> > It could also mean the system is overheating. Friends with laptops and integrated > graphics have had that problem in the past.
Yeah, I considered overheating as a possibility, but I'm sure that's not the case for two reasons...
1) No other graphically intensive games cause it to crash, even after many hours of playing
2) Sims 3 often crashes immediately upon entering the game, even right after booting the computer (it's still relatively cold).
Personally, I believe that the game is somehow exhausting the shared memory of the video card. I'm convinced that there's a coding problem somewhere in the game engine, but EA is unwilling to even acknowledge the problem. They'd rather write off anyone playing on a laptop with Intel graphics, even if it's a DX10 capable part.
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