5 minutes ago, Novation said:

Is the sim alone using that much, or is that in total?. Can you reduce the load by closing other apps down?.

I used to have 8GB and XP would use it all, but it would not crash as it would use the page file. Stuttered like buggery though.

Thats a good question it just says 11-14gb on the overlay, i just presumed thats what the sims using but maybe now thats what the whole system is using.

5 hours ago, smoothchat said:

The only way it would run (without crashing) on my 16GB machine was to manually set a 10GB pagefile and not allow windows to manage it.

Even that will crash given enough times or a change in settings. If you make a system managed pagefile you can watch it grow the entire time playing until it fills the hard drive. I have watched it exceed 50GB in size completely filling the drive then crashing. The game appears to hold on to everything regardless of distance or time and never removes assets from memory that it may not need for a while. The smaller the pagefile the quicker the crash comes. I imagine most of the people without crashes just haven't played long enough. Even if I set everything to low it will will the pagefile. It just takes longer and I can't find a work around at all. I currently have 5 ssds all with a pagefile of 10GB and it will still fill that 50GB worth of pagefile then crash.   

Just set the  pagefile size to automatic and you'll never have the problem again.

Turn off MSI Afterburner and other background programs and check if it still crashes.

 

No problem here with 16GB & 747 & Paris.

Edited August 21, 20205 yr by Gomoto