I was originally having some problems with my pc (nothing sims related) so I took it in to have a system recovery done. I got my pc back a few days ago. I installed my game (I own all EP & SP's), loaded it, created a new hood and family and started to play it. I had been playing for about 2 minutes when I decided to send one of my sims downtown. It loaded ok but after being in the downtown lot for about 1 minute my game crashed without warning. ever since then my game would crash randomly but always after playing a lot (any lot, even maxis made) for a few minutes. I tried removing my downloads folder, clearing my cache, disabling my anti-virus (norton 360) etc.. but nothing worked so I decided to uninstall my game and start again.

I have just finished reinstalling my game again (I installed everything except BV) but I am still having the same problems. I have tried removing downloads/neighbourhoods/saved sims files, then removing all user files etc.. but nothing helped.

When I reinstalled my game I made sure that after I installed each EP I then installed the relevant patch.

I have tried everything I can think of yet my game still crashes. I know it can't be my memory/video card as before I had the recovery done everything worked fine.

I've included an attachment of my system specs

Any help would be greatly appreciated