I have a magician sim and boy this game does NOT want him to perform! Twice now I've taken him to a Simfest and twice now it's crashed as he's going onstage.

I've been recording the gameplay so maybe you could check to see what happened.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9sJ0ZjKd-c The first time, and it freezes around 34:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jDpkq3TJXw This is the second time. It freezes around 21:30.

But yeah, I can't figure this out at all.

...I have no idea what that means. I even tried to look it up and didn't find anything.

Do you use mods at all? You might have something that hasn't been updated.

Try following these steps: http://modthesims.info/wiki.php?tit..._3_Game_Problem

I use a lot of mods, but my other saves don't have this problem. And this one didn't either until he went up to perform. I don't have any magician-related mods and there aren't any mods on the character himself.

Yes, even if you don't have any magician related mods you need to check your custom content. Any custom content that either doesn't match your game version or clashes with some other installed custom content can cause various problems.

Even if the problems aren't caused by CC, the first steps to solving your problem is still to follow the steps on that link I gave you earlier.

Why would this affect only this one action and none of my other saves if this was CC related? I tend to use the same stuff over and over again. It didn't even affect this one save until this action.

And if I remove all CC like that suggests, that would seriously affect my game. All the vehicles would be gone, characters would look considerably different (not him though as I said), the house would be missing most of its stuff...

Really I want to know why it's this one action on this one save with literally nothing else affected. Does the freezing in the video indicate anything specific?

"anything"
removing CC for testing purposes gives you a chance to determine if it is mod related or just another gift from developer. Otherwise you can just throw a tantrum or use some glass-ball for claivoriance.

Ofc you can always just remove Showtime-related lots and problem "solved"... in some way, well.

I don't appreciate that attitude. I'm not throwing a tantrum. I'm asking for help and explaining why I'm having difficulty with the proposed fix.

Also, I tried to run CC Cleaner, which worked ONCE before, and it refused to open again. Now it says that it's incompatable.

Could I have someone like...walk me through the steps on a personal level, like in a chat? I learn by doing, and following that list is overwhelming.

Well, as I said, I have trouble understanding that walkthrough. That's why I asked for some personal help.

It will take quite some time to get a magician up to performance level...ugh but I gotta do what I gotta do.

In the meantime...I'm not being intentionally obtuse or stubborn. I have real issues understanding things without someone showing me how to do it.

Ok took a whole season but I worked a no-CC sim to her first performance and it didn't crash, but she also wasn't invited up because she missed her performance time (who takes an hour and a half to take a shower anyway?!). Should I have her try that again to recreate it fully or was simply performing onstage enough to test? She got a review even though all she did was take her introductory bow.

I'd try to reproduce this again - particulary exactly on the lot where you encountered a problem, but it looks like CC mess.* For testing time ignore natural game flow - use testingcheatsenabled to restore sim's needs, teleport for fast trip to point etc. Just keep tce disabled while actual testing.

When you determine what's the cause it will be a time to decide if you're ready to go through 50/50 routine** or just give up this particular save.

* Showtime content is particulary fragile and has got well (I'm not sure if "well" is a good word for this) earned bad reputation by itself. It may be easily broken by some completely innocent in other circumstances mod.

There's also possibility you have some mod outdated or incompatible with Showtime.

** if other saves (if there Showtime events works fine) are working fine, maybe it will be enough to check a date of last working savefile and then temporary removing any cc file you've put into your mods' folder after this date. Less painful than standard 50/50 routine, worth a try, anyway.

Ah, then I'll have to make a new save in the same town as the main issue. Crap, I didn't think of that.

Ok so I started a new house on the same map and it crashed the SECOND I started the game. The moment the random figure and his random dog set foot in Sunset Valley, everything froze up and I had to CtlAltDel out of it. So, the issue is with the map?

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This is the only one I could find and I had to specifically search for the file name. I can't find one in my TS3 folder. There also doesn't seem to be a save for the one that crashed immediately (well I mean I never got a chance to save it) so I can't tell you anything about that.

Well, I logged them in the above videos. When I closed them via CtlAltDel, there was a message waiting for me that the game had crashed. I don't know when it actually DID. But it was the same message with the clean town. In the first one up there, there's SOME sound but no wind or other environmental effects. In the second one there's nothing but the clicking noise.

The game usually runs slow, though with the clean run it was faster (still took about ten minutes just to load though)

How do I add more RAM? And honestly that sounds like a lot, two gigs...but is it RAM or memory? You cited memory but said RAM...

And I've had Showtime for a few years and this has never happened before. But I've also never run a magician.

And with the save I tried that went kaput the moment it opened, that was a one-person house on the same map (Sunset Valley), so I can't really make the house smaller.

Yes, that's what I did. I started a fresh game, chose Sunset Valley, made a house of one person, bought him a one-bedroom house...and the second he stood in front of his new house, everything froze and crashed. I mean, he had a dog, but you said 1-2 people...

Can you explain what you mean by "low setting"?