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#1 Old 11th Jan 2021 at 5:40 PM

This user has the following games installed:

Sims 3, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life, Island Paradise, Into the Future
CAS crashes: fresh install, system specs met, clear cache, no CC/MODS. Lost!?
Hi guys,

not sure if I'll get much response here since TS3 is long had its day, but I'm still on TS3 as I didn't like TS4 very much. I've been using this site around a decade but lost my login so using a baby account now lol.

So I recently got a "new" laptop. Don't get me wrong, it's still a potato, but far better than what I was using before. Last night I thought I'd finally get round to putting TS3 onto it. Yeaaahhhhh, it's not playing ball. I get as far as generating the world without issues, enter CAS and after aabout 5mins in CAS the whole thing freezes/crashes. All I can do it ctrl/alt/del and force close it via the task manager.

Already done the following:
  • Tried base game only
    Fresh install yesterday
    Clear Cache
    No CC
    No mods


This potato laptop is running at:
Intel Core i5-2450M - NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M - 8GB RAM
I did read that some NVIDIA graphics cards are unsupported, but it seems mine should work.

For reference my last laptop was a total disgrace at only:
Intel® Pentium® 2020M processor - Intel® HD Graphics (memory amount : up to 1,981 MB shared memory) - 8GB RAM total
Even that thing ran this game with all packs active without any issues, for the best part of 8 years.

Any help would be appreciated here, as I really have no idea why this would happen. Everything says it should be working, but it just isn't.
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