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#1 Old 27th May 2015 at 10:26 PM

This user has the following games installed:

Sims 3, World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Showtime, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise
Default !! HELP !! Game keeps crashing
Hi everyone!

I've read through every post I could find about crashes, so I really hope some of you can help. I don't know what else to try...

I've played sims 3 on my win 8, then upgraded to win 8.1 and couldn't play it any more. After some trying to fix it, I gave up and decided for a dual boot with win 7 being used only for the sims.

First, the hardware:
Win 7 64bit
8 GB RAM
Intel i7 4702MQ
NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M

So far I found out it doesn't matter if I only play the base game or also install expansions, it keeps crashing after a couple of minutes. I don't have any CC.


What I tried so far:

- re-installed a couple of times
- DEP (all .exe files, also those from the expansions)
- run as administrator
- compatibility win xp sp2
- disable visual themes
- disable desktop compositions
- disable display scaling on high DPI settings
- changed graphic settings in game to very low
- updated everything with Patch Downloader
- used 4gb Patch again on every .exe file to give more RAM
- changed settings from NVIDIA control panel to use high performance for sims
- added the GeForce GT 740M to GraphicsCards.sgr and changed GrapicsRules.sgr (now it is recognized by the game)
- installed DirectX 9, have 10 installed too
- start without Launcher

Here's what the Crash Log Analyzer tells me:
[UNKNOWN] 27.05.2015 22:40:33
OS Version: 5.1.2600
TS3 Path: E:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Die Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe
TS3 Version: 0.2.0.209
Installed RAM: 7,89 GiB
TS3 Free VM: 2,46 GiB / 4,00 GiB
Crash Type: ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x00000000
Crash Address: 0x00ed83cd "E:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Die Sims 3\Game\Bin\TS3W.exe":0x0001:0x00ad73cd


If someone has an idea about what else I could try, please let me know! Any advice appreciated!!

Thanks
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