@Darens-Stuff The crash is listed as an access violation: the game tried to access memory in a way that isn't allowed. (In this case, the crash log says the game tried to read a an address that's protected and is assigned to system processes, but Sims 3 crash logs are notoriously unreliable.) The problem is, this kind of error can be caused by all kinds of underlying issues, from a faulty game install to a corrupt device driver to bad custom content.
In your case, the next move is to uninstall and reinstall Alpine County and see whether that helps. If it doesn't, move your entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, open the launcher to create a clean folder, install only Alpine County, and copy over your save. (There will be a folder with your save name in the Saves folder inside the old Sims 3 folder.) Since you're copying the save instead of moving it, you can freely experiment on the copy while the original remains intact, and it won't matter if the save is missing other cc or store content. Let me know whether you still get any crashes.
By the way, the crash log also says the game was using 3.5 GB RAM when it crashed. If that was a temporary spike, the Task Manager might not have picked it up, and regardless, it's high enough to make the game unstable and prone to crashing. Additionally, if this was in fact a spike and not just the overall RAM use during that play session, that could reflect an error within the save that the game engine was using extra memory trying to resolve.
My point is, while the end result is the same—game gets close to RAM limit, makes an invalid call to memory, it crashes or Windows initiates a crash—there are multiple possible underlying causes. Sometimes it's difficult or even impossible to tell exactly what went wrong without running a debugger in live mode. And so it takes trial and error to figure out how to address it.
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