Sims 3 Crashes When Saving Family to Bin

The Sims three
Developers

	The Sims Studio
Expansions	EA Salt Lake
macOS (OS X)	TransGaming Inc.
Publishers
	Electronic Arts
Engines
	The Sims 3 Engine
Release dates
Windows	June ii, 2009
macOS (Bone 10) (Cider)	June 2, 2009
Reception
Metacritic	86
IGDB	83
Taxonomy
Monetization	Sponsored, DLC, Expansion pack
Microtransactions	Currency, Cosmetic, Finite spend
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Free-roaming photographic camera, Bird'south-middle view
Controls	Point and select, Multiple select
Genres	Life sim, Sandbox, Building
Sports	Fishing, American football, Water sports, Horse, Table tennis, Football game (Soccer)
Vehicles	Robot
Art styles	Stylized
Serial	The Sims

The Sims
Subseries of Sim
The Sims	2000
The Sims Online	2002
The Sims 2	2004
The Sims Stories (series)
MySims	2008
The Sims 3	2009
The Sims Medieval	2011
The Sims 4	2014

1 Availability
- 1.1 Version differences
ii Monetization
- 2.ane DLC and expansion packs
- two.2 Microtransactions
3 Essential improvements
- iii.one Patches
- iii.ii Utilities
  - 3.2.i Smooth Patch
  - iii.2.ii SMAA injector
- three.3 Miscellaneous
- 3.4 Increase how much VRAM the game can apply
- 3.5 Increase how much CPU power the game will actively employ
4 Game data
- 4.1 Configuration file(due south) location
- 4.ii Relieve game information location
- 4.iii Salvage game deject syncing
5 Video
six Input
7 Audio
- 7.one Localizations
8 Issues fixed
- 8.ane Poor performance
- 8.2 World Adventures Region Error
nine Bug unresolved
10 Other data
- x.1 API
xi Modifications
- 11.1 Modernistic resource
- 11.2 Tools
  - 11.2.one Official
  - 11.ii.2 Unofficial
- 11.iii Better operation
- 11.iv Recommended mods
12 System requirements
thirteen Notes
14 References

The Sims 3 is a life simulator game, with aspects of town management and adventure. Information technology is noteworthy for having the other households age alongside the active household, the high power to interact with the entire neighborhood without loading screens, and the extensive grapheme trait and Create-a-Style systems.

After a pre-release beta was leaked in May 2009,^[i] the game was released in June 2009, subsequently which information technology received expansion packs and frequent set up patches until 2014. Afterwards but functionality-disquisitional patches have been released, such as one for adding Origin support in 2015, and a 64-bit macOS update in 2020.

The game has few or no compatibility bug on Windows xi equally of November 2021,^[2] and the modding scene remains active.

Key points

Strong modding customs

Lacks native V-sync functionality. It is advised to force vertical sync via the graphics control panel to lessen the strain on the GPU.

General information

The Sims 3 Official Forums

Answer HQ for The Sims 3 at EA.com

Answer HQ for The Sims serial at EA.com (OS X)

Steam Community Discussions

Availability [edit]

Version differences [edit]

List of all different versions and regions tin can be found on Wikipedia.

Monetization [edit]

Type	Notes
DLC	Stuff packs contain sizeable additions to content already available in the base of operations game.
Expansion pack	Expansions contain major gameplay additions non present in the base game.
Sponsored	Certain Stuff packs feature products from real-life companies and celebrities.^[iii]

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
World Adventures	Expansion 1
Ambitions	Expansion 2
Belatedly Dark	Expansion iii. Included with EA Play.
Generations	Expansion4
Pets	Expansion five
Showtime	Expansion vi
Supernatural	Expansion 7
Seasons	Expansion 8
University Life	Expansion 9
Isle Paradise	Expansion 10
Into the Future	Expansion eleven
High-End Loft Stuff	Stuff pack 1. Also known equally Pattern and Howdy-Tech Stuff in Europe Included with EA Play.
Fast Lane Stuff	Stuff pack 2
Outdoor Living Stuff	Stuff pack 3
Town Life Stuff	Stuff pack 4
Master Suite Stuff	Stuff pack v
Katy Perry'south Sweet Treats	Stuff pack 6. Not bachelor digitally anymore, presumably due to license expiration.
Diesel Stuff	Stuff pack vii
70s, 80s, & 90s Stuff	Stuff pack 8
Movie Stuff	Stuff pack ix

Microtransactions [edit]

Blazon	Notes
Cosmetic	SimPoints are spent on additional clothing and furniture.
Currency	Real money is exchanged for SimPoints which are spent in the Sims three Store. SimPoints are not available to be earned in-game.
Finite spend	Once all Sims 3 Store items have been bought, the limit has been reached.
Unlock	Stuff Packs are sold which consist of additional article of clothing and furniture. Additionally, other maps and gameplay elements are sold piecemeal on the Sims iii store.

Essential improvements [edit]

Patches [edit]

The post-obit are the latest patch versions for each edition of the game.

Retail/DVD and Steam - 1.67.2. The link provided is for the retail version. Steam version is already patched.
Origin (Windows and macOS 32-bit) - 1.69.43
Origin (macOS 64-chip) - 1.70.305
The patch notes can be constitute hither here.

Utilities [edit]

Smooth Patch [edit]

ASI modern by LazyDuchess. Alters the speed at which the game's processing threads run, which improves the overall functioning of the game and some loading times.

SMAA injector [edit]

Universal fix for near D3D9 and later on games. Should provide better anti-aliasing especially with objects that utilise alpha furnishings e.g. hair and leaf; the default FSAA implementation unfortunately does not cover such furnishings.

Miscellaneous [edit]

Skip intro videos^[iv]
Download and install No Intro mod

Bypass the launcher^[v]
Rename the executable. Go to `<path-to-game>\Game\Bin`. Delete or rename `Sims3Launcher.exe`. Rename `TS3.exe` to `Sims3Launcher.exe`.

Bypass the launcher^[v]

Rename the executable.

Go to <path-to-game>\Game\Bin.
Delete or rename Sims3Launcher.exe.
Rename TS3.exe to Sims3Launcher.exe.

Increase how much VRAM the game can use [edit]

Past default, the game limits itself to 2 GB of VRAM. It is possible to brand it utilize the full amount of VRAM the graphics card has.

Edit `GraphicsRules.srg` ^[vi] ^[7]
Open `<path-to-game>\Game\Bin\GraphicsRules.srg` in a text editor. Change `seti textureMemory` from either 2048 or 32, to the GPU'southward VRAM multiplied by 1024. For example, vi GB = 6144.

Increase how much CPU ability the game will actively utilise [edit]

Edit `GraphicsRules.srg` ^[half-dozen] ^[vii]
Open `<path-to-game>\Game\Bin\GraphicsRules.srg` in a text editor. Change both `seti cpuLevelMedium` and `seti cpuLevelLow` from 2 and ane respectively, to 3.

Game data [edit]

Configuration file(s) location [edit]

Save game data location [edit]

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims iii\Saves
macOS (Bone X)	~/Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-binder>/steamapps/compatdata/47890/pfx/ ^{[Note two]}

Save game cloud syncing [edit]

System	Native	Notes
Origin
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Deject

Video [edit]

Video settings

Input [edit]

General settings, including camera invertion

Audio [edit]

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Voices, Sound furnishings, Music, Background noises, Sound quality
Surroundings sound		4.0 and 5.ane tin can be chosen for when zoomed in. Tries to force sound through individual speakers that have been ready in the Windows sound settings as being non-present.^[eleven]
Subtitles		No intelligible dialog. All in-game dialog uses the fictional Simlish linguistic communication.
Closed captions		Sound furnishings accompanied past visual furnishings.
Mute on focus lost		Can exist turned off

Localizations

After the initial installation, further language changes must be done in the Windows registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Sims\The Sims 3 → Locale (On 32-bit Windows installations it'southward at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sims\The Sims 3). The process is explained at Crinrict's Sims three Assistance Web log, although its list of en-GB is non a valid code.^[12]

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Czech
Traditional Chinese
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Castilian
Swedish
Thai

Issues fixed [edit]

Diverse fixes can be establish in this Steam Customs Guide.

Many functioning problems can be stock-still with mods. These include Overwatch, ErrorTrap, Traveler, Mastercontroller and DebugEnabler

Poor operation [edit]

Turn off online functionality ^{[citation needed]}
Open the in-game settings Become to general settings Plough off shop mode, lessons, usage sharing, memories and interactive loading screens Go to online settings Turn off online notifications

Earth Adventures Region Fault [edit]

Wrong Region Codes can exist stock-still with a elementary registry tweak.

Earth Adventures Region Error ^{[citation needed]}
Go to `HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\The Sims\The Sims iii` In the right hand pane, double-click on SKU Change the value to either 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 (depending on the user'due south version of the expansion pack). Try to install the expansion pack once again. Region Codes Due north America (languages: en-U.s.a., fr-FR, es-MX) Europe (languages: en-US, fr-FR, es-ES, de-DE, it-IT, nl-NL, sv-SE, da-DK, no-NO, fi-FI, pl-PL, pt-PT, hu-HU, cs-CZ, pt-BR, el-GR, ru-RU) Eastern asia (languages: en-US, ko-KR, zh-TW) Japan (languages: en-U.s., ja-JP) Worldwide (languages: en-US, fr-FR, es-ES, es-MX, de-DE, information technology-It, nl-NL, sv-SE, da-DK, no-NO, fi-FI, pl-PL, pt-PT, hu-HU, cs-CZ, pt-BR, el-GR, ru-RU, ko-KR, zh-TW, ja-JP, th-Th)

Earth Adventures Region Error ^{[citation needed]}

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\The Sims\The Sims iii
In the right hand pane, double-click on SKU
Change the value to either 1 or 2 or 3 or 5 or 7 (depending on the user'due south version of the expansion pack).
Try to install the expansion pack once again.

Region Codes

Due north America (languages: en-U.s.a., fr-FR, es-MX)
Europe (languages: en-US, fr-FR, es-ES, de-DE, it-IT, nl-NL, sv-SE, da-DK, no-NO, fi-FI, pl-PL, pt-PT, hu-HU, cs-CZ, pt-BR, el-GR, ru-RU)
Eastern asia (languages: en-US, ko-KR, zh-TW)
Japan (languages: en-U.s., ja-JP)
Worldwide (languages: en-US, fr-FR, es-ES, es-MX, de-DE, information technology-It, nl-NL, sv-SE, da-DK, no-NO, fi-FI, pl-PL, pt-PT, hu-HU, cs-CZ, pt-BR, el-GR, ru-RU, ko-KR, zh-TW, ja-JP, th-Th)

Issues unresolved [edit]

Screenshots taken with PrintScreen in fullscreen mode, have much darker colour saturation than what they're supposed to accept.^[2]

Other data [edit]

API [edit]

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9
DirectDraw		A `ddraw.dll` file is present in the game'southward folders.
Metal support		Requires macOS 10.13 (High Sierra).
Shader Model support	ii.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Modifications [edit]

The Sims three attracts a large modding community, allowing farther customization features. Unfortunately, even properly designed mods could increase the chances of crashes and errors in the game. Mods have a major touch on on loading time and stability, and should be used with discretion if yous are having issues with the game.

AwesomeMod - A large compilation of mods and small-scale tweaks. More information can be establish at The Sims Wikia and Matywikka (archived)

Mod resources [edit]

The Sims 3 Substitution - The official website for sharing user-made content (sims, households, clothing, etc.). The website uses the Sims iii launcher to download and install custom content. Both the exchange and Sims 3 launcher require the same business relationship.

Modernistic The Sims - Also hosts mods for The Sims ii and The Sims 4.

Tools [edit]

Official [edit]

These tools were created by EA and are hosted on the games official website.

Create a Earth (Beta)

Unofficial [edit]

More tools can exist found on ModTheSims.

Ameliorate performance [edit]

SaveCleaner

Recommended mods [edit]

NRaas Overwatch^[vii]

Contains bugfixes for Sims that have walked into spots without outside path routing, empty cars that stand still in the road, superfluous/corrupt caches, NPCs stuck in-between life ages, and a bug involving a police station mission that can't be won, among other things.

Replaces Sims three Seasons' moon cycle with a more detailed one.

The mod volition show in-game notifications when it has taken activeness to resolve the tasks above.

System requirements [edit]

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (Os)	7	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Pentium 4 2.4 GHz AMD Athlon XP 2400+
Organisation retentivity (RAM)	1.5 GB
Hard deejay drive (HDD)	seven.1 GB	32 GB (with all DLC)
Video carte du jour (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 series ATI Radeon 9500 serial Intel GMA 3000 series 128 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 2.0 support

For computers using built-in graphics the game requires an Intel Pentium D 805 2.66 GHz or a Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz CPU, and 2 GB RAM.

VRAM requirements do not utilize to integrated GPUs.

GeForce 6100 and 7100 cards are not supported.

macOS (Os Ten)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating arrangement (OS)	10.5.7 (Leopard)	10.13 (High Sierra)
Processor (CPU)	Intel Cadre Duo	Intel Core i5
System retention (RAM)	2 GB	viii GB
Hd (HDD)	seven.i GB	18 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce 7300 GT ATI Radeon X1600 Pro Intel GMA X3100 128 MB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon RX 560 Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640