Why Does The Sims 3 Turn Itself Off When Loading The Neighborhood?

When my sister plays,when we haven't even done a thing it just turns back to the main screen!(on the actual computer!Not the game!)

I found the answer!!!!! You have not enough memory orrr you don't have system requirements

Low memory makes it shut down

I have a top of the range Advent 7555GX Gaming Laptop with a top of the range graphics card and 4Gig of RAM and the Sims 3 still just randomly shuts down after playing it for a few hours loosing my whole game. OR it freezes whilst in Save mode and doesnt save. I have to then close Sims 3 using Windows Task Manager.

I don't think its the actual PC's thats the issue its the game itself.

I'm having the same problem only my system is more of a haus than the game.  The game closing itself and bringing me back to my desktop is not due to pc performance or graphics.  Maybe its the most recent patches because I don't recall having this problem before.

Is sims 3 that bed I was going to buy it

My shuts down when just loading the original screen~

My sims 3 only closes itself when I load the save game !!

Mine doesn't turn off itself while loading the neighborhood
but it turns off by itself when ever I pause the game and leave for
a few minutes
it drives me crazy

Same thing happens to me, except my game only shuts down when the video finishes playing or when I cancel watching the vid. ITS SO ANNOYING!!!!!

Can some one help me.when you pick a city and it starts loading it load to like 15% and then I get back to the windows menu. :S ;S

Yeah when like I click on the family I want to play.. You know like once every things done loading it just turns off it's so annoying I'm about to beat the crap out of my computer. What's up with it does anyone know? I have an  I mac but it's my sisters computer so I don't know if it'll work.. I hate this so much it really stinks cause it's funner (in my opinion) to play on the desk top. I am absolutely obsessed with the sims I need it lol!

I know! When I edit my town it automatically swiches off.
I also got sims 3 world adventures and I tried to get my
1000 sim points but I had to activate it with the email
they sent me...
THEN someone tried to log in my adress and now its totaly blocked.
HELP!

Try lowering the graphics in the settings menu, thats what I done and now its fine, but also save it often just incase. If that doesnt work then, like someone else said it might be you don't have that much meory, so delete things you don't need or use like old music, photos or videos or save them oto a memory card. I hope this helps!

I have the same problem, and its really annoying me

I had to update the sims from the expansion pack disk.
Click my computer, Right click "Sims3EP01", open the support folder, open the update folder, use one of the updates in there. I just used the first one, now it works perfectly

My game loads fine, and when I get to my family its on  pause and its normal, and then when I try to do something like move or click on anything my game shuts off and returns me to my desktop. I have been having problems for about five days now. I have reinstalled many times, and that seems NOT to work. I have tried a system restore but no luck there. Any ideas on whats happening?? I am a sims FREAK and soooo addicted and all I really want to do is play :( help!!!

The answer is that you need a strong enough laptop, if your sims 2 walls flashed red then its likely that your sims 3 will turn off on itself because it cannot hold the graphics, as they have made them stronger. You need something like a desktop because these are great for playing games. My laptop is fujitsu siemens and it takes AGES to load the neighbourhood, it takes about 30 mins to load all the way, and then my game goes so slow its really annoying. So you need a really strong laptop like sony or something