is on the list of acceptable cards.
Have tried ending all applicaations and processes through task manager, have tried manually installing etc but the disc doesn’t show up and when I go to the DVD-ROM drive in My Computer and click on it, it freezes my whole computer.
Currently in email correspondence with EA tech support, but reeeeeally not helping.
Has anyone come accross this before? Any help that anyone can give will be soooo appreciated. Thank you.
Not sure what info is any help so copied this from my DxDiag file I sent to EA:
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.090206-1234)
System Manufacturer: Compaq-Presario
System Model: RR501AA-ABU SR2129UK
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1024MB RAM (slightly wrong as actually have 3 Gb now I’ve installed more?)
Page File: 716MB used, 1731MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
I have done what its says for problem #6 the first one and it still says “no disc” ugh help
I bought the Sims 3 yesterday. When i got home to play it, I inserted the disc into my Macbook Pro and it spit it right back out 30 seconds later. Today, I went back to BestBuy to exchange the disc, and tried it again. It did the same thing… Why is it doing this and how can i fix it??
Hi! Im having a problem with problem # 7. i dont have the correct specs. my brother manages to fiz it but not for long. and he wont tell me how so i turned to u guys so can u plz help with my incorrect spec problem
Same problem as Jay. Random crashes.. shuts my laptop down as if i turned it of suddenly .. It works fine on an old xp computer that i have with stats way less than what this one has. I also have the nvidia geforce 8800 card I have tried every posted fix i could find
Hey,
Game shuts down in build/buy mode. I have updated All drivers from website and disabled AVG and it still shuts down.
my Specs are
Windows Vista
Processor: AMD Serpron(tm) 3800+ 2.20GHz
RAM: 2.50GB
System Type: 32-bit Operating System
Have i missed anything off?
Hope you can help.
Becky
I had an issue with sims 3 loading to a black screen with only the cursor and sound. A reinstall of XP and SP2 without using the ATI drivers fixed it instantly. Using the XP drivers allowed direct 3d at level 8 and 9 to run and the game started no issue.
I noticed something interesting
my sims games will load and play fine on live mode-even buy/build mode UNLESS I buy or click to many items (specially change the colors of designs) i think my computer can’t keep track of all the reversable date (the arrows that you click as an undo) if a I move an object to 50 different spots it will crash because it can’t sustain those 50 spaces in its undo memory. same with create a sim. If I have more than 20 changes that my computer has to remember it will crash.
I wish there was an option to get rid of the undo I believe it the ource of the crash for most games. Computers can’t remeber so many changes despite meeting minimum requirements
i just installed the sims 3 and everytime i play for a few minutes my entire computer will randomly shut completely off, going from whatever i was doing (creating a sim because that is all i have time to do( usually 3-5 min)) to instantly a black screen and the computer totally shut off, no error message no nothing. when i boot up after the shut off windows tells me it has recovered from an unexpected shutdown and asks what mode i would like to start windows in (normal / safe etc)
my specs:
Sager np5793
running windows 7 ultimate RC 64bit
C2D T9300 2.53GHz
4GB DDR2
GeForce 9800M GTS 512mb
2GB Intel Turbo Memory
How do u disable your virus protection?
off
Error:
Unable to start game
Service initialization failed (0×0175d824)
My sistem:
2,5 GB
windows sp3
DirectX 9
ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO AGP
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Who knows a solution?
I’m having the same problem as the first #6 except I’m not running a toshiba laptop, I don’t have that disc drive, I meet all the system requirements, and I’m not using DLA.
What the fuck EA.
It’s called Beta Testing.
I installed Sims 3 just fine, it loads up properly, but for some reason once when i pick the only town I can play on my computer restarts itself. What can i do to fix this problem?
**Answer for JOE and BECKY below this message**
(Game Crashes)
Cheers for this site! My game started crashing all of a sudden to the point where I couldn’t even create Sims, and I had only had the game for about 2 days. Anyway your driver information worked brilliantly, and though I have not appeared to have any problems with AVG, I may consider disabling it while playing. Apologies for taking up space, just wanted to say thanks a million!
JOE and BECKY – I had the exact same problem as you and I’m sure many others. Try updating your driver. You can check the type of driver your computer has by doing the following:
Right click on MY COMPUTER
Select PROPERTIES
Select the HARDWARE tab
Click DEVICE MANAGER
Expand DISPLAY ADAPTER by clicking on it
Listed here you will see the brand and model of Video Card that you are using
Double click the listing and click the DRIVER tab
Once you figure that out, all you need to do is go to the appropriate company site listed above for your particular driver and download the update. If that doesn’t work (and it probably will), try disabling your virus protection.
The sims 3 worked fine here, till the latest patch. After the intro movie, in the beginning of the loading screen, it just shuts down. I’ve updated all drivers, shutdown AVG, but still it just shuts down. Someone who knows the answer for this problem?
I have played The Sims 3 before and had no problems at all, except for occasional crashes. Thats not a big problem. Recently, when ever I press the play button on the Sims 3 launcher, the game trys to start and then turns into a window of black. Also another window pops up that says, “Unable to start game. Service initialization failed (0×0175d824).”
Please help
thanks
Check out http://shutt16.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/sims-3-driver-display-error/ for a good article on dell display driver failures with the Sims 3 game!
Running it in windowed mode works for me, though the game’s running a little slower than in full screen mode due to all the stuff in the background, but still beats getting the bsod after playing for 20 min.
Problem #1 but weird variation, game runs fine until random crash then if try and play again get Problem #1 and can’t play until I restart the computer. Computer exceeds requirements, have Norton turned off but still get a random crash after say.. an hour? Any help greatly appreciated, Thanks x
PLEASE HELP! this has been aggervating me forever! my sims game crashes to the desktop (it doesn’t ex out completely, i can click back in) but when i click back in the cursor is off..like when i click on options my sim’s head will come up! my game crashes every five minutes and it is SO annoying! email me or reply to me please! dinosaursx@hotmail.com ….
im just getting the black screen for a couple of seconds when i open up game ( no loading or nothing ) then it closes and goes back to my desktop this is ridiculous my pc is a gaming pc my boyfriend plays army destructor games which require way more then sims 3 and work fine for him why am i still getting the black screen of death … help me please … neonblue2323@hotmail.com
I am having a problem i have not yet found anyone mentioning in any of the fourms the problem i am having is sims who are fat/skinny wimpy/muscular are all shown the same except the torso and legs are offset from the rest of the sim creating a seam around the neck waist and ankles and with the extremes it is much more than a seam its a compleate disconnection of the limbs and torso from the rest of the sim the rest of the game runs smoothly and it perfectly playable but it is a rather annoying glitch
HELP ME
im dying here!!
ohk so,
evrytime i click the desktop icon or try to open the sims 3 any other way i get an error message that reads:
the application or DLL C:\windows\system32mscoree.dll is not a valid windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
it wont open and i even tried to take that disk back and reinstall the game of a new disk but i still have the same problem.
the game worked at first, and this is driving me crazy!
can anybody help??
please!!
xx.
Sims 3 was working fine a few days ago but now when I go on the Sims 3 Launcher and I click play it wont play. It just says
Unable to start game
Could not locate required directory [..\..\GameData] [AssetsBuildDir]
Can someone please help me??
Hey! So sims 3, what a crock of shit. I got the disc authentication failure error thing, and now it’s gone so far as to delete my disk driver software. Anyone know how I can get it back? Help would be greatly appreciated! xo
I have installed this, no trouble at all; went perfectly fine, updating also went fine.
Game starts up fine, but I can’t get any further than the Create-A-Sim section. After 10 minutes or so the game just closes, without any error or whatsoever. (This also happened before I updated it)
All my drivers are up to date, I meet all the system requirements, I uninstalled AVG, I don’t use the launcher to start up the game, I’ve tried windowed mode, … I tried every possible solution and yet I still get the same issue every time. It’s quite frustrating… What am I doing wrong?
I have a Intel Pentium 4 CPU running at 3.09 GHz, 1.50 GB RAM and a ASUS Radeon 9600 XT.
If anyone could help me out with this, I’d be really grateful. Thanks.
I’ve downloaded sims 3, done what i needed to do, when im installing it i get this feature transfer error File:F:Game/Bin/bin/cs-CZ/Sims3Launcher.resources.dll
Error:Incorrect Function
please can you tell me how to fix this
i really want to play
Alternate fix to #4 (works for me): first of all i have an EVGA 260GTX and the game kept freezing with all the #4 listed fixes applied, when i forced the videocard vent to 100% it stopped crashing (tested it twice), i think that in my case the game crashes when the gpu temp (using evga precision to monitor it) reaches 62C and over (69C was the max stable temp), sound weird but with the card below 60C the game works great and with all the graphic setting set to max, antivirus on, 1680×1050 fullscreen mode and max antialiasing.
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Hope this helps someone, have a nice one
when i put in the disc nothing happens it just stays on the same screen and its in perfect edition and i have a windows computer no mac help me !!!!!!
insert disc but program will not launch even if i click on the icon
HELP!
Sims 3 crash problems – strange one this…
my wife and I have SAME SPECS machines. we have the same OS, same software…
Works great on my machine, black screens on hers.. I have the NOCD Patch so I can run it without the CD, she doesn’t…
Specs:
AMD Phenom Triple core 8450 2.1ghz processor
Asus M3N78 Motherboard
Nvidia 9600GT XXX OC Edition
450w PSU
4gb DDR2-667 Ram (Generic)
I’ve just installed the EVGA tool to see if that helps it at all.. but I don’t know… her PC runs 8 degrees C cooler than mine (I have more fans, the only difference is case!) but I do have 3 hard disks compared to her 2. otherwise all the same…
I’ll post if the EVGA tool fixes the problem
I was wrong.. didn’t work…
Ugh! Okay so my parents just got this really nice new PC computer and I thought sims3 would work perfectly on it but it sucks. This is what always happens, the computer screen flashes black then come back and the screen is so dark I can’t even tell what’s going on. Then it keeps flashing until it finally crashes.
It sucks and I can’t even play for more then 5 minutes before it starts to freak out and I don’t think my parents would like me to uninstall the anti-virus. We have McAfee or something.
HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
While playing the sims 3, I saved my game and in the middle of saving the game it crashed! After restarting my computer (again), it shows that my file is still there, but it doesn’t show the family. It shows the outline of the family and when I click on it to play it, it doesn’t play at all. Any advice in solving this problem? This is the first time it has happened to me and I will be extremely upset if I can’t get my original file back.
please help thank you!
Otherwise, I will have no choice but to start a brand new file.
Hey guys I have collected some ides for fixing from different site, maybe things that are missing should be added in this thread.
-unplug computer from the internet
-usenewest direct x (10)
-use newest .net (3.0)
-use newest graphics driver
-do not use overclocking
-delete all previous sims games and drivers
(for a clean install of new software)
-clean install for all software (cleanest is format PC)
-us newest sound and board driver
-get the pc cooler (either graphics card or cpu overheat -> blackscreen/sound freeze)
-do not use a second monitor (disable second display)
-do not use anti virus software
-play game in windowed mode
-run defragmenter
The fixes should be done beginning with the ones that do not involve radical changes like formating.
What is missing in this thread is the fix to SWITCH OFF THE INTERNET ENTIRELY. Because the application constantly checks the EA servers for authentic software, these checks crash the game/pc because the servers are not fast enough or too busy or send wrong information.
Maybe EA intended to crash the games on purpose when it finds out that the copy is a crack. But the wiered thing is that it also happens with software that is bought. Mine for example is from amazon, I dont think they sell pirated software.
ever since i downloaded the sims 3 i start playing it but in the middle of the game it freezes and the screen turns black or blue if anyone know how to fix it pls tell me thanks pla write me an email on rebekahborg2@hotmail.com thanks
Hey
First of all i’m experiencing ‘problem #4′ and it is obviously very frustrating
The second thing is that it works perfectly fine on my sisters laptop – even more frustrating!
Lastly, i would list all of my specs but i really don’t know how to find out my specs as i’m really not good at computers. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!
Any help will be great, cheers.
Hey
First of all i’m experiencing ‘problem #4? and it is obviously very frustrating
The second thing is that it works perfectly fine on my sisters laptop – even more frustrating!
Lastly, i would list all of my specs but i really don’t know how to find out my specs as i’m really not good at computers. I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!
Any help will be great, cheers.
Email me at donka@f2s.com
Hi
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I get terrible screen tearing when playing sims 3 and am not sure how to enable vsync? My video card is ATI X1300 pro.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!
Hi, I installed Sims 3 just fine however when I try to start it, it goes perfectly fine at the beginning and the whole EA thing appears but after that I get the blue screen of death and my computer restarts. I have no idea what to do and I don’t understand computer jargon but here are the specs for my laptop:
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz
Memory(RAM): 1014MB
System Type: 32-bit Operating System
Thanks and I hope you reply to this soon.
I bought Sims 3 Yesterday & Uploaded It Onto My Vista. It Was Quite Slow But It Worked Fine. After 20 Minutes Of Playing The Screen Went Balck And It Started Clicking. So I Decided To Uninstall It And Try And Re- Install It.. But Everytime I Go Onto Computer, Then On Sims 3, Right Click & Install But Nothing Comes Up. Ive Been Trying All Day And It Doesnt Work. If You Know hat I Can Do Please Writee Bcak On Here But I Would Much Prefer If You Could Send Me An Email
loopyheather@fsmail.net
Thanks xx
OMG!
i CAN NOT get my sims 3 to work
it keeps saying
CRC error: the file C:/Program Files/Electronic Arts/the Sims 3/GameData/Shared/Packages/FullBuild1.package doesn’t match the file in the setup’s .cab file. The medium from you are running the setup may be corrupted; contact your software vendor.
Abort Retry Ingore
SOMEONE HELP ME ! ! !
I’m having a problem saving my sims 3 game, It’ll save if I save almost as soon as I start playing but after about five minutes I’ll just get an error 13 when trying to save. I’m fairly certain it hasn’t got anything to do with my computer. I’ve tried everything from Disc checking, uninstalling programs, defragging my hard drive, deleting the bad file but nothing works. This is just so frustrating
[...] habe ich im Netz gefunden: Quelle: How to fix Sims 3 Errors, Crashes, Disk Authentication Failure, Black Screen and Install Errors. | G… Problem #1 : Sims 3 Error message ?Device 0 cannot run this title There is no video graphic card [...]
When I click the “Sims 3 Game Launcher” to start up the game or install official game content from EA, an error box pops up saying: Sims3Launcher has encountered a problem and needs to close. I meet and/or exceed all minimum requirements for the game to run and have emailed and been on the phone with EA with no help. Has anyone had this problem and figured out a fix for it yet?
When I go on create Sim my sims body splitz if I want make him Fatter.Please help
Every time i try to put a house on a lot, it freezes while it is procesing. Does anyone know how to fix it?
i downloaded custom content and the first few times i did it worked…but now that ive downloaded more on the sims 3 game launcher and select the content i want installed it doesnt work…i tried deleting my already installed content from the launcher and then it still doesnt work!!! Help me please!!!
i also keep getting a blue screen switching in beetween build and buy modes… please help id really appreciate it!!
thanx
– Kasey
I cannot see my sims that I create. They are black with green and red lines all over them. Sometimes I can see them, but only for a split second or two. I can’t see other sims either. Also, some floors, like wood, don’t show up. They flash red and purple.
I know that other people have this problem. I just can’t find an answer.
I saved my game in 3X mode and it now loads in 3X speed but thinks it’s at 1X speed….how do I fix this? everything is too fast!
whenever i start my game and move into a home and then i tell my sim to do somthing and then they get stuck in the mailbox and cat do anything. if there is a solution to this please let me know. thanks
After I installed Sims 3, I’ll click it to play it and it tells me that the application failed to initialize properly…how is this fixed? thanks!
My problem is that it crashes when i click playon game launcher.
I have 2Gb RAM
160Gb Hard Disk
17inch TFT monitor
Geforce Nvidia 8800GT 512MB DDR3
IntelCor2Duo E4500 2.20GHZ
I have installed new windows xp For 2 times but it still Show’s the error…
Device 0 Video Card Not Supported
I Don’t Know What To Do I have been waiting to play this game for years and when it finally released i can’t so plz if you know plz help me
Mine dosen’t even open. It crashes when loading the game, in EXACTLY the same place. Contacted EA, they keep giving me crap ideas, and my Dad’s Vista (which I play on cuz it looks better than on my laptop.) meets all the requirements.
Mine does freeze randomly everytime I go to play it. I tried all i can but nothing seems to work. My specs are as follows:
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
1 GB Ram
Windows XP Media Center
ATI Radeon X1600
19″ Dell Monitor
YOU NEED 2 GB OF RAM TO RUN THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I admit, my laptop is NOT up to the required specs of the game, so it runs a little slow.
I WAS having serious problems with the BSoD, in the “black screen with sound” flavor. I updated ALL my drivers and my WinXp, I disabled my internet, and I played it in Window mode. Played the game again all last night without a single crash.
So, if this variety of BSoD is your issue, you may want to give those three things a try, specifically.
AHH Chris, i am having the same problem!
no solution.
My sims just get stuck in the mailbox and the actions just flicker on and off and do nothing.
I really hope there’s a solution for this..
I’m running it on a mac also.
CORRECTION for AJ:
No for XP you only need 1 GB RAM. Read the requirements carefully. Requirements can be found on the cd in a readme or after install in startmenu folder of ElectronicArts->Sims3 in a readme.
HOW TO GET YOUR SYSTEM SPECIFICATION:
VISTA: open Startmenu -> enter “dxdiag” in the search field(opens direct x screen) -> click “save all info/alle info speichern” -> save this to the desktop (file on desktop is readable with editor) -> copy and paste content of file on the net
XP: open Startmenu -> click Ausführen/Execute -> type “dxdiag”(opens direct x screen) -> lick “save all info/alle info speichern” -> save this to the desktop (file on desktop is readable with editor) -> copy and paste content of file on the net
ANOTHER TIP:
Use EAs support site or the support pages delivered when installing the game: can be found in startmenu folder of ElectronicArts->Sims3->technicalSupport.htm/Technischer Kundendienst.htm (something like that)
PLEASE POST YOUR DETAILED SYSTEM SPECS AND PROBLEM FOR BETTER HELP:
The more info the easier it is to find the problem. It is not of any help spaming the thread with help messages without any details or agreeing with others that it isnt working.
sims3 crashes in buy mode, I’ve tried everything and everything is up to date. Not sure but think it has something to do with downloads, because all of my lots are very expensive where as they weren’t before I had to restore my computer.
sims3 crashes in buy mode, I’ve tried everything and everything is up to date. Not sure but think it has something to do with downloads, because all of my lots are very expensive where as they weren’t before I had to restore my computer, and redownload game. I’ve updated drivers tried just about everything nothings working
My game messed up and I don’t really understand what happened. I got the launcher error that alot of people have been getting so I tried going directly to the game and it just pulled up pictureveiwer so I went to uninstall the game and it keep giving me the message error with whatever file. the device is not ready to uninstall. I don’t get it. Can someone give me advice on how to fix it? Also BTW I have a Windows XP
@ Kate
LAUNCHER(or EADM)-ERROR + POSSIBLE FIXES
1. read the main post and the tips I gave in the posts above.
2. the error can be caused by a corrupted download try to delete all corrupted or paused downloads from the EADM
3. the error can be caused by corrupted config files in your Sims3 custom content folders found under My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\
Delete this folder after saving a copy to another location, if this works, start the game again: the game recreates the structure of this folder and you can reinstall your custom content.
4. the error can be caused by corrupted files in the main game folders found under Programs\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\
Try cleanly uninstalling the game, after saving all your custom content, and reinstalling the game again
5. if you really need a clean system: format your computer and reinstall Windows with all the up-to-date drivers and software
Here are the requirements and possible SOLUTIONS TO VARIOUS PROBLEMS (some already mentioned in the main post):
-use newest directX version (9.0c for XP, 10 for Vista)
-use up-to-date version of OS (newest Service Packs, relevant updates)
-use newest .net (3.0)
-use newest graphics drivers and tools
-us newest sound and board drivers
-do not use overclocking
-delete all previous sims games and drivers
-clean install for everything(format PC is the hardcore version)
-get the pc cooler (either graphics card or cpu overheat -> blackscreen/sound freeze)
-check hardware compatibility of your system components (for self modded computers)
-do not use a second monitor/or graphics card (disable/uninstall second display, do not use SLI/disable SLI in BIOS)
-do not use anti virus software/Firewalls or adjust Firewall(crazy but EA-recommended)
-unplug computer from the internet
-play game in windowed mode
-run defragmenter
-in Vista: give the Launcher, EA Download Manager and/or Sims3 Game Administrator rights and XP Compatibility mode (for that open the attributes of the applications)
-add the EA website and download servers to trusted websites (in your firewall settings and/or internet settings of windows)
Hope that helps a little.
ADDITION:
the most important thing you have to do first, check the minimum requiorements of the game for your system (check whether your graphics card is supported, how much RAM is needed etc.
My sims 3 disk plays sometimes and other times it says “no disk inserted” when it is in their..I dont know what is going on with it but I never had these problems with the sims 2.
Maybe your disk has scratches or is dirty
PS: Or maybe your DVD device is to old: try updating the drivers.
My Sims 3 error is that sims are disappearing from their families. I’ll load a saved game and all of a sudden a sim is missing and their icon isn’t even there. Please help!
no I checked it, if it wasnt in the case it was in my computer, it keeps saying “disk authentication failure” i checked other websites and this happens to alot of people, there’s supposed to be a patch for it but i havent been able to find it.
Sims 3 Error message “Device 0 cannot run this title There is no video graphic card supported check your system hardware”
Solution A :WHAT DOES THIS MEAN????????I have the same problem………… If you are attempting running Sims 3 with a secondary monitor attached, The game wont work and you will get this error. Try to disable the second monitor via display properties or unplug it prior to running Sims 3
my problem is that i was play perfectly fine until I install the new patch, I follow all the instructions before, like do it in a clean install, no caches, no mods, no downloads, everything install perfect but I had the desktop crash in build mode issue. I back to the previous version 1.2.7 and the game run perfectly, any one knows what happen? I just want to play and I really want the fixes of the new patch
@MArlena
Try to reset your sim:
open the console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (for germans Strg+Alt+Entf)
then type into the console “resetsim SIM_NAME” or type “help resetsim” this shows how to use this.
@Monique
You maybe have 2 graphics cards installed or 2 monitors in use for the computer, ask someone that knows a little about computers, u should not use 2 cards or/and 2 monitors.
Other reason for this error can be that your graphicscard is not supported by the game check the requirements of the game and your graphics card info.
@saidav
actually I had the same problem, but luckily when turning of internetconnection everything works fine. I also do not have any da….. clue why this is the case.
I cant get the sims working on my Desktop either, its only working on laptop. I think this issue is not solved so easily and fast, I am not even sure whether they will fix it at all.
I think that it is an issue with incompatibility with a lot of systems, because EA made the game available for so many platforms, but thats just a guess,
A 90% chance that the internet and security tools of the game are the biggest reason.
Actuallly I didnt even encountered the problems the new patch fixed, it was just small bugfixes for me and not a huge step into compatibility mode
Sorry First was for Nanette
This is for Marlena:
I think the Sims3 patches cleared this issue, download the latest patch with the Launcher.
Otherwise check your DVD drive: update drivers or try a newer drive.
I know there was a fix, but I cant remember where? My favourite citation: Google is your friend!
@MArlena
You have to google wisely my first hit was the following, sounds kind of helpful:
Unfortunately for some of us, the recently released Sims 3 can cause some headache, especially due to some unwanted errors, like the “Disc Authentication Error” message many people are reporting (which appears to be generally connected with the “MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-841S” device. But don’t worry anymore! Thanks to Electronic Arts we have the answer to correct the disc authentication error on your computer!
According to an official troubleshooting message, this disc authentication error in The Sims 3 usually appears when or if your machine has DLA installed on it (software that allows DVD recording by drag and dropping). Here is what you have to do in order to deal with this problem and solve it:
- Click on the Start menu on the Windows Taskbar.
- Click on My Computer.
- Right-click on the DVD drive letter you are using to run your game.
- Select Properties from the list of options.
- You should see a DLA tab in the Properties panel, where you can disable the DLA software on your machine.
If disabling the DLA software from the Properties panel does not solve your issue, you can also try to update the drivers for your DLA software through the manufacturer’s website. If updating your drivers still causes you to get the ‘disc read authentication’ error, you might want to completely uninstall your DLA software using the ‘Add or Remove Programs‘ tool in the Control Panel.
If you have no DLA but still receiving the Disc Authentication Error message, you should try to turn off or uninstall any disc emulation software you might have (such as Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%). Hope this solves you disc authentication problems in the Sims 3 and you can fully enjoy your game!
I will be away for about two weeks, so I cant answer questions, be patient.
PS: I have send a support issue to EA for my problem with the computer and sims3 and have attached the direct x diagnos file.
I will let you know when they find a solution, maybe its of help for others.
thank you for your answer we wait for you
i have nvidia geforce g 105m and when ever i click in buy mode sims just exits buy it self
ive tried everything
i have nvidia geforce g 105m and when ever i click buy mode it just exits by itself
ive tried everything
My crashes at the load up screen. EVERY time it gets a little way (not even a 1/4 of the way) and crashes at the same exact time. I’ve tried un/and re- installing SEVERAL times. I’ve deleted all of my custom content. Deleted the previous saved files and everything. STILL it crashes the same time. I can’t even put it in window mode cause I can’t get past the loading screen. Help?
Thanks in Advance
Tonya
Heyyyyyyyy back again, I actually have Internet here weeehuuuu, in the middle of the mountain in Bavaria
Ok to the answers.
@Sara
Did u check wether your graphics card is supported (in the requirements)? See this website of EA to CHECK YOUR SYSTEM:
http://www.ea.com/games/the-sims-3
On the left side simply click “Perform your check now!”
If you tried all the above listed tips and sites contact EAs DIRECT CUSTOMER SUPPORT at:
http://customersupport.ea.com/
There you can first search for help and then send an email with details about your problem: I have a question answer thingy going on right now with them, they are quite fast with answering.
@Tonya
To put into windowed mode, go to the custom content folder and open Options.ini with a texteditor.
Search for the word fullscreen there change fullscreen=1 to fullscreen=0
For the CRASHING ON UPLOAD specially read the following:
http://tinyurl.com/clearTempFiles-Sims3
For CRASHING IN GENERAL read the following:
http://tinyurl.com/crash-Sims3
http://tinyurl.com/lowerGraphics-Sims3
http://tinyurl.com/easyinfo-sims3
http://tinyurl.com/endTasks-Sims3
i have 2 high end machines with more than adequate video cards, and yes the cards have the latest nvidia drivers for each. in addition, extra cooling is applied to the machines externally via small fans blowing fresh air at the cooling intakes. both cards run hot, and only on the sims. further, resource use jumps far higher than with any other program. for example, guild wars boosts resource use from about 27% to about 35%, but the sims boosts resource use to 67% and higher. i can run nearly every other program i own simultaneously with less increase. the boxes are both 64 bit with 6GB of ram for one and 8GB of ram for the other. the OS is Vista Ultimate, and AV is McAfee on the former and Kaspersky on the latter. The cards are: nvidia 9800 GT with 512MB on the 8GB machine, and nvidia GTX 260 with 896MB on the 6GB machine. my thinking is major memory leaks. so far, the GTX 260 has not failed, but the 9800 GT certainly has any time the external fan is not porperly aimed. the weird thing there is the 9800 GT does not get nearly as hot as the GTX 260. speedfan shows a 25 degree lower temp on the 9800. both machines also have intel quad processors. sims 3 is the ONLY program of many high end games to cause any trouble for either machine.
my the sims 3 crashes in build/make a sim mode. When it crashes it comes a blue screen with lots of words and it immediately restart my pc…my pc is of 2/3 years ago.
HELP! THANKS:::)
@blacked out of sims
I noticed the same things. My guess is similar:
I think the programm is buggy concerning detail level of the graphics in game (backface culling, edge reduction etc.) thats why it always crashes when zooming or panning to fast in the game world. Also the crashes when going from create a sim back to the map is caused by that. It must have something to do with the cash and pageerrors, graphical data loading from disk to cash.
I guess the reason for this is that even the same graphics card can differ dependend on the manufacturer: for example my RADEON is developed by HIS and the game does crash although the card should be supported.
But I say it again, this is just a guess.
@Francesca (are you german?)
READ POSTS ABOVE AND SEND DETAILS ABOUT YOUR PC
My game crashes when I try to start a game. It loads perfectly etc, but when I pick the town I want to go to and press the button, it just crashes. I can’t figure out what’s the problem; it used to work perfectly.
@ Possu
See Posts above: “try delete custom content folder”
Hi…
i cant play the sims3 it keeps saying :- no game disk found!please insert the sims3 game disk before proceeding!!
i hope u help me..^_^
says my ati2dvag driver is not working normally when i go into create a sim i get black screen or else crashes to desktop with error message….i hav radeon x300 so should be working but just isn’t =[
pleeeez help?
@MG
see my post 129: Lexi — August 10, 2009 @ 4:41 am
@halpo read main post: update your graphics drivers
PS: @all
check if you have a 64bit processor: Sims3 only supports 32bit systems
My computer for example has a Athlon 64 although with windows 32bit version, this causes trouble and the game crashes.
I should try the 64bit version of windows maybe the problem is fixed then. But it could be of no help as well. EA made tghe suggestion to reduce all the options in game to minimum, then it could maybe work, i’ll see if that works.
my sims 3 game crashes every time i play it! sometimes after 20mins sometimes only 10. always different random times. my computer is Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 3
4 CPU
3.07GHz
1.49GB RAM
graphics card is Intel and the drivers are all up to date and it supports pixel shading 2.0
hi i bought sims 3 and installed it and everything!!! played it for awhile and shut my laptop…i tried paying it and it says something about insert the right disk error…i unistalled it and now my computer won’t install it back on please help i llove this game!!!
i bought sims 3 about a month ago, and installed it on more than one computer. on one my computers, it will crash randomly and freeze…but when it freezes im in either buy or build mode. when i try to get back to live mode, it wont. i tried to save because it said it was in live mode, but when i went to the save button it said i had to save in live mode. i can switch to build or buy mode while it “froze” and i can take pictures and such, but i cant command my sims. i dont want to quit because i spent so long and i dont want to lose it. how can i save it??
My Sims freezes every time i play. My specs: AMD athlon x2 dual 3,0 ghz; 4 gb ram, ati radeon hd 4850, vista ultimate 32 bit, it’s a month old computer… I bought a new cooler for the graphics; cleaned my registry, installed new drivers for my graphics; i play in windowed mode with avast disabled… and it still randomly chrashes- freezes and than i have to manually restart my system… Why, o God why???
@All latest posts,
did u check the last posts and my suggestions?
specially when your processor is a 64 bit processor the game wont work. (only if you are lucky it will)
Thanks Lexi
THE BLACK SCREEN IN SIMS 3 ISN’T A PROBLEM OF A GRAPHIC CARD
HAVE THIS PROBLEM THE PEOPLE THAT CAN’T COMPLETE THE UPDATE !!! REINSTALL THE GAME !
AND NOT SHARE THE VERSION 1.0.615.00107 IS A FUCKING VERSION !
hell, i even downgraded from 1.4.6. version because i had some problems…
I am getting quite pissed with EA at the moment my question answer game with the support team is now going on since July and it seems as if the answers are automated and not individual answers. Constantly ignoring what the customer writes.
I gave it up right now, to get tha game working on my PC, luckily it works on my laptop.
Concerning 64bit processors, I wrote to EA that my Athlon 64 Dual Core +6000 supports both 32bits and 64bits, I still did not get an answer wether this affects anything in the game.
But to my knowledge (I studied Applied Computer Science) there shouldnt be a problem, my system uses XP Pro 32bit and is running fine with the 64bit processor, as the system uses 32bits, the game shouldnt have any problems.
For those who want to know what these BIT values mean:
32 bits / 64 bits is the size of words (code words, instructions) a computer can use/analyse. Such a word has a special structure: the first 8 bits for example are header information about the instruction type, then there are bits of the actual instruction code and after that other information.
A game needs to know which structure is used to create the right instructions/code. If a game uses 32 bit words it has to analyse code in another way than when using 64bits.
As Sims3 does not support 64bits it would read a 64bit word as if it were 2 32bit words and therefor messing up. This makes the system crash, because the game thinks it gets header information of the second word allthough it is still reading the body of a 64bit word…..
With a processor like mine it is possible to use either 32 or 64bits, your choice. As my OS is the 32bit version of Windows XP pro there schouldnt be a problem.
BUT as I am not a programmer of Microsofts or EAs software I dont know wether this combination of 64bit processor and 32bit OS could cause trouble when playing 32bit games.
I think its a matter of support for the technology as there are so many vendors like AMD, INTEL, HIS, ATI, … it is difficult to say where exactly the problem is. So I can to some point understand EA. Nowadays its tough to create a game that can be used for any thinkable configuration of system.
Hmm I have to admit that there answers are damn fast, just send an update of my question and a few hours later they come up with another solution suggestion, Ill try the idea tomorrow, it says that there are several recorded problems with Ati Radeon 2600 Cards and that a critical fix is available and the setting for anti-alising has to bechanged. Ill tell you more tomorrow.
Hi.
My problem is that the game crashes after the neighborhood loads.
What should I do?
Thanks!
C’ mon Lexi, we are waiting and praying…
back again ok here it is:
…I would like to let you know that there are some issues reported with ‘ATI Radeon 2600′ graphics card while playing the game with ‘Edge Smoothing’ setting enabled in the game options. I may request you to try disabling this setting and try the game again.
Also, you may need to download a hotfix for your AMD Athlon processor. It also provides a resolution to intermittent crashes that may occur when graphics settings are set to Maximum. Please visit the below website:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Hotfixfor3DGames.aspx
If everything fails, you will want to attempt to adjust the advanced graphical settings on your video card. Follow these instructions to adjust your video cards Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings:
1. Right-click on your Desktop and choose Properties.
2. Click on the Settings tab and then click on the Advanced button.
3. The Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering options will be in the following window however certain manufacturers will include custom tabs which may make it more difficult to find.
1. ATI lists these options on the OpenGL and Direct3D tabs.
2. Nvidia list these options on the tab that has the name of your video adapter. You will need to click on the Performance & Quality option that displays from the pop-up window
4. Once you’ve found the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering options, adjust them so that they are controlled by the application or program.
* Note: These should be the set to application controlled by default unless the graphical settings on your video card have been adjusted before.
5. If after adjusting these settings you are still experiencing the same issue, adjust the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering to the lowest setting or disable the options completely.
Please update us on any significant development with this issue.
…
I tried that out, didnt work still experiencing crashes. I send them some details about errors occuring after the crashes.
Goto: Open your system settings and administration and there open event… dont know that in english. Ther you can find logging info about everything. goto system and if there are errors remember what the last entry is, start the game until the system crashes and check all new entries.
For me there were errors saying I had a system crash, one that said that a service could not load (cdrom service, might be the reason for the crash) and some other errors.
EA currently handed over to some technicians that try to find the reason and figure out wether any of these errors is the reason, so far this is my answer from EA:
…
Please know that I’m escalating this issue to our senior level for proper handling. Someone should be in contact with you soon regarding this issue. I apologize for any prolonged delays this might cause, but please rest assured that we are trying to handle your issue in a timely manner.
…
So be patient guys, but I can tell you that EA confirmed that there are several people with ATI Radeon 2600 cards experiencing problems. They are working on that subject. And as we all know the update of catalyst software and drivers is not the best.
Hopefully they will soon get a patch or grill ATI’s A…..
@Daniel
c’mon X times I have said: add details about your system and read the above posts.
back again ok here it is:
…I would like to let you know that there are some issues reported with ‘ATI Radeon 2600? graphics card while playing the game with ‘Edge Smoothing’ setting enabled in the game options. I may request you to try disabling this setting and try the game again.
Also, you may need to download a hotfix for your AMD Athlon processor. It also provides a resolution to intermittent crashes that may occur when graphics settings are set to Maximum. Please visit the below website:
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Hotfixfor3DGames.aspx
If everything fails, you will want to attempt to adjust the advanced graphical settings on your video card. Follow these instructions to adjust your video cards Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering settings:
1. Right-click on your Desktop and choose Properties.
2. Click on the Settings tab and then click on the Advanced button.
3. The Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering options will be in the following window however certain manufacturers will include custom tabs which may make it more difficult to find.
1. ATI lists these options on the OpenGL and Direct3D tabs.
2. Nvidia list these options on the tab that has the name of your video adapter. You will need to click on the Performance & Quality option that displays from the pop-up window
4. Once you’ve found the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering options, adjust them so that they are controlled by the application or program.
* Note: These should be the set to application controlled by default unless the graphical settings on your video card have been adjusted before.
5. If after adjusting these settings you are still experiencing the same issue, adjust the Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering to the lowest setting or disable the options completely.
Please update us on any significant development with this issue.
…
I tried that out, didnt work still experiencing crashes. I send them some details about errors occuring after the crashes.
Goto: Open your system settings and administration and there open event… dont know that in english. Ther you can find logging info about everything. goto system and if there are errors remember what the last entry is, start the game until the system crashes and check all new entries.
For me there were errors saying I had a system crash, one that said that a service could not load (cdrom service, might be the reason for the crash) and some other errors.
EA currently handed over to some technicians that try to find the reason and figure out wether any of these errors is the reason, so far this is my answer from EA:
…
Please know that I’m escalating this issue to our senior level for proper handling. Someone should be in contact with you soon regarding this issue. I apologize for any prolonged delays this might cause, but please rest assured that we are trying to handle your issue in a timely manner.
…
So be patient guys, but I can tell you that EA confirmed that there are several people with ATI Radeon 2600 cards experiencing problems. They are working on that subject. And as we all know the update of catalyst software and drivers is not the best.
Hopefully they will soon get a patch or grill ATI’s A…..
hi my sims 3 game crashes every time after 20 mins what i Should i do !!!!!!!!!
help !!!!!!!
when playing the sims 3 in any mode the screen goes black pops back with a message saying some thing stopped responding but successfully recovered what can i do to stop this from happening because i can play the pc game but would really love to with out this going on.
@Shelly
Wow a new thing: its the first time I hear about such a behaviour in the game. Always something new
@ALL
CHECK ALL my POSTS and the MAIN POST for problem solving.
I have added everything I know so far. Cant say more then that unless you give details about your system.
I first got it, I was tempted to leave the game on over night for early morning gaming
The sims3 is a big game, and over-use like my case will crash it and cause graphical issues. I’m debating over reinstalling, and losing all my data..
-I have a graphic card over requirements and a computer that works fine.
when i click on the play button on the menu, my screen goes completely black. i can’t even play, what do i do??
OOOmg people you imagine the pain I have right now….The saddness the disappointment….I was saving the Sims3 and I pulled the laptop and it shutted off…yup…i had no battery…when i started everything again it was normal but problem is…when i click rivervally which is the world i wsa playing it doesnt display my sim…it is just empty my name is on the top date everything but when i click it is no go….idk what to do…because there must be a way right….i have the save file on the actual computer so some code was corrupted while it was saving…or maybe is something else?
sooo sad….please help spread the word…
AAAH please advice me what to do… Please help this fellow gamer out…hear my cry…. i lost my family…my friends….Most of all MY HOME!
The options dialog box (where you can change the graphics and gameplay seettings) won’t stay open. I’ll try to open it, and It will flicker briefly before disappearing. It appears to close itself immediately after I open it.
Okay, so I’ve got a whole host of problems, but the fact that my game crashes in buy mode is currently the biggest. I’ve disabled my antivirus software, I’m running the game in windowed mode, and my drivers are all up to date. My computer is well above and beyond the minimum requirements to run the Sims 3, and I’m running Vista 64. Any more troubleshooting suggestions?
Hello all,
When I installed the Sims 3, my computer crashed right in the middle of it. Problem is, I can’t play the game now, nor can I uninstall the game itself to try installing it fully again. Could anyone help me with this problem? Thanks in advance!
i have a brand new dell studio 17 laptop; nothings wrong with it.
i got the sims 3 as soon as it came out and have been playing it since then.
just recently when i try to play the sims 3, the launcher will come up but then all of a sudden a blue screen pops up and says the computer has encountered a problem and automatically shuts my computer down.
what’s the deal?
email me the solution, b/c i highly doubt i get back on this website.
thanks.
None of the above worked for me :\
I crash even in windowed mode; the last remaining image is frozen along with a high-pitched squeal from the speakers until I force shutdown/restart. Here’s my specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
3GB DDR2-800
8800GTS 640 SLI
SoundBlaster Audigy
Vista 32-bit
Windows 7
1,5GB RAM
Nvidia Geforce 6200 512 MB
Intel Pentium 4 2.66GHZ
I have install the lastest patch of sims 3 en my crased by Buy mode!
I am having a problem where I can play everything fine exept when my sim goes to try to do anything on the computers in the game. When it does that my computer which is a Compaq Presario PC crashes.
I have the problem where it randomly crashes when in build mode. I updated my card, it is an acceptable one. but i cant switch it to windowed mode because the options menu will not show up. I can click on the 3 dots at the bottom, but when i click on ‘options’ a box (which i assume is the options box) flickers on and then off instantly, and i can never get it to show.
Em well my sim was down on energy and needed a shower and was hungery, but i totally forgot, so i sent it with the rest of the sims to put one there family members in the grave yard, and like everyone went home but then, my sim just stayed there and cancelled the meet up activitie and i tried sending it home and stuff but it wont let me do anything, it just stuck on the cancelled meet up activitied and wont go away, and all my other sims are fine, so i dont know what to do please help me?
@ MrKMG (Comment #31)
Thanks! That saved one of my games. That is indeed a valid solution and problem, so it should be added to the list.
@ Lexi
Wow, quite the helper.
You’re CPU isn’t a problem. If that’s what EA told you, they’re just riding the disclaimer because they don’t know what the issue is/don’t care to try and find it. I am running a 64-bit CPU myself (as are many others I’d wager, as most CPUs these days are 64-bit), and the game runs fine. I’m also running it on a 64-bit OS (Windows 7 RC to be precise). The game works near perfect for me.
I have had two crashes since it came out (both were crashes to the desktop with no errors). One was when three characters tried going into a larger sized house I just built, and another recently during a save attempt. Both dumps I have claim they were caused by one write error, and one read error, so maybe my overclock (the RAM, precisely) isn’t entirely 100% stable (I’m running 8GB of RAM via four modules, and overclocking with four modules takes more toll). The game generally works fine for me. This just seems to be a game that is picky about the environment it’s in. Some PCs it won’t play nice with, be it the CD/DVD drive, CPUs or GPUs overheating, software drivers, etc. I do hope EA tries to make some more patches to get it better, and perhaps add a few things to the game itself to make it a bit better (though I like it worlds better than Sims 2, it is still missing a few things, but that’s for another time).
Good luck getting it working on your desktop (if you haven’t given up yet).
I have a problem all of a sudden with my sims 3. the screen is jumpy and kind of flashes and the sims are almost kinda stuck on moving fast even though slow is selected. Have never had this problem before – the 2 things i did different before playing were uploading new content – in this case a new town which was a free download with purchase and when i opened game…i deleted a previous game i didn’t like. Then when i opened the game i DO like it jumps when u move mouse to edge of screen etc. Really annoyed I want it to go back to normal so i can play =( HELP!
Black screen appears within 10 mins EVERY time… I have 2 PC’s and my new PC (Duo Core 2 with Nvida 7950GT) works fine. It is my old pc (the kids pc) which doesnt work. I have updated all of my Nvida Drivers incl Direct X separately from M/soft site…
Obviously SIM3 has lied to us all on the Spec required to run the games!!!!!!!
HP Pavilion
3.0 Ghz HT processor
1.25gb Ram
Nvida Gforce 6200 256 card
hi i have a problem
its prob 2 i tried to unistall avg(i did)
but it still crushed in building/ buying mode and then i tried to do windows but the oiptions menu didnt show up and im not patient so i almost threw my pc out of the indow and started swearing pls tell me what i need to do
hi i have a problem
its prob 2 i tried to unistall avg(i did)
but it still crushed in building/ buying mode and then i tried to do windows but the oiptions menu didnt show up and im not patient so i almost threw my pc out of the indow and started swearing pls tell me what i need to d
sims 3 worked great untill last updates then it crashed in the intro. ive uninstalled and reinstalled still came thing ea games has been dodging my issue for over a month now they have no answers for me can anyone hellp ive tried everything short of licking the disk
My screen is fine up until I click to choose a town, it turns red or black with glowing red things… I’m so confused! I’ve tried everything! Updated my video driver, re-downloaded, nothing is working! I thought it was a general sims 3 error but Sims 3 works fine until I choose a town Help?
When im playing the screen flickers black and the creen gets light then dark and if i ordered mty sim to the bathroom the mouse would be pointing to like the shower hard to explain but now i cant play
Hey guys,
as you may have noticed I did not answer for a long time. This is due to my upcoming work as I finished my studies right now. I gave up with the sims3 getting it to work on my pc.
As it is working on my laptop and I actually do not have that much time anymore, I will also stop answering questions here as I know only what I have written so far.
Wish you all good luck with fixing your problems AND:
READ THE ABOVE POSTS FIRST, befor asking questions
greets and be patient
Hey i tried to open the options menu and it just flashes the options menu and i cant get it to open to put it in windowed mode.. Any suggestions?
My game runs perfectly, no problems at all expect for when I open buy mode, it switches straight to build mode its own which works fine. If I then switch it back to buy mode the guys just goes off, no “not responding” or anything, it just turns off. I’ve tried all the help above to no avail. My specs are all fine, and like I said, the game only goes off on Buy Mode.
I also get the problem above where the Options menu just flashes on for a second then disapears.
Alicia who posted above, press ctrl and shift and c, a box will come up type in: fullscreen off that’ll put you in window mode.
Whenever my sims use the computer, the game just shuts down. Rather, the game shuts down as soon as they STOP using the computer. It’s happened to me with multiple sims from different houses or neighborhoods using different computers. It’s incredibly annoying as the computers are needed for some of the jobs and skills. Anybody know how to fix it?
Pls i need help,
when i try to install the sims 3 it always stops at a particular spot showing an error called: Feature transfer error (cyclic redundancy check error).
And i didn’t use eadm(ea download manger). Pls help me
Whenever I go to my family they all teleport to the same position as the mailbox and cant do anything
Yeah my Norton Ativirus causes The Sims 3 to crash on my computer. If I turn it off while I’m playing it runs and plays fine. The only problem is that my boyfriend yells at me every time he finds out I tunred off Norton… :/
On my sims 3, One person was potty training a baby and when it finished, they just got stuck in one place. This has happened once before on Sims 2, but I did not save it and it was fine. On this game I have accidentally saved it and now it looks like they are stuck for good, their health is deterioating what shall I do ?? Help !!
i just keep gettting error d3dx9_91.dll when i try to launch the game is says (bla bla d3dx9_91.dll bla bla bla try to reinstall the program)
i tryed to re0install but it did’nt work im trying to re-install now
I hvae a vaio computer and windows vista i beleive. My Sims 3 crashes whenever I try to do stuff with creating sims mostly. Could it be from a lot of the exchange downlads?
i have an ATI RADEON HD 4650 and when i play the sims 3 it’s all perfect for 10\20 minuts… after this the video crash and it show me “the video driver ati2dvag don’t work correctly now….”
i have all the driver up to date but it still to crash.
how can i do?
PLEASE HELP ME
my email:
ale_gol@hotmail.it
ATI Phenom 9950 Quad Core
Radeon HD 4850 graphics card
4 gigs of ram
Windows XP
All of my drivers are up to date.
The game keeps crashing randomly. Sometimes when creating a sim, the textures will get all spotty and it will get super slow. Sometimes when going to other lots, the grass texture will get spotty and it will crash. I’m re-installing right now to see if it’s just a problem loading the textures. But with my computer’s specs, there’s no reason the game should not be running flawlessly.
Okay, so not ONLY is my game crashing after buy/build mode, but I try to go to the options to change to windowmode, and it won’t even let me open my options. It doesn’t crash, it just won’t open when I click it. Does anyone know what’s up with this?? email me if so….
patience_marie@hotmail.com
-patience
i tried all of this. my sims 3 game crashes whenever i put a downloaded house onto a lot.. and when i am in create a sim, it immediately crashes after 30 seconds. has anyone had this problem? please help!
My boyfriend and I – as well as several others I’ve found on the internet – have the same problem: We create our Sim, and all works out – until we try to move. The moment we attempt to do so, our Sim gets stuck in the mailbox and can’t get out no matter what you click on or what direction you try to go in. The moment you go into Buy Mode, the entire thing crashes.
I bought Sims 3 DVD yesterday and when the installation is around half done it asks me insert next disk, but there is no next disk. It says please insert the disk 1 that contains the file Gamedata\shared\packages\FullBuild1.package.
what do I Do??
i installed the sims 3 a few weeks ago and haven’t had any problems what-so-ever. then I got a zune HD and had to update windows so that the software for it will work. Since the updates, the game crashes anytime I try to place anything in buy/build mode. Is there a certain update that caused it? Or could it be something else?
I have installed sims 3 when I had MSI motherboard and then the game was running great, but that motherboard isnt working anymore. Now I have BIOSTAR P31-A7 motherboard and I installed sims 3, run the game launcher and when I click play button, the screen goes black for 2 seconds and then it turns back on desktop…I dont think that motherboard is causing this problem but what is?
Biostar P31-A7 motherboard
Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU
2.22 GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS graphic card
Windows XP
help! i ran sims 3 in windowed mode for a few days. i could make sims for hours and it wouldnt crash. now it started crashing again! if you can help email me on :
mahnoor.pirzada@hotmail.com
when i go to creat a sim and try to make the sim fat, the body splits up,
help please!
Can anyone help Ihave been playing on game I bought since it came out no problems all off a sudden I cant upload on exchange i can download fine. If I try to upload I get critical system error . This just started in the last week.
I have Problem #6 : Sims 3 displays this error “Disk Authentication Failure” after pressing the Play button
but I have a Dell DeskTop and the DLA is no where to be found any help at all would be appreciated.
Hey umm my sims 3 has downloads from xm sims which is no problem but im comenting due to the fact that after downloading skins,the game says that the screen before you press the play button,(te online page)has encountyered an error and i cant play please help!!! :O
When I try to load Sims 3. From disc 1 I get a error caches/sunset valley object cache
BLACK SCREEN PROBLEM SOLVED!
Hey all, I recently bought Sims 3 and installed without issue. When launching, I would get a full black screen and then an immediate crash back to desktop. After reading everything I could find on the issue I found no help. Ultimately I figured out that the Sims 3 is NOT playable with the most recent Nvidia drivers. I had version 191.07 as of 11/09/2009. I found an older version… 190.xx I believe and now the Sims 3 play flawlessly!
I had Problem #7 (black screen) :
AMD 64 2.2ghz
4gb ram
windows xp 32
nvidia geforce 9400gt 1gb
the game would start but only saw a black screen then return to the desktop.
I fixed the issue by DISABLING Nod32
game run smooth now.
Hope it help
and i do have 191.07_desktop_winxp_32bit_english_whql installed
my problem is i can’t run the sims 3 anymore although i already played it the first time i installed it in my computer, i don’t know what has changed that it turned to this problem. my specs are seems ok. so what could be my problem?
Launcher freezes all the time.
Will not install anything from the exchange, getting a “update to latest version’ message. my game IS up to date.
Hairs disappear and all sims go baldy. have to keep rebooting the game until they come back.
Trouble downloading cc from the store that I have bought ! get a ‘failure to download’ message.
Choppy game play.
Very , very slow rendering, about 10 mins to load each section of the car journey, the town , the home. Infuriating !!
Game takes anywhere from 30 mins to an hour to load the game and a slightly less amount of time to save it.
I have seen other messages on forums with each of these problems but I have all of them at the same time!!!!!!!
Forgot to say Brand new Imac
OS X 10.6.1
3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
ATI Radeon 4850 512 MB
i’m having such a tough time with my game. just recently, i haven’t been able to go into buy mode at all. i uninstalled some stuff that could be causing conflict and it STILL doesn’t work. my computer meets all specs, and i have never had a problem with this game before.
this is what happens:
i go into buy mode–>deco—>click on something—>no warning, no error, screen shuts down and goes back to desktop. the game isn’t running anymore. T.T
please email katie.malloy@yahoo.com if anyone knows how to fix this!
when I try to save files in The Sims 3
I also have been having prblems #4 I’ve had the game since it came out. Been playing it with no problems until today!! After i downloaded to update the game won’t load. I uninstalled and took everything out that may be causing a problem and reinstalled twice now. I disabled norton updated my video card. I don’t know what else to do. As soon as I choose a town to play it just shuts off. just stops running. Like i said i don’t know what else to do. If anyone can help me it would be great!!
Please e-mail me if anyone can help me out.
jennifykiki@hotmail.com
Hi there,
I have a problem with the sims 3, everything went well, the game works BUT there’s no a single household available in the game!!! usually, there will have some household available to play with but there is NONE!!!
Why is this happening?
PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks
System
windows xp service pack 3
amd athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
3.11 ghz
2.0 GB
NVIDIA geforce gtx 280
iGB GDDR 3
The Sims3 and The Sims 3 world adventures
for so far my system information
My problem
My problem is that the game exits to windows when i try to add a basement to an existing lot
I can start a new lot and add a basment and then build a house no problem
but as soon as i import a lot from the libary and try to add a basement the game quits
can somebody shed some light on the case
sorry for my crappy english
Have just installed sims 3 – cannot get the game to start at all – black screen for about 5 seconds then nothing – like i did not even try to open it
Sims 3 crashes on build/buy mode after using motherlode cheat and continues to crash on other new games or loaded games.
Sims 3 was workign fine for me then this morning when i clicked the play button the whole screen would go black and there would be a beep so when i click the windows button a box comes up with unable to start game service initialization failed (0×6224dd27) I tried the solution to the first problem six (there are 2) but i could not find the dla on the properties menu thingy. I am not very good with computers I don’t know what a video card is or how to cool it. I have a dell inspiron 530 which was runnign the game very well until this happened whenever i try to install my downloaded content it says the same thing please help me asap!!!
my sims3 makes my computer act crazy. When i’m not playing, the the thing that you put the disc in opens and closes all the time. Also, when I’m playing, the screen often blacks out. After doing that the mouse acts weird and I have to shut it down. Any ideas on what is happening?
Hiya, I am not very good with computers and have just thought of somthing, when you click on sims 3 and the window comes up with the play button and everything and somtimes it comes up with updates and things for your game are those patches If they are then I am really annoyed because the last patch i installed made my game stop working I have the same problem as xyzar now and it is realy getting on my nerves!
I also noticed that I think the guy who is supposed to answer our questions has stopped answering them the last time he commented was like number 9 or somthing? I think he is called cake?
OH MY LORD!! i need freaken help!! after the game intro my game just shuts off!! i have tried re installing , and all my drivers are up to date but it still isnt working!! please help!! <:.’[
i recently got pc worked on hope have pc specs right. Compaq Presario SR1020NX Windows Xp Geforce 6600(AGP) Processor: AMD Atholon Xp 2000. Please Help me had games for 2 months couldn’t play due to video card. Got that fixed no this problem. The Game says: File:e\Game\Bin\bin\es MX\Sims3Launcher resources.dll HELP ME PLEASE!
ok. this is what happens to my sims 3 game.
(i have windows 7 by the way)
i start the game like i always do and if i even try to skip the intro movie my game shuts off and goes back to the desktop screen, now i tried watching the intro movie and when it went off the screen flashed gray then black and went to the desktop screen. i have tried re-installing and deleting custom content but my game still wont work!! please help.(im begging!) </3
I am getting a disk authentication error message after it starts up and Im about to click on my person. I have a mac… it just worked last night. Today it doesnt??
For crying out loud!!!
I get “Seviced Initilization Failed (0×039e8474)”
I click on play, the screen looks like its about to open it up and freezes for several minutes thn crashes with that error. I installed the game when it came out with no problems and shortly after that i took it off and just installed again but now i cant play it!!!
I just want a solution that doesnt involve uninstalling.
i spend like 5 hours yesterday making a sim, got him to max level at guitar and charisma, and got like milions of friends from parties and plays in park.. then i had this weird hugh money icon in the place where you earn money, like +100,
and then it just crushed, and it didnt save =[
got any idea what is it?
it didnt do any error, and im using widnwos…
My sims 3 won’t let me see traits anymore so i can’t make new sims any ideas?
Trying to re-install Sims 3 and it says:
File:d:\Caches\Sunset Valley.objectCache
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
I have a problem with the “Disk Authentification” thing too.
I own a toshiba laptop, then disabled the DLA, but it still wont work. I’m worried to download any of those “optomiser” programs because im all suspicious about viruses, HELP!
Thanks for putting this up here. Not sure if my problem has been fixed yet, but this was a nice fast answer to my problem.
So, thanks!
I have the same prob as chris. my sim is stuck in the mailbox and actions flicker in the corner of the screen. Please help! I paid good money for a game that doesn’t work. Windows 7.
well my problem is that, i dont know if is eny one of these.. :/, well when i run the sims 3 game, it goes throught the intro and then the loading part but after that it doesnt go on the menu of selecting wich sims houseold you want to play, if there is eny solutions can you tell me pleasee!
I just don’t understand..My game randomly crashes. No rhyme or reason, no particular spot makes it crash and sometimes doesn’t even slow down it just crashes to desktop. However, I have noticed 2 things, everytime I’m trying to design furniture/wallpaper/rugs or whatever, and every time I try to talk to the adventurer in China, it wants to shut down. Sometimes I actually make it through the design process. So like I said, no particular pattern. However, ever since I bought the first game (TS3) it has been crashing. I’m so tired of this.
(
Hey .. Ok so i had to install and uninstall mu sims quite often because it just wouldnt work … Everytime i install the game it wont let me play unless i update it (patch 1.6 i think). But then it just wont load the game, it says that a “unknown error has occurred”.
My computer is a Mac version 10.5.8.
2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
does anyone knows how to fix this?
i have installed sims 3 and everything worked perfectly but when i open the desktop icon and press play, the screen goes black like its about to load, then it returns to the desktop as if i hadnt opened sims. i really need a solution!!!!! any help?? is anyone else having the same problem?
mys sims 3 launcher won’t work. so now i can’t download my purchased downloadable material. when i click on it, it says that is has stopped working and must close…and something about an appcrash. please hlep…
I have install sims 3 and have been playing it with no problem, but when i tried to save a game it keeps coming up with Error 12. I have done a bit of research but nothing seems to work any ideas?
I keep on getting an error message: Update error: Invalid File Found. Is there a way to fix this? It happens every time when I try to run a patch for my The Sims 3 game.
I go to load up the game,
And i press the Play botton,
I have plaed this before but then i unistalled it, But before i unistalled it i had it on Window mode.
And everytime i press play, it goes Black gives me a error like
Unable to start game
Serive initialization failed (0×6224dd27)
Help ASAP pls.
As i would like to play
Hey all I tried to patch my sims 3 (rld ver)
And it comes up with all these invalid files in the game bin.
I’ve replaced the files but theres still a lot of errors.
Where can I download a file called
sims3launcher.resources.dll
directory :
C:Programfiles\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Game\Bin\bin\cs-CZ\Sims3Launcher.resources.dll
Help!
ok my husband just recently bought me the sims 3 world adbventures. I already had the sims 3 original i did not realise till he brought it home that my video graphics card was a ge force 6100 and was not compatible . so i went down to pc tech and they up graded it to a MSInx8400Gs also made by geforce . the tech said it would work i had brought my game in to show him. now neither sims3 or world exploration works. and everything in my nearly new pc is supposed to be compatible with these games. Please help!!! I feel Pissed off and Pissed on by ea games. bytw i already got rid of norton that didnt fix it
I’m the one who wrote about my husband buying me sims3 world explorations. my name is carrie the time here is 6:33pm the site marked it wrong
my sims run really slow. all the commands and reactions are delayed. It’s making the game unplayable.
the time goes amazingly slow and it takes a whole day to get through a whole day on the sims. is that normal?
Mine randomly crashed today,I guess I’ll try disabling what i says. I saw nothing up there about lagging in buy mode, I doubt it’s my graphics card since it’s a ge-force 9800,that can handle crysis for goodness sake. Is it a ram problem like I might suspect?
Hey um my game starts up normally without any problems but when it is loading on the first loading screen the bar fills as normal but nothing happens. The little message underneath does not change but the mouse icon is still that loading circle thing…help? I have already emailed and live chatted (lol) with a person but they havnt replyed to email within 24hrs and the lady just told me to email them so no good -.-
Anyone lol im deperate?
If i buy the expansion will this keep occuring?
My Sims 3 will not load. I press the start button and the screen turns to black and the computer restarts. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling but it doesn’t help.
when i go on the sims 3,it is okay until i go n build mode the a blck flahing scree comes up then it goes blue and it goes off. I hav tried everything else but nothing works!!! HELP !!!
When i go on my sims its fine but when i want to load the game it freeze(the game is still running but it wont continue loading.).. So pleasee help
i install the game but it takes ages and right at the last little bit of the installation it freezes and i cant cancel it i have to shut my computer down to cancel it, but i have service pack 3 not 2 will this make a difference . Can any one help me please?!?!
I can’t get the updates to download. I get the error Update error I/O operation failed (attribute modification). If anyone knows what I can do to fix this please let me know. EA support hasn’t been able to help me.
When I go to change active household, instead of entering my new household… it will just show me an image of the neighborhood and i will be unable to click on another house, or do anything… the menu at the bottom of the screen also disappears. if anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know asap.
So Im trying to update my Sims 3 WA to teh latest version and it tells me there is an incorrect file found. Installed Sims 3 1.8 update completely fine. Any ideas?
How do you fix graphics when you are trying to make your Sims fat or strong? Whenever I try to do this, my Sims figure becomes distorted.
When the intro video ends The Sims 3 ends
Any solutions?
Every time I try to download something it just comes up as unable to start game service initialization failed 0175d824 PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
i am very annoyed.. whenever I pause / go into buy or build mode and Click and drag it shuts down witout saving.. grrr.. does anyone know why? It’s kinda annoying because if you want to spray the grass.. Click- Drag- Crash
thanks
I’ve been playing the Sims 3 for a while and I’ve never had any problems but today i opened the launcher and clicked play. A box came up. It said ‘Error the process could not be started.’ Please help!
I seem to have the same problem as Richard. My house is one that came with the game, I added it to a lot and my sim lives there.
Well while I was customizing the house to my liking I thought I’d add a basement. Every time I go to click on the basement it closes out of the game.
Is there anyway I can fix this issue?
Thanks!!!
you have to buy a better vidio card to get the sims 3 to work i should know i had to buy i new vidio card with better resilution to get the sims 3 to work so BUY A BETTER VIDIO CARD
I load the sims 3 and it works fine. Then when it comes up to the main menu, where u select a town, my most resent town there, but its see through, all there is, is a house and a picture of a guy, i click on it for it to load, but it says, “a serious error has occured while loading “sunset Valley #3,sims3″ it is strongly recommended that you restart the application.” how do i fix it, and or restart it.
I have a quick question. After i download and install a sims in sims3, i lose it. i go back to edit town, no sims. i got back to create a sims and no sims. where else can i go to find it.
if someone has the answer to this problem, can you please email me? thank you so much! merry christmas everyone.
mrsknordquist@yahoo.com
Problem #2 occurs every time in build/buy mode.
I have so far tried:
1. Uninstalling AVG
2. Updating driver
3. Window mode
Here’s my system spec, thank you for your help:
Computer
Model : Sony VGC-RB44G
Processor
Model : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
Speed : 3.2GHz
Total Memory : 1.5GB DIMM DDR
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 167MHz (334MHz)
Video System
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT (16 SP 1.4GHz, 512MB DDR2 2×400MHz, PCIe 1.00 x16)
Storage Devices
WDC WD2500JD-98HBC0 (250GB, SATA150, 3.5″, 7200rpm, 8MB Cache) : 233GB (C:)
Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Media Center 5.01.2600 (Service Pack 3)
Platform Compliance : x86
My video card is fine. This is a gaming computer, brand new so I am positive that it is a different issue.
I can run the Sims 3 absolutely fine on game mode. But like I said I am having a basement issue with pre-made houses.
Hiya! I need some help. Everytime I try to start up the sims 3 this always comes up – The application or DLL c:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorwks.dll is not a valid WIndows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.
Then when I press okay this comes up – c:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/mscorwks.dll could not be loaded.
Any suggestions on how to get this to work?
i dont understand what it means when it says “ERROR – There was an error during startup. Please see the log for more details” what is the log? all it does is freeze up after showing me this mesage and dosent let me play the game!! please help me asap!!!
this site sucks and is not helpful at all!!!!! if you need help with the sims 3 go to the official sims website they will help you!!!!
hey, I just bought Sims 3 and installed it successfully, but whenever Sunset Valley is loading, the game just exits out and all I see is the desktop (not even any error messages!).
I (un)installed it several times, but the game ALWAYS crashed while loading Sunset Valley … anyone got the same problem or any ideas? please e-mail me: jessi-stern@gmx.de !!
I would really be happy about an answer! awwh wanna play Sims 3..^^!
xxx
So I just got my sims 3 game for Christmas.
I was so excited because it was the only good thing I got.
Then it froze during build/buy mode two times, and I had to shut down the whole computer.
I have AVG, but my mom won’t let me delete it.
So I’m pretty much screwed, right?
MY SIMS 3 HAS PROBLEM WHEN I INSTALL IT IT SHOWS ERROR OCCOURED PLESE SEND ME SIMS THREE DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE I HAVE ALL SOFTWARES BUT ITS NOT WORKING I HAVE LAPTOP DELL C640 SERIES ITS NEW AND PENTIUM 4
FUCK THIS GAME…………. MORE ERRORS AND MORE FUCKERS……………..
My sims 3 has troubles saving. It never says error anything. It just doesnt save my stuff. i saved several times but only shut off of the game 3 times. the 1st time i turned it back on it only saved my people not their house or anything they did. the second time it saved the people, their home, and part of what they did. but not much of what they did. so we switched to a new lot and made a copmpletely new home. and played for quite a while. this morning when i turned it back on our people were completely gone. they were no where to be found. the house and everything was gone. there was nothing saved at all. it was like it was never used.i check my hard drive its a 500 gb and it still is 60% free. now my computer is really slow. it took like 10 minutes to type this message and the game isnt saving. help?
I can’t even install Sims 3. It always gets stuck on File 3. And I cant get out of the installation without restarting my computer manually… For the past two hours it has said 38 minutes remaining. Last night for 1 hour it said 32 minutes remaing. And before that 32 minutes remaing for 2 hours. I then restart my computer and try it again. help please? Mac 10.6.2 2.53 GHz processor.
Okay so I just got this game. Both my PC and laptop can run it.
Problems:
On the PC (which is Windows XP) during Create-a-sim everything works except when I go to edit the face. It then freezes and I cannot exit with ctrl, alt, and delete.
On the laptop (which is Windows Vista and only a year old) i cannot change the weight or muscle of my sims. The sims react, but the sim glitches (such as the body is detached, head, etc.)
I have no idea what to do!
ok so every once in awhile when I quit sim 3 and come back a couple hours and I start the game the game starts but I can’t do anything but use the arrows to move my view. can you help because the is really pissing me off. also when this happens all my custom clothing reverts to what it was made from.
Ok…So I’m using a brand new Dell Inspiron and Sims 3 has worked perfectly fine for me the past few weeks. No glitches, errors or unexpected shut downs. That is until last night I tried loading the game like usual. The game went about it’s normal loading process, and all was well until I was asked if I wanted to continue my current game or begin a new one. I clicked to continue, and the game started to load. Only then did I encounter an issue. The load bar at the bottom of the screen paused and the screen went black (black screen problem #7) leading me back to the desktop. Is my computer’s video card busted? After barely a month of use? Please let me know soon! If you need specs please let me know how to find them…I’m not too computer savvy.
Thanks!
I was playing world adventures and then it said it wouldn’t save becuase it was error 16 or something. Ok so I cut my loses and decided I could just do it over. that was last night. I opened it today ow my person doesn’t show up, I have 0 dollars – I had almost 800,000 and I cant click any of the buttons. This is like the only person I have played while I have had the game and I had all the challeneges done on just the regular sims 3 – I think it is the world adventures. What the heck? has anyone else had this happen to them?
when i click on sims 3 setup this message show to me ” the specified path dose not exist check the path and then try again ” cane anyone help me ? please ….
This is for Sims 3. IT runs really slowly. but that isnt the problem that i want to talk about. create a sim is fine, but when im done and want to do something else like live mode, my sims are all blacked out. no matter how many times i restart it, the same thing happens. please help!
even though the disk is there, it says no disk found! when i try to play it
when i press the play button on game launcher, it just says no disk found! even if there is a disk.
my labtop is a toshiba easy media;
intel celeron;
windows vista
sims 3 crashed only 2 days after i first used it
it made me cry
right when i got home i put it in and it got stuck and we had to restart it to get it out and we got it out so we put it back in and it said that your version of DLA can read files on the disk but you will not be able to edit them or add them???i do not get that
I had the same thing that happened to kim’s (number 282).
When I try to access my family, a message pops up that says “A serious error has occured. It is strongly recomended that you restart the program”. And when i restart it, it does the same thing! it does this for every family i create.
Everytime I play the sims 3 a message pops up sayinng, “The ati2dvag display driver has stopped working normally. Save your work and reboot the system to restore full display functionality. The next time you reboot the machine a dialog will be displayed giving you a chance to upload data about this failure to Microsoft.” This happenes while i am creating a sim( it crashs when i pick out the hair of a girl). I have downloaded a new graphic driver but the message continues to pop up. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!
OK WHEN I INSTALLED SIMS 3. I KNOW I FULLY INSTALLED IT RIGHT AND THE LAPTOPS IS A HP PAVILLION.TEH NEW ONE TAHTS HAS LIKE BUBBLES ON TOP OR SOMETHING AND LIKE WHEN I INSTALLED SIMS 3 ALL THE WAY WHERE U CAN PLAY IT AND LAUNCH THE APPLICATION >WELL I PRESSED THE PLAY BUTTON AND IT JUST TURNED BLK AND I COULDNT BRING UP TASK MANAGER OR LOG OFF BY PRESSING ALT DEL AND CTRL.I MEAN I WAS SHOCKED BCAUSE I BOUGHT THIS LAPTOP ON CHRISTMAS EVE AND LIKE IT DOESNT PLAY SIMS AND ITS BRAND NEW AND ALSO ITS LIKE FROM ONE OF THE BEST PLACE TO BUY A LAPTOP,BEST BUY. SO PLZZZ HELP ME!
ummm i was wondering if anybody else has a problem with their sims 3 game getting stuck on the loading screen? i had downloaded some different hairstyles and stuff for my game and they worked fine.but i didnt want to slow the game down or mess up my laptop so i deleted most of the downloaded stuff. i restarted the game and it started getting stuck on the loading screen. i then deleted all of the downloaded content but my game still kept getting stuck on the screen. after restarting, uninstalling and reinstalling my game still keeps getting stuck on the screen…the little loading bar loads fast but instead of progressing to the next screen where you pick which saved game/world you want to play it just stays on the screen with the loading baar and stuff…can someone tell me what i can possibly do to get my game to start working right again??
my sims3 has a launcher error and i don’t know what to do about it. so wha should i do?
My sims three has a launcher error. What should i do
My sims3 has a launcher error.What should I do?
My game has a launching erro
I just go the sims 3 and it it super slow and freezes constantly then blacks out on my labtop.I cant even enjoy my game. Someone says its my ram but im not sure about that. i tried cleaning out some files that i might think that can disrupting it ut still slow. Please help i made my mom get me this game and i cant even enjoy it!!!
Every time I go to load my sims it says that “A serious error has occurred, it is strongly recommended that you restart the application.” I restarted it, looked at the file itself and it STILL wont run my sims! What do I need to do?
everytime i load up sims3 and get into edit town everything is red or sometimes black. sometimes u can get on to the game and it will work fine but most of the time it runs red or black can anybody help or tell me what the problem is. thanks
My computer always turn off my sims 3 in a random time.
So I was saving my game and in the middle my computer just turned it off. I clicked the sims 3 again and when I saw the main menu, the image was white with no sims on it. I clicked it but it wont go to the town I had.
What do I do?
I moved a sim in with another, it loaded the move but it wont let me into buy/build mode. A message says I cant go into buy/build mode during a move. It also wont let me move somewhere else. I have a baby that needs a bed and everything and I cant buy anything!!
Okay, well, I have problem #4 but, when I try to exit or put the game in stand-by mode, it just stays on the game-play mode, and it won’t do anythiing. I then have to turn m computer off the bad way where you have to press and hold the power button. This also happens during saving. HELP!
On my sims 3 game i will be at the main menu and will push big play button and then the whole screen just goes black. help?!?!
i have tried this 3 times in a row and everytime i have gotten the same results. any suggestions in stopping this? just got game.
ugh! every time that i play the sims 3, about 5 minutes into the game, a blue screen pops up saying “system error” ot something like that. i’ve hread that it is because i have norton for my anti-virus protection…is there any way to fix this without getting rid, or disabling norton?????
I downloaded a house then went into it while in edit town to paint, do floors, windows, doors… but I didn’t do any furniture because I wanted the furniture from the family inventory of the sims I was going to move in. When I moved in the sims it got stuck on move mode. Whenever I try to enter build/buy mode, or edit town a message appears saying “cannot enter build/buy mode while a move is in process”. Since I can’t enter edit town I can’t move them out then in again, or change household. I’ve tried using the phone to move them out, but it says “you’re not able to move at this time”.
What do i do when i have an launcher error
i try to load my sims 3 game and ive had it for a month now and i was playing it last night and it was absoloutely fine, then this morning i tried 2 play it and when i clicked on the family i wanted to play it said : a serious error has occured we strongly reccomend that you restart the game, so i restarted the computer and tried the game a million times and it still wont work. the picture of the family or town wont come up, and i really wanna play the sims 3. I have a vista pc
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93 Ghz
RAM: 2×1GB DDR2 800Mhz
Vid: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512mb
HDD: Western Digital smth, smth can’t remember sata 1, 500gb 7200rpm, etc, etc.
I have all the necessary programs to run Sims 3. I have been playing it with no problem until now. I just finished my house I just built. I paused the live mode and went to make dinner. When I came back my screen saver was on, so I moved the mouse and the game came back except the picture. I can see the main user interface, but thats it, I can’t see my sims, my house or the town. I’ve tried everything. I can start a new game with no problems, but I can’t get the house I built it took me 3 days to make it perfect. what can I do?
I recently had a saved game on sims 3. Every time i try 2 load that file up it says (A serious error has occurred while loading “Sunset Valley 01.sims3″. It is strongly recommended that you restart the application.) ….What does this mean?? what am i suppose to do? Quiting and restarting clearly isnt working! i cant lose this file and start all over again it’ll kill me! PLEASE HELP!
hi, i’m having a simular problem to no 6, but my game was fine before then, it did freeze up now and then in create a sim, but that doesn’t really both me so much at the moment i was on a mission where you had to figure out the colour coder me at the moment, i as in egypt, in the expantion pack, and was in the middle of a mission where you had to solve the colour code and i saved it and turned off my computer, now it says A system error has occurred and to restart applicaation, so i exited out of the game and tryed again, still the same, then i tryed to restart my computer and do it again and it still didn’t work so i tried doing MrKMG — June 21, 2009 @ 7:28 am
I found a problem and solution incase anyone else runs into this.
Problem:
Computer Crashes/Battery Dies/etc while your game is saving. The next time you try to load The Sims 3 the game crashes on the initial load screen before it starts to say all the silly things like “Unloading Loading Screens”.
Solution: First go to your documents folder.
*Mac: Go to your home folder(Shift + Apple + H). Browse to Documents
*Windows: Go to your “My Documents” folder.
Then browse to Eletronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves/ and delete the save of whatever game you were in when the crash occurred. DO NOT DELETE the backup file. Then rename the Backup file by deleting the “.backup” portion of the filename. All should work now but you will lose everything up to your last save point.
so i tried deleting my file saying the name of my town and renamed the backup one but now it has a pick of any town, and when you move the cursor over it it says” ” cannot load this saved game, may have been saved with expansion pack that is no longer present..WHAT DO I DO (ps i bought my game off ebs, so its not a pirate and is upto date ith all patches, i do have downloaded content on there but that is from the website and i never have had any pervious problems untill recently)
Hy all! I have a big disturbing problem! i installed sims 3 and sims 3 w.a … i’ve update them both … sims 3 to v. 1.8.25 and w.a to v. 2.3.33. and crack w.a …. i launch the game from TS3EP01 (crack w.a) and everything is just fine, but when i want to create a sim and click ”LOOKS” i get a black image and need to restart my computer…. i tried fixing the problem like it says in the solutions to problem #2 and problem #4, but it had no effect at all … SO PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME!!! THANKS!!! Aaaaa … and my specs are:
Windows XP Service Pack 3, AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ , 2.21 GHz, 1.00 Gb of RAM, ATI display adapter AGP (0×4152) , 256.0 MB Video RAM , Pixel Shader version 2.0.
PLEASE HELP!!! THANKS!!!!!!
sometimes when i go to save my progress, while saving it says: “An unexpected error has occured, Error 16″ is what it says, i need help idk what that means. please help.
Sometimes when my game freezes, but some animations are still going, like the leaves on trees moving, if i minimize the screen, and click back after a second, the game works again; sometimes not. I don’t know if that’s helpful. But I hope so. c:
Also, I have this weird problem where i can’t socialize with other sims; ANY other sims. I click em and get a ‘no actins available’ message. I really need help, because half the game is being able to interact with other sims! And if I click ‘visit house,’ my sim will go to the house and ring the doorbell, but no one EVER answers. Everythinglse but those two things is fine; but I need help pretty badly.
when i start the game and all of the introductions, the EA intro, the Sims 3 intro, have past and the Sims 3 loading screen comes out it doesn’t do anything. It doesn’t load, it doesn’t freeze it just stays there. What can i do to fix that?
Actually, now my sims interact, but they can only be mean; and the house problem still exists. I’ve heaof this error, but I don’t know what to do about it, and I’m not sure where to find my specs.
My sim just moved in with her Husband and now it keeps saying “Can’t Enter Build/Buy Mode while Move is in Process” And its already been 2 weeks! what do I do ?
Mine freezes randomly, and I have yet to try uninstalling our AVG anti virus program. My question is, wouldn’t uninstalling AVG make my computer be at risk for viruses? What can I do about that, because the AVG may be the problem.
I tried to run Sims 3 and sometimes it freezes and sometimes just restarts comuter and before i udated my drivers the game freezed and the sound was still laying like 8-10 seconds and then some stirpes came to the screen.Now i have udated all my drivers uninstalled sims 3 few times and installed again with all patches but nothing new. Came freezes and i have to restart my comuter.But i can play about 1-2 hour now before i could play only few minutes.
I tried to run Sims 3 and sometimes it freezes and sometimes just restarts comuter and before i udated my drivers the game freezed and the sound was still laying like 8-10 seconds and then some stirpes came to the screen.Now i have udated all my drivers uninstalled sims 3 few times and installed again with all patches but nothing new. Came freezes and i have to restart my comuter.But i can play about 1-2 hour now before i could play only few minutes.Im running windows vista 32 bit with intel dual-core E5300 2.6 GHz and i have 2gb of ram and ati radeon 4570 video card.
hi every time i get on sims 3 the preview and every thing would come on but ounce i get to the loading screen it just automaticaly shut off and ive uninstalled it and reinstalled it and ir does the same thing what should i do
hey..:)
i bought the sim 3 last year. Didnt use it as much. Only a week ago i started to play it again, but when i wanted to click into an new game in an other village, it frooze up and my computer turned off and on itself!! Then a little box appears and says error and would you like to send error to be fixed.And after it goes on to the net and something comes up saying Blue Sreen Error. I followed the instructions and downloaded an virus to scan on my computer for any scans. But the game still freezes. Now it wont even load into any game, just keeps freezing!! what should i do?? :O
Sims 3 Error Cannot Start the Process while the game is running even though the game is not running. I restart my computer and try again but when I go into the Sims3 Launcher and press play the game says its not responding, I close and try again but then the error message shows up. My computer is easily with in the system requirments for the game and I’ve actually been playing the game all the time since it came out. This error has shown up only after the latest update.
So my sims 3 has been crashing suddenly when i click on create a pool or build a pool. So i am unable to get into that. If that isnt the worse it now shows blue flat squares in the town mode, where the houses and my house is suppose to be you could see the people but no house. jus a flat blue shape. Now it wont even start. the launcher wouldn’t start and then it starts after a very long time and when you press the play button it shows a blue screen with the emerald in the middle then after a long pause it shows a black screen forever then nothing happens….PLEASE HELP I LOVE THIS GAME. i could just uninstall but i dont want to loose what i did previous to these problems.
I installed the sims 3 and when I launch it, I get a black screen for a brief moment, then nothing happens after that.
it is a dell dimension desktop
geforce 8500 video card (pci) with 1 gb of ram on it
2 GB of RAM
2.6 GHz processor
Windows XP
Mine sez error occured i tryed to install world adventures but it wudnt work so i unistalled the sims 3 now it wont reinstall HELP!!!!!!!
I’ve tried to move my family a ton of times, its a family of 5. They’re all at home. I keep exiting out of the game and trying again it just wont work. it stays on the processing screen when I go to move. I’ve even restarted my computer twice.
The sims 3 is freezing shortly every half second
“we are unable to verify that your disc is a valid copy of sims 3. please contact customer service.”-this is the error i get. i downloaded this game using razor 1911 torrent. i mounted the image file using daemon tools. what should i do to play the game…
Help me!! I can’t figure out how to bring my needs panel back up and i have tried everything and i cant find any help..I’ve tried restarting my computer and every key on my keyboard hoping to bring it back up..Am I missing something? Because I have tried updating too, hoping that maybe it would bring it back up..Please, if anyone has any help it would be soo nice.
The font on my Sims3 wont even show up.. it appears as black boxes… and then in my sim house there’s no light… help!
when i download stuff like mods are custom things into the sims3,when i go to cretae a sim it freezes and the screen turns black and everytime i trie to fix it i can’t fix it.i even installed the monkey face thingy and i finally installed riverview but wen i go to play riverview it freezez up.i don’t even know what a video card is nor how to buy it or use it.also there is more problems.WAY MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i uninstall sims3 world adventures now it wont reinstall i get a file e/caches/china.object cache error data. error
data cyclic redundancy check . what can i do to fix that .
what about the loading error (blue famaily screan,blue house screan please help ive been useing this fam forever and its sad to c it go
Hi ever since i started playing my sims 3 game it has been soo slow i can hardly play and now ive just given up playing it can some one tell me maybe how to fix it if you know? please
theocrulz@hotmail.com
oh and i not sure how or where to check my system requirements but i know i have a nvidia geforce go 7400 video card or something because theres a sticker on my laptop
I have problem nummber #2 I tried all of the solutions, but nothing worked. when ever I try to build or place something, it crashes to desktop. My graphics card is updated and I tried with my Avast anti virus software off.
scrufy1993@hotmail.com
Yeah well it says .NET Framework initialization error when I try to play. I’m getting super annoyed cuz it was b-day present and im a HUGE sim fan but it wont play! WAAAAAAAAAA! HELP
Same problem as Cara.. “I’ve installed sims 3 fine without any problems, however, when I go to game launch and click the play button to run the game, the screen goes black and then returns to desktop as if the game was never loaded.” It also seems to take a while to actually get up to the screen to click “play.” I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled, got rid of Awesome Mod since that stupid thing kept crashing the game when messages popped up saying I need to update, and many other things. Nothing has worked. At all..
logizomechanophobia@hotmail.com
Same problem as Cara.. “I’ve installed sims 3 fine without any problems, however, when I go to game launch and click the play button to run the game, the screen goes black and then returns to desktop as if the game was never loaded.” It also seems to take a while to actually get up to the screen to click “play.” I’ve uninstalled, reinstalled, got rid of Awesome Mod since that stupid thing kept crashing the game when messages popped up saying I need to update, and many other things. Nothing has worked. At all..
logizomechanophobia@hotmail.com
my brother change some of the Graphic setting on the game, now whenever we try to change a sims weight the body disconnects.
Does anyone know how to fix this?
please e-mail me if you can help.
aelsiaa@hotmail.com
sims 3 problems
before i jused to have the problem where your computer just crashes all the time. then i tryed to update my driver. now i have a totaly different problem, i open the sims 3 on my desk top then the sims launcher comes up i then press the play button, the window ( wich is just a black screen) comes up for about 3 seconds and then just vcloses down and nothing happens. i tryed re installing the game . what should i do?? please help.
cecilie
Problem #9
Game crashes after the intro video. 4th attempt.
Hi I only have problems with the black screen now since I did the latest update and decided to download from the store other wise it was working perfect tryed uninstall and reinstall heaps of times with no luck might go back to playing sims 2.
With my sims I press the play button and the screeen goes black, waits 5 seconds and then goes away and back to my desktop. What does this meean?
PLEASE, I NEED HELP UNINSTALLING MY SIMS3 AND RE-INSTALLING IT . MY LAUNCHER ALSO WONT WORK. HELP PLEASE, I WANT TO PLAY AGAIN- NO ONE ELSES ADVICE HELPED!!
Hi, my Sims 3 and all my Sims 2 are all having blue on the screen whenever i am building my house. I have a Windows Vista HP Laptop and a Windows XP. It does the same thing on both. Help?
Im having problems with problem No.7, The game screen just turns black as if it was turned off. this happens every 10-30 minuutes. making it impossible to play the game.
PLEASE HELP ME! I tried to install sims 3 world adventures, but after several minutes a message appeared saying ‘D:/Caches/China.objectCache Error:Data error (cyclic redundancy check)”
What can i do for it? Please help me!!
it freezez when i am in create a sim. also, there are black lines across the screen when moving the camera or zooming in.ii downloaded some mods and custom stuff and when i go play the game it it freezez and i have to restart it every time it happens.
hey, it says that theres been a error while loading and this is the 5th time it happens and im FLIPPIN out so, what can i do??
hi, i keep having the same error, ever since i went from vista to windows 7. i’ve alredy played sims 3 in my laptop, with windows Vista..but when i got windows 7, and tried to install, it gives me the error “the application failed to initialze propely oxc000005″ when i run the autorun.exe. sometimes it doesnt show up anything…
please help!
thanks*
Hey I’ve got a problem that the sims 3 will work perfectly until I go to buy something, as soon as I place the item down in the house the application will close. I’ve put it into window mode now but the same problem keeps happening. I’ve had it before on this pc and it never had this problem.
my problem is the PROBLEM #1…
this is my specs…
AMD athlon processor LE-1640
2.71 GHz, 2.00GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT, 1GB, DDR2
pls help me…
I have been playing sims 3 and world adventure for a long time since it came out. It played fine until i removed some custom contents and deleted caches now i have blue squares for lots. How can i fix this? I have already tried my backup copy that doesnt help same problem in that. I havent used any patches or updates
Now I’m getting a bit worried. There has been many complaints like the one I have. First of all the Sims3 start up message won’t come up all together. It’s like it is coming in pieces. Just as I think the last little circle with the start button is about to appear, it says that this process cannot happen. Then when I try to press the “x” in the right corner, it just freezes my computer. I also heard that possibly having Sims2 still on your computer would effect it, so I deleted all of those files. It is still doing it. First it was the EA down loader, now it won’t even start!!!
when i open the sims3 and i press play to get in it. i tcomes up with an error. i no most errors a coused by downlodeing stuff ppl made but i havent i only downlode stuff sims made and that i bought but stell i have uninstall and reinstalled but its doing it agean i dont no if it buy mode on the game maybe its that so if you no how to fix it please tell me
i updated my VIDEO CARD.. but still.. the message appears again.. T_T… pls help me.. my problem is #1
hey . . . I have just bought the sims 3 reloaded and when i try to build something or to buy it suddenly stops but the mouse is still moving and the music works too
. And when i try to exit or to press a button it doesn’t work 
. I don’t have Norton anti-virus but I have AVG and it’s stopped and I don’t know what to do 
. Please HELP! :X
Microsoft windows XP Media center edition Version 2002 service pack 2
I recently bought The Sims 3. I was excited for so long and even held off on it during a busy week for me, only to end up heartbroken. The game has MAJOR lagging issues. It lags all the times I’ve attempted to play. It also shuts off randomly so I can’t ever even play. I haven’t once. I have only created a family (farthest I’ve gotten until it crashed, again after like an hour customizing) I’ve heard it may be a video/ graphic card thing. May you please give me some advice. It’ll be great. Thank you.
My problem is that everytime I hit the play button my computer will restart. It never makes it to the beginning credits, always crashes literally right after I hit “play”.
The laughncher comes up and says welcome,And i press play. Ablack screen comes up as if its loading and it just completely disapeares!!! I just got it for my b-day 2
Please help.
when attempting to ope sims 3 world adventures it says there was an error on startup please see log for more details i dont want to uninstall my game or anything nor do i want anything bad to happen to my computer what should i d?
my family just moved into another house and stuff but theyve already moved and it wont let me go to build or buy mode it says it can’t be done because they are still moving but they arent
I did the requirements test and it all past ok, but still i get a black screen when i click on play. any advice please
thankyou
I recently had to reinstall Sims 3 after upgrading my computer (about 2 weeks ago). It installed just fine and I’ve had no problems since playing it (no freezes, errors, anything). However I decided to download some CC (custom content) today and when I went in to play it started fine. Then, when I tried to save (after 30 min or so), it gave me an “ERROR 12″ could not save, etc. I exited the game and restarted — it didn’t work. Instead, the game won’t even show up. I’m getting a black screen altogether. WTH!
I cant even get The Sims3 to run. I put the disc in and its like it wont read it, nothing happens. I go to my computer and click on Drive D:/ and it says insert disc, when it is inserted. I dont know what to do, I know its not the game because this is my 3rd copy of the game. Its my computer! Someone please help me! I have a 7 month old and this is my only break (My husband thinks im doing school work) So if you can help I will greatly appreciate!
when i install sims 3 words of adventures the error comes “sims 3 update error”
so what can i do???
plzzz reply
Hi, when i load the sims 3 game and when it brings me to the main menu and i either try to click on a family i already have or if i want to make a new one it says ” There is a sirous error please retry this application” i did and i tryed everything and i even unstalled it and restalled and i don’t know what to do and i really want to play me game!
When i load my sims 3 and it works perfectly fine untill i go to the main menu and when i want to click on a family i have already made or if i want to make a new one it says “A seirous erro has accrured please try this application again” and so i tryed and tryed and the same thing pops up i even tryied to unstall it and then reinstall it and the same problem happens please help!!
I’m with Adam and Ashlyn and Zoe i have the same problem and if you know what to do please help!!!
How do you get on to this window’s mode? I have a window’s and it sucks so i need some help…… please
My Sims keeps on crashing…..
My Specs:
Windows 7
AMD Dual Core 3800+ OC’D to 2.53Ghz
3 Gb of ram
EVGA GeForce 9500GT 1 Gb edition Driver 196.34(BETA)
i meant sims 3 above
Windows 7
AMD Dual Core 3800+ OC’D to 2.53Ghz
3 Gb of ram
EVGA GeForce 9500GT 1 Gb edition Driver 196.34(BETA)
Does anyone answer your questions or do you wait…. for nothing
hello
after installing about a hundred or more items from thesimsrecourses.com it crashes when i’m in the buy mode. no errors, no warnings, the game just quits like that and returns to windows. first i thought it was becouse i downloaded to much stuff, so i deleted almost 50% of it. Still no change.
anyone else with this problem or even better…. anyone with a solution?
greetings…. a frustrated and desparate sims 3 player
ps. the game and everything in it are downloaded… so yeah i’m playing an illigal version..
any comments on that…. they shouldnt have to make this game so friggin expensive!!! 55 euros are u kiddin me??
hi i came back off holiday and had problems saving usually i do save as but that wasnt working then my sims got stuck but the bed so i just exited the game. then i install the lastest patch and that made my bas game sims 3 incompatible so i had to uninstall and reinstall. the game loads fine but when i try to load the game i couldnt save properly i get a error message. have to lost this game? can any1 help thanx
hi i came back off holiday and had problems saving usually i do save as but that wasnt working then my sims got stuck buy the bed so i just exited the game. then i install the lastest patch and that made my bas game sims 3 incompatible so i had to uninstall and reinstall. the game loads fine but when i try to load the game i couldnt save properly i get a error message. have to lost this game? can any1 help thanx
Application Start Up Failed… sometimes the sims 3 comes on, and some times it doesn’t come on. And I tried to save it yesterday.. but it would not let me save it
Here’s some information about my apple mac by the way… Thanks :/
3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
1920 x 1080 resolution
4GB memory
500GB hard drive1
8x double-layer SuperDrive
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics
Hi my problem is when i alt tab out of the game the game crashs
here are my system specs
2.00ghz Intel core duo cpu
ram:2gb
200gb hard drive
NVIDIA GeForce 8400m gt graphics
My saved Sims will not show up in the load game mode. Their data is still in my saved list in my documents, but in the game they will not show up. Only 2 will.
My Sims 3 keeps on crashing help me guys and i will pay a price too!
sims 3 used to work perfectly fine but now whenever i hit the play button in the game launcher it says
“a system error has occuered” and then the game launcher freezes
i didnt change anyting about my computer this just started randomly happening
Afcourse evryone wants to post his/hers problems about the game. but most of it comes down to the same. nice to read everybody’s complains every time but is there also somebody here who has an answer????? or wil my mail inbox will be filled with mails from this website with nothing but complains while i was hoping and waiting for a solution????? So if someone has a technologic brain with maybe a answer to the problem. PLEASE STEP UP
thank you
my sims was just working yesterday. Now everytime I try to load it, a pop up shows up and say service intialization failed.
when i try installing the sims 3 on my laptop, the box with hte blue rectangles come up but it stops and says theres an error and so weird object like sunset valley cant upload and it just wont go and then i click retry and it does it again
My Sims3 update has gone bonkers,
when i go onto Sims Launcher it says “error there has been a problem with your update see log for more details” what do I do????? Thanks x
The game shows a black screen when launched and then just exits.
Apparently I can’t run the setup because it’s a 16-bit applicated and I have Windows 7 64-bit. Is there a workaround so I can play the game?
The weirdest thing just happened. The game froze after hours of play and unfortunately I saved over the last backup. Then I clicked on edit town and saved again under a different name. When the game re-opened, half the Sim family were frozen and the other went on living. The frozen ones died behind the scene but on the screen remined frozen and intact. HELP! Besides being very frustrating it was actually quite distressing …….
My Sims game installed fine, then i went to play it and it restarts my computer…and my computer meets all the requirements…..any ideas what’s wrong?
I tried to move my sim to a new location. When I chose my lot and accepted the move the game was processing for over an hour. Why isn’t this working?
The sims 3
I have the same problem as the person above. My sim family moved house and it wont let me access build/buy mode as it says that i am still in the process of moving but i have left the game run for days and it still hasnt changed…help!
ps it also wont let me interact with he sims so all of my children have been taken away by the social worker as they were lonely
all my video cards are up to date and i don’t have any of those anti viruses stuff so why does problem 4 occur??
Everybody thinks its their computers fault but its actually EA Games that are responsible for the crashes. This game was released prematurely with major problems. By filing a complaint to EA Games at the better business bureau website we can put an end to these crashes. Go to the website (www.bbb.org/)type in your zipcode, then click For Consumers (check out a business or charity), then under Phone, URL, Email (type in the website http://www.ea.com or search the company name (Electronic Arts,Inc) and file a complaint.
I don’t know if any of you had this problem, but everytime I try to play the game it just says: “ERROR, the installation is incomplete and “the sims 3tm” cannot run. Please reinstall and try again. wel i did reinstall the game but i didnt make any progres with this. it just wont start.
My sims 3 game didn’t always do this, but it has been getting worse. I’ll start playing and everything is fine, the graphics the speed its all perfect, but then about 3 or 4 minutes in, it gets extremely slow, It would take about 2 minutes for the sim to get off their chair. It stays like that for almost ten minutes so I just have to sit there, I barely have any playing time anymore. It does that throughout the whole game, 2 min play, ten min wait, 2 min play, 10 min wait, it’s horrible. Is there a way for it to work fine the whole time I play???
my game is still running, It won’t let me save!! I get an error 15?? Why does this happen?? I think it was error 16 before, but it was the same thing. I lost my game the first time, and I don’t want to again!! I can’t quit without saving, that will be awful to lose everything i’ve done. I’m using a imac. Please some help!!!
there’s an error occured when im done installing the sims 3.when i hit the play button the registration code comes again and again then it will just say it couldnt connect to the internet
Every time after about 3 minutes it freezes for a few seconds through the game and it goes really dark and makes the game reallyy hard to play plz helpppp
“important message there is a problem connecting to the server. please ensure your connection is active.if the problem persists try again later”
this error message comes out everytime i hit the play button since i installed the sims 3
Hi, when my the sims 3 game starts, i choose sunset valley and it start loading, it freezes and i return to my desktop screen! Can someone help me?
My specs:
Windows 7
Intel Core 2 Duo
500 gb HD
4 gb RAM
-New problem-
Two of my sims wont react to anymore. They are stuck in their last interaction. When I clicked the action to end it, the cross appeared over it, but they wouldn’t stop. They won’t stop for another action needed, not even when they are desperate for a shower.
Help?
Random Crashes –
I was having a LOT of random Crashes with Sims 3 after installing some sim3 packages (from their store) and after installing High-End Loft stuff. I see that there are a lot of people having these problems and I wanted to kinda relay what I did that completely and 100% fixed the problem.
Symptoms: System was crashing 5-10 mins after starting the game (like clockwork!!), saves were hanging, crashing, and/or erroring out with errors 10, 11, 12, and some others that I didn’t keep record of, Sims were hanging, were not performing tasks, standing at beds not moving, couldn’t remove the “Sleep” queue without using the resetsim cheat.
Cause: Sims 3 is a memory hog especially when you add in a bunch of downloads, and the expansion packs. Thats the dumbed down version, the tech cause is, Sims 3 by itself comes drastically close to the 2 GB memory limit that is defined in the sims 3 executable headers. Therefor when a mod is installed or a bunch of downloads, the Sims 3 will reach its maximum memory limit and Windows will close the application or prevent it from occupying more memory (depending on the method in which the game attempts to allocate the memory) This is VERY common on 64 bit machines because they usually have tons of memory, and the Sims 3 doesn’t have to fight with the OS for memory. Under usual circumstances on a 3 GB machine with a 32 bit OS, the memory cap is 4 GB, in such case, that 4GB cap is also caped for Video Memory as well. So those with 512MB or 1GB Video memory are only allowed 3GB of memory on a 32 bit OS, which means that windows will usually occupy 1/3 of that, sims will attempt to occupy the rest, keeping it usually under that cap. But I have a PC with 12 GB of ram (64 bit of course) and 2 GB of video memory, so Sims quickly trys to occupy upwards of 5-6 GB of memory. This causes issues when the header of the executable is telling Windows “Don’t allow me to use more than 2 GB of memory”. So when it happens, you get everything from Freezing Sims, Frozen/stuck Action Queues, Currupt Saves, Crash to Desktop from playing and saving, Save errors, and save hangups (where it sits on the save screen indefinitely).
Associated Log-file codes resulting from crash to desktop –
ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address {SOME RANDOM HEX}
address: {SOME RANDOM HEX} “{GAMEPATH}\The Sims 3 High-End Loft Stuff\Game\Bin\TS3SP01.exe”:{SOME RANDOM HEX}:{SOME RANDOM HEX}
– If your not having issues with other graphically demanding games, and you get this log-file error (and your pc is up to specs) then the “ACCESS_VIOLATION” report is a dead giveaway!
Solution!!!
Download CFF Explorer (free from http://download.cnet.com/CFF-Explorer/3000-2383_4-10431156.html)
Modify the header of the executable for the base game (ts3.exe), High End Loft Stuff, and World of Adventures if you have them by ticking the box that allows it to use more than 2 GB of memory, save the binary, but back up your old one (or your patches won’t work again!!!) and play and enjoy.
Again I was having habitual crashes, investigated the problem with a log viewer and found that it was windows terminating the application because of the memory violations.. Upon closer inspection I found that it was doing this every time it reached 2,049 MB of memory (1mb more than 2gb). After doing this to my pc I haven’t experience one crash in over 3 weeks, all saves have been successful.
Before anyone jumps right in and starts editing exe’s, please make sure of the following:
1. Your PC & Video Card is up to specs
2. You don’t have any problems with other games like Oblivion, Fallout 3, Mass Effect (and ME2), Dragon Age and other Graphically demanding games.
3. Your PC is NOT overheating (try running it with the cover off
4. Your game itself is broken and doing something its not supposed to (try running the FIXALL cheat with CTL+SHIFT-V
Just remember — BACK UP YOUR EXE!
Because I know not everyone’s pc is the same, I’ll post some of my specs here:
CPU0: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
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CPU1: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU2: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU3: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU4: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU5: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU6: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
CPU7: AMD Opturon 64 X4 Quad Core Processor 5200+ 2.8Ghz
{yes, running dual quad cores
MEM: 12 GB DDR3 CRC MULTI-CHANNEL
Video: NVidia GeForce 8500 GT SLI (2GB VRAM)
OS: Windows Vista (x64) Platinum
— OS Config: Running User Activation (UAC) Protection as well as Execution Prevention
I am having the same problem as Cara (posted a year ago) I was playing just fine, and progressing greatly in game. Today I wake up, and load the game and it just closes after the intro. Like I never loaded it. I’ve tried everything so far, and still nothing. Any progress on this problem after so long? I run Windows 7 X64.
Everytime I try to push play on the Sims 3 game, a box shows up saying,”core_launch_failure” What is the problem?
Sometimes the game craches because some of the downloads does not go with the updates
(bad english, sorry)
Ok, i got the Sims 3 World Adventures just 3 days ago and Sims 3 worked fine before i got the World Adventures and it worked fine when i first got it too, but now it’ll load and i can go to load my world and i click it and it load like in a sec and then goes black and says ” A serious error has occurred we recommend restarting this application”!! It’s so annoying i already uninstalled and reinstalled the game. And i’ve had the Sims 3 game since like October so i hope it isn’t my Specs because World Adventures worked just fine when i got it too till now. but here’s what i do know about my specs
I have a Dell notebook
Intel Core Duo Processor 2.20 GHz
Windows 7
64 Bit Operating System
3.00 GB of RAM
Model is Inspiron 1545
so i uploaded the sims 3 and didnt have enough memory to actually play it. so i deleted everything i could find that had to do with the game. i then ended up losing the game and buying a new one once i took my mac to the mac store and opening up enough memory. i uploaded the game and right before i pick the town and it pretty much tells me it cant tell if its a real copy. what do i do?
Came seems to consistently crash if you answer your cell phone while in the Underground Library quest in Egypt. Sim just gets stuck with the phone up to their ear.
In refrence to my comment here I thought that I would add that I have still be operating with 0 crashes, I have even had the game run for 3 days strait with no issues other than bad memory management by the devs (slow and laggy after the 2nd day running) so I can verify that the fix is working on my rig.
I have however come across a new issue in World of Adventures, that is, if for some reason you save a house/structure with WoA items in it (gems, Sim Fu Practice Dummies, Board breaking blocks, snake charming baskets, etc) and buy the house before you visit any world associated with the item(s) that you have in the saved house, your sims are therein restricted from entering the vacation worlds — You can visit, you, but your sims will vanish, leaving you controless over the game and become an observer only. Because I don’t have the source to the Sim’s binaries, there is no way, at my skill level that I can fix this error, so I await for EA to release a patch to address the issue.
Aye i recintly bought the sims 3 and installed it on my laptop but for some reasom my laptop turned of in the middle int he installation now.. when i put my cd back and try to uninstall it.. for some reason its still there’ everytime i try to Reinstall it it keeps saying Erro or please uninstall it.. iv tryed everything and im about to break my laptop please can anyone help me with this stupid issue’ ?
Hello
My sister have been playing the sims 3 for a while now, with no issues. Recently she bought
two expansion packs called “Destination adventure” and “design and hi-tech stuff”. The thing
is that when she installed them, it worked perfectly fine, after the computer asking to do two
updates with the sims 3. She accepted the 1st one, but the second one failed. She ignored that and continued playing.
After about one day, the game crashed, an so did the computer. Now the computer show Bsod all the time when booted up,
and there are white stripes all over the screen. It must have something to do with the graphics. The computer’s graphic
card is ATI radeon sapphire Hd 3870.
Thanks, Edvin
Edvin, that sounds like your graphics card is now pushing daisies — its dead. Its time to check to see if there is a warranty or start thinking about a replacement. That error you saw pop up was most likely the NVidia’s control panel telling you your GPU was overheating or performing incorrectly. Sadly, when a GPU (graphics card) goes out like that, it is rather quick and messy.
I perform Preventative Maintenance on all of the PC’s in my house about once a week. It consists of opening the cases, powering the pc on, checking that all fans are functioning properly, and blowing out the pc (after powering down) with inert canned air. Doing this once per week or even once every 2 weeks will extend the life of your pc and components by at least a year. I have a pc that still works with all original components (minus upgraded memory, cpu, and hard drives) that I built in 2001
Thanks for the advices, Mike.
I will investigate this a bit more and eventually I will replace my graphics card.
Thank you, Edvin
The problem I’m having are the “Error 12 & 13″. They occur during saving. I’ve read up on it, and they say to delete your save and use your backup save but it only works about 2% or less of the time. I save often, but it still does it. Also, it randomly crashes every now and then. According to Canyourunit.com my computer bar is all the way to the top. So I exceed the minimum requirements by plenty. I have Trend Micro Internet Security, and I haven’t known it to interfere with the Sims, but I could be wrong. Any suggestions? By the way, very nice post. Thanks for all your help.