Hi, sorry to bother everyone, but has anyone figured out how to stop their game from crashing because of pets, some people say other pets (like horses) causes their game to crash, but mines only crash when theirs a large dog in my household, or somewhere on my screen. I've searched alot to find a solution and the only one that works is turning off Advanced Rendering, but I prefer advanced rendering on, I honestly don't know what else to do, I can't even play in Appaloosa Plains world because of this.

What do you have for a graphics card? Pets is by far the most graphic resource intensive of all of the EPs (followed not very closely by Seasons, then IP and ITF). It is going to drag the game down like crazy in terms of performance and stability on medium or higher graphics options settings if it's not operating in a strong enough environment.

There is also an EA bug with large dogs in particular where the game will, behind the scenes and not obvious to the player, go into a loop where it repeatedly tries to calculate the path for the dog and one or more sims to a bathtub if one is on the lot in order to give it a bath even if the dog is not really in need of one. The solution that works for most players who encounter this is to keep the dogs but get rid of the bathtubs. In favor of showers, I mean, not in favor of not allowing sims to bathe at all. I also tend to keep a bathtub in family inventory or in some usually inaccessible location on the home lot to be dragged out when the dog really does need a bath, then put away or locked up again.

My graphic settings are all set to medium except draw distance, draw distance is low. Guess I'll have to lower my settings and see if that helps.

I never really have large dogs or a bathtub in my household, and my game still shuts down when a large dog is around, but thanks for telling me about the bathtub problem. I didn't know that also causes peoples game to shut down.

Advanced Rendering on is considered a more than medium graphics option setting. I realize the game doesn't look nearly as nice without it, but some GPUs are just not going to be able to render pet fur (no matter how furry or not the pet actually is) without running out of resources.

No mention of what you are using for a graphics card. Does that mean such a conversation is over or you need help with finding out what you have?

Without more information to go on, I would ask if your system's fps is effectively locked in at or under your monitor's refresh rate (most are 60 Hz, so that means 60 fps though some can rub a bit higher), which can be checked in-game by way of the fps on cheats console command. Historically, integrated graphics will not run away with the fps but medium range to higher end graphics cards certainly can; TS3 being an older game has no functional built-in fps limiter. And does anything different happen when playing in windowed mode vs. full screen?