My sims 2 game keeps crashing, with an error message explaining it needs to terminate.?

Question

I've had a look around yahoo for similar answers to this question and found very few of use to me, so, I need some help if at all possible.
I have the sims 2, with nightlife, university, bon voyage, seasons, pets and free time and have been having trouble lately.
An error message appears saying something along the lines of. "Sims 2 has crashed and needs to terminate."
My disks are in near perfect condition, and all installing went fine. I've has these games installed for around 3 months and only just got problems.
The games crash at around half an hour of use age.
I have occasionally used cheats, like motherlode, move_objects on and the boolProp TestingCheatsEnabled true cheat.
I also have quite a lot of custom content, downloaded from various sites.
I have all the latests patches.
I'm trying to avoid having to reinstall as lately I'm low on free time and don't wish to loose my custom content if at all. But, if all you can think of is to reinstall, are there any recommendations to avoid this problem I'm having later?
Also, I have plenty of memory, and I do mean plenty. And as far as I know my computer is up to the sim playing standards.
I hope someone can help.

Answer 1

That sounds like the 'Sims 2 crashing all of a sudden after installing expansion packs' issue that has been reported here by some people. Try the following:



1. Install The Sims 2 official updates:

http://thesims2.ea.com/update/

(you want the patch for the main game and all the relevant ones for the expansion packs you have installed)



2. Install the latest version of DirectX:

DirectX 9.26.1590 (March 2009)

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/DirectX-9.0c-Redistributable.shtml



3. Update your video card drivers:

(download them from NVIDIA/ATI/Intel - whichever is the relevant manufacturer of your graphics card chipset)

NVIDIA http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?

ATI http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Intel http://downloadcenter.intel.com



[To find out what graphics card you have: right-click My Computer --> Properties --> Hardware --> Device Manager --> expand Display adapters --> (your video card will be listed here, e.g., ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT)

or use PC Wizard 2008:

http://cpuid.com/pcwizard.php ]

Answer 2

I don't think you want to here this but you might have to unistall some custom content because that's happened to mine. When you've unistalled it reinstall it again it should be fine.

Maybe you have to re-install all your game play CDs again. The same problem started on my sisters computer and we haven't found a way to get rid of it but her computers really old.

If you get onto your game you might have to chang eyour game quality to low. If you go to the options panel I suggest turning some things to low. If you can possibly turn things off like little things as seeing neighbor hood decorations.

If the problem persists you might want to ask your computer technician and if still it happens contact the EA services in case they know.

Answer 3

I had the same problem with my Sims game, I am guessing you may have downloaded a virus from one of the sites(that was my problem) but your best bet may to be too re-install.

Answer 4

A good tool I used to clean up and speed up my PC is CCleaner. You can download it for free here http://bitly.com/UrAS6r

Answer 5

ur probably seen one of my answers on the same subject,so if that did not help i strongly suggest that u contact one of the best answerers

(IMHO) called wollybutt and i'm sure this answerer will help u



hope that helps :)