Crash To Desktop

[HappyPhantom]

Hello everyone,
So I have had no problems with Sims 3, World Adventures or High End Loft Stuff. I install Ambitions, create a Sim and the moment I move them into their house, the game crashes to desktop. No error, no warning.. just poof.. desktop. My drivers are completely up to date and so is the game. I don't know what else to do. I can play every other game in the world just fine, just all of a sudden I can't play Ambitions?

Thanks so much for any help, I greatly appreciate it.

[chrisjw37]

(01-06-2010 09:45 PM)HappyPhantom link Wrote:Hello everyone,
So I have had no problems with Sims 3, World Adventures or High End Loft Stuff. I install Ambitions, create a Sim and the moment I move them into their house, the game crashes to desktop. No error, no warning.. just poof.. desktop. My drivers are completely up to date and so is the game. I don't know what else to do. I can play every other game in the world just fine, just all of a sudden I can't play Ambitions?

Thanks so much for any help, I greatly appreciate it.

I had the same issue, tried lots of bodges, none did anything BUT this works:

I quote 'Tim' - can't find his post, but the mans a frickin genius.

dateline= Wrote:I solved my crashing to the desktop and this is how I did it!

After much trial and error I found that Sims3 wasn't crashing to the desktop, Windows was CLOSING it. I installed a memory monitoring program and a mini DUMP viewer. Using these 2 programs I was able to find the problem. I had all the symptoms like slow saving game, Running slow and many more.

After viewing the Dump file I found I was getting a 0xC0000005 Access Violation error which suggest maybe bad memory. But my memory is good. Further research led me to DEP (Microsoft's Data execution prevention). DON'T TURN IT OFF! I did this and big mistake!!! Go into the setting and turn it on for all programs except the ones that you can add to the list and add TS3.EXE to it.

I have Windows XP SP2. Vista and Windows 7 may be slightly different.

To access this goto (Start - Settings - Control panel) and run System. Click on the Advance tab and click on the Settings button for Performance. Click the TAB for Data execution prevention and click the option to (Turn on DEP for all programs and services except those I select and add TS3.EXE to the list and ok it and reboot.

Hopefully this will fix your problem like it did for me.

Now my game is fast and stable.

You may have to add other programs to this list that you use also. Because this turns on DEP for ALL programs and not just for Windows.

Thanks Tim  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}  {clap}

Chris