• Large Address Aware Not Working

Yes, that sounds a bit odd, because it should be if you're on a 64 bit system, which I assume you are?Have you checked how much RAM your game is using at the most? Mine was using almost 3GB once when I looked, and as I understand it, that wouldn't be possible if it wasn't LAA. And I have never used the LAA utility, or done any other manual modifications to make that happen.Before I installed Late Night from DVD disk, and thereby got the 1.17 patch, I had one or two Error 12, which are 'out of memory' errors according to. After that patch I haven't had any more error 12, so I imagine it was that patch that made it possible for the game to access more than only 2GB RAM, which in turn stopped the error 12 from happening. It's fine that the LAA program solved your problems immediately, but I can't for the life of me understand why the 1.17 patch didn't do the job automatically for you like it should have done, and apparently did for me. That's a real mystery.Have you any constructive ideas or theories as to what is/was going on, that made/makes it necessary for you to use the LAA thing? Best home weather station.

Large Address Aware Not Working

Is there maybe something unusual with your Sims 3 installation, location or otherwise, that could possibly explain this?And also, I can't understand what EA were thinking when they made Sims 3 to not be LAA in the first place, and then waited 16 months, from June 2009 to October 2010, before they 'wizened up' as Twallan put it, and issued a much needed patch that corrected this obvious mistake. During those 16 months the evil Error 12 was rampant like the plague among the Sims 3 community, because I don't think most people knew what caused it, and also didn't know about the LAA utility, when later on that was made publicly available by its creator. Other than the fact I don't let it install to Program Files (which, to be fair, I don't do with -any- of my games), no idea.I have to do it on my desktop too. I just had a thought. I wonder if it's because I launch the game directly from TS3W.exe, because that's the file I always patch.After all, there's 5 executables in the base game DIR (S3Launcher, Sims3Launcher, Sims3LauncherW, TS3 and TS3W)Also, if you think about it, most people in June 2009 were running systems with 2-4GB RAM and Windows XP.maybe- Vista, and even then it wasn't guaranteed to be the 64-bit version.It's highly likely EA didn't make the game LAA compatible to ensure it ran on these older systems. At that point, I was running XP Pro 64-Bit edition and had 8GB RAM in my machine. So I was an oddity.

So, in terms a not so tech savvy person would understand what do you recommend to stop the game from giving me a popup that it needs to close sims 3 every so often because it's using too much memory?I have Windows 8 on my laptopSpecs:processor: intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz 1.90GHzinstalled memory (RAM): 8.00 GB (7.87 GB usable)system type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processorI get a popup that it needs to close sims 3 to prevent memory loss and when I open up the Task Manager it shows it is using 3-4GB and my laptop apparently doesn't like that. I don't HAVE to close out the game, and CAN keep playing but I'm not sure that's the best thing to do.As for my one Riverview family that crashed and was my only crashing issue, saving them to the library and reloading them in a new town/save helped.

For anyone who may have installed as I recommended before., I hope that you kept backup copies of the original exe files, because if you try to install the patch with the LAA modified files, it will fail and then completely, as I found out the hard way just now. For me, I just deleted the modified files, renamed the copies to the originals, let the patch run, and then reapplied the Large Address Aware patch.(As for the actual patch, once again it apparently didn't fix a single one of the issues I've been having, according to the. Main thing it apparently did was add 'car friendship'? I do not care about that in the slightest.