The Sims 3 Not responding

I have the same problem, tried everything to get it to work. Works on the laptop without the options of speeding up the game.

On the PC- can create a sim start playing about 5 mins (with the ability to speed up game play) then freezes screen goes gray then to black.

I managed to get the gameplay to last a bit longer by playing around with windows Sound options and the ingame options but crashes within 15 minutes.

Looks like were all just going to have to wait for a patch to fix this problem

I've reduced the game to window mode too, but after like my 5th time in window mode, it goes black, but it comes back. It does this many times throughout the game, but at the end, the window closes!!!

I play in windowed mode and it still does that.

i uninstall the game "sims 3" not because it didn't work, just because I want it to .. but now whenever I try to install it it says 205 files to 237 or something like that on about 20 min. but I wait like for an hour and when I came back it looked the same.. can you help me.? i'm using an original cd. and a IMAC :) thank you!

This problem is not a case of minimum req... Its a problem that EA are fully aware of. Its random if your computer will run it without crashing.

There is a memory leak and some system setups will ignor it and run fine while others will not accept it, and freeze.

A I said before I tested the game on two machines

PC Vista 64bit
6Gb RAM
3Ghz Duel core
768Mb 8800 gtx

* Game play runes fine for 5 minutes untill it freezes.
* Windowed mode gets about 10 minutes
* Ingame speed options work fine.

Once the game stops responding you can Ctl. Alt, Del and close it. No need to turn off the power button like that person is doing.

OR

you can leave it not responding and Minimise the game for about 5 minutes untill it starts to respond and you can continue where you were last before it crashed.

Other Computer

Laptop

Vista 32 bit
2Gb RAM
2Ghz Duel Core
8200m graphics

On this Laptop Sims 3 runs quite smooth. does not crash no matter how long you play for however the ingame speed options does not work so you will enough watching your sim sleep at a very slow rate.

All we can do is hope that a diehard fan can find a good temp fix untill EA find the fault and give us the patch.

one day EA might allow a game of theirs to start in beta testing untill its fully ready.

My sims 3 crashes...in the middle of loading time

Spec:
ATI 4890 HD
RAM 5GB DDR3
Quad Core Duo 2.33GHZ
500GB SATA

Installed in External WD 500GB

What could be the possible reason?

my pc has the pc of 3gb ram 320 gb hard drive and graphics intel g33/g31 express chip set family and the blank screen is still coming up its a 256mb graphic card intel doe

Agree with the above comment that there are people at EA should look for another job because I have had question & answer sessions with them & they are NO help WHATSOEVER !!

I can't even get it to shut down using ctrl alt delete. I have to literally restart my computer every time it crashes. Do you have a way to get around that?

No you don't have to loose your games. I'm pretty sure you can back up the files. At least you could do it on The Sims 2. You just have to find The Sims 3 file in 'My Documents'. I have a Mac, so I can't tell you how. But i'm sure you can figure it out... if not google it, it will be on the internet somewhere...

I HAVE THAT TOO!!!! what should I do??? it lets me create a sims but when I go on buy mode, build mode or live mode it freezes and the screen goes black. it comes up (also) that the program is not responding. I have asked my friend what I should do and she said that it was like a phase, your computer will get used to the sims 3 but it has been months since I first got it and it hasn't stopped. should I delet it and re-install or wait untill it goes away?

I have a mac and don't have that same problem but I have needed to re-install the game a couple of times. I'm pretty sure it erases everything but I can't remember. I also tried playing the game on a different login, because it was the same game installed but a different launcher. That works if the problem is something to do with your installed content.

Hey, I kinda have the same problem, just that. I can play for like half an hour, then it freezes and then the game dissapears and my deskop comes up. And I have to restart the game, and the same thing happens after half an hour again

I Have the exact same problem. After hlf and hour of playing the game And I know its about to shutoff because My Computer Blinks lik 3 times before it shuts down So I tried to save my game. & let it shut down and freeze but wen I try to open the sims3 game again it doesnt load and it says please try again. On my other files it works but on the upgraded one that I want to play it doesnt work at all. I Need HELP please.!!

i agree with you I have windows vista and everything went well but is deff! the hair cuz as soon as I put a hair style it turns black so is deff the hairstyle but I didnt download no hairstyle is it still something affecting it?