Help! My Sims 3 game keeps blacking out!?

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Arya

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I bought the game recently and installed it on my Acer Veriton M661 computer. For the last 3 days I've been playing live mode, create a sim, buy mode etc. for 2 to 4 hours a day. However, tonight after about an hour of game play the screen blinked for several seconds before turning black and unresponsive. I've restarted the computer four times and each time the game only last for about five to ten minutes before blacking out again.

Why is this happening?
How do I fix it?

Thanks:)
I'm pretty certain that I meet the system reqs...

Proccessor: Intel® Core™2 Quad Processor Q6600
(8MB L2 cache, 2.40GHz, 1066MHz FSB)
or
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E8400
(6MB L2 cache, 3.0Ghz, 1333Mhz FSB)

Video:Discrete ATI Radeon™ HD 3450 PRO graphics
or
Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3100

Chipset:Intel® Q35 Express chipset with Intel® ICH9DO

Memory:Up to 4GB (1/1/1/1) DDR2 SDRAM installed in each of four memory slots

Sims 3 Requires....

FOR WINDOWS VISTA
•2.4 GHz P4 processor or equivalent
•1.5 GB RAM
•128 MB Video Card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0
•Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1
•At least 6.1 GB of hard drive space with at least 1 GB of additional space for custom content and saved games

For computers using built-in graphics chipsets under Windows, the game requires at least:
•Intel Integrated Chipset, GMA 3-Series or above
•2.6 GHz Pentium D CPU, or 1.8 GHz Core 2 Duo, or equivalent
•0.5 GB additional RAM
 
i personally think its the game itself i mean have you seen the question on yahoo its all about why there sims 3 game wont work so i think that the company just made some crap put it on a c.d. and tried to make a fortune so personally if i were you i would take it back and btw i think sims 2 is better i mean the graphics are better and you dont get as much problems with it
 
sounds like a video card problem to me, try to update your driver, check to see if this happens in other directx or openGL programs
 
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