The Sims 3 Issues, Glitches, Patches, Mods

The game worked perfectly for a few days, but now when I try to load a saved game it gets stuck after loading only half way. Then the whole program closes itself without a warning or error message and my screen resolution settings are changed to 800×600.

The problem im having with my game is that the screen randomly goes dark (as if someone had turned off the lights) and then git gets darker until the screen is completely black.
You can still hear the sims talking and the game going in the background but you cant play, it completely freezes the computer.
Only way i have is by restarting.
It happens everytime

has anyone else had the problem on the disk where your sims arent seemless. i mean its like the feet, head,and middle half are floating on oneother. nothings lining up right. should i reload the disk?

One of my sims is bald!!!

I put in the hair, and the first family I made became a huge clan of baldies despite it. Next family I made, just the adults were bald – kids were fine. Makes them very unattractive, I must say.

Why does my game keep closing out before i can save it or anything, it does that everytime in like 5min. or less

i downloaded it and i suspect the graphic card, is a onboard VGA 128 its runs the game in high resolution 1440X900 middle graphics and 2 things in high but some ppl with onboard VGA are having this problem thats y i suspect…but i will keep tring,if u know something new about this lee tell me plz^^u helped so much thanks^^

I don’t understand mine. It says Ati2dvag had to shut down and the whole screen is in 256 color mode and everything is HUGE(graphics). Sims stops responding and I have to reboot(hard shut down) my computer. First time it happened my computer ran a disk check and didn’t come up with anything. Second time it just restarted when I shut down. But the third time I went in to play my computer shut down and restarted on it’s own.

It didn’t do this when I made my first character, and I played her for 12 or so hours. But, when I went to make a companion for her, it let’s me select gender and how their body looks but when I go to change the hair or anything else it crashes. I’ve checked for updates for my driver, but it says that it’s all up to date. Plus, I play World of Warcraft and never shut down. *shrug* Waste of 70$, if I can’t play.

I have Windows XP Media Center Edition
and ATI Radeon X300 graphics
and I know for a fact I have more than enough Memory to run the game.

Meh.

I want to buy sims but i’m younger than 15 which is when u can get a job so I hav littl money n my parents wouldn’t buy the game for me. i loooooove sims but they don’t like it when the game crashes. im not even allowd 2 play sims 2 anymore because they say its not good 4 the PC. I dont just looove sims, i m CAAAARRRRRAAAAZZZZZZZAYYYYY 4 it!!!!!!!!!!!! I just don’t want to buy a game that doesn’t work or is not fun that is <$50! I don't want to be in debt for a <month if its a bad game. Any suggestions for the best way to make sure the game doesn't crash!?

Yeah, there are alot of problems.
It seems the most common are the ones concerning crashes before the game finishes loading and issues controlling time (game does not speed up when higher speed buttons are pressed, or it speeds up while doing everything except sleeping, or it won’t stop speeding while sleeping, and the fourth control absolutely doesn’t work ever) which is one of my issues.

People without problems are the lucky ones.

The game has very few glitches. It’s far superior to the sims 2…you can actually walk across the street now as you have neighbors and not some ‘stephen king-like MIST’ that obscures all houses on the block except yours. No more blocky bodies or odd joker-like smiles or plastic looking hair.

You WILL be mad at the lack of objects with which to decorate your houses because in both the leaked rtm version and the retail this exists; the retail has no more objects that the one u can dl for free off a torrent everywhere on the internet now. That’s EA lying when they tell you otherwise.

It’s a fun game but def not worth $70. It will be more fun when the modders start doing what they do.

I tried to throw a party and the guest wouldn’t leave! They wouldn’t move, I couldn’t ask them to leave. They just stood their until they P**D on themselves and started to get bad hygiene. I’ve seen on a couple of boards people having that same problem.

And this isn’t a glitch but they really should fix the speed up time, its super slow when the Sims are sleeping or at work. Makes the gameplay boring.

I’m not sure if this has happened to anyone else, but while I’m creating my Sim, my whole computer shuts down. Not just the game, but EVERYTHING. I’ve tried bringing down the settings to their minimum, and it still happens, even with my computer being well-over the minimum spec requirements.

One of the glitches I have encounter is that after a while of playing, the sims will desappear. The action continues but the sims are ghosts. If they were reading a book, the book appears floating in mid air and all but where’s my sim? oh It’s a ghost! It’s funny in the begining, but after a while it’s not anymore.
If I save the game after lots of playing, the game doesn’t save. It takes forever telling me it’s saving but it doesn’t. So my advice is, save as often as you can