Why does my sims 3 game unexpectedly stop working leaving me to restart it over and over?

Answer 1

First off, EA's software developers for this game do not test their game before they release it to the public. When Maxis had the rights and developed the first Sims game, there were no problems at all. If you noticed in your game launcher, The Sims 3 always has an update/patch pretty much after every new game is released. This means they had bugs they didn't catch until after they released it to the public.

I am an avid Sims fan and have played every version (TS1, TS2, TS3). I have never had any problems with any of my sims games until the 3rd one and it started with World Adventures. I had so many bugs, I simply do not play with that EP.

Sorry for the ranting, but that is the honest truth. Now for some actual problems...

Quite honestly, it could be anything from your hardware on your computer to a bug in the game itself. Here are some steps that will save you time in researching forums and stuff.

1. Check with system lab requirements (Google it) and make sure your computer is up to running the game. The Sims 3 takes everything your graphics and video drivers have to run and will max them out. Even with some gaming computers this can be the issue.

2. Make sure your computer/laptop is not getting to hot. I have a laptop and mine gets overheated all the time from playing the sims. I have an external fan I put on it that seems to help.

3. Your drivers need to be up to date so it can handle the latest patches and what not.

4. I have found that forcing V-Sync in your graphics properties seem to help the game (this will slow down your FPS, but in my research, The sims needs the frame rate slowed down because the high FPS can cause your computer to overheat). To do this you need to right-click on your desktop and click on graphics properties. I have an intel graphics card and my graphics settings is under 3d. Anyway, locate the options to turn V-sync on and make sure it is on.

5. Make sure you don't have any bad custom content. Some can cause bugs. Try running your game for a while without the custom content and see if that fixes it. If it does, than you know 2 things. A: you have some bad CC or B: All the CC plus the game is causing your graphics card to use all it's power forcing a crash. I have no idea how to determine which option is the problem.

6. If you want to take the long route, a fresh re-install always helps. Not a fan of it, but if you are out of all other options, then it might not be a bad idea.

I'm only giving this advice because I too have experienced this problem. Still haven't completely pegged what exactly is causing the problem. In all honesty, it all started after I installed Late Night. I personally think all of these problems are from EA. High end gaming computers are experiencing the same problem my laptop is. I truly hope this helps a little. If you start researching on forums, all of them will tell you it's your graphics card, blah, blah, blah....but seriously, if you have tried all the options I mentioned above, it's most likely a bug that EA has not fixed and probalby will never fix because they have incompetent people that develop and write the software for this game.