BV freezes forever
Ionopachys:
Alright, I just installed Bon Voyage. Unfortunately, it randomly freezes after a few minutes of play. The sound continues playing, but everything is locked up. The curser will still move for a few minutes, then it will freeze. There seems to be no pattern. This will happen during play, buy, and build modes. I cannot minimize the program or bring up the task manager. The computer will not shut down after pressing the power button or restart with ctrl+alt+delete. I have to cut the power manually by holding the power button in. I reduced the sound acceleration in DirectX, as EA recommends, and then turned it off entirely. I set the affinity to CPU1. I have turned off all back ground processes. Of course I tried it with no CC. Nothing solves it.
My system more than meets the requirements, but to be sure:
XP Media SP2
PentiumD 3.2 GHz
1 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB
So far I have only found references to this problem on macs. Has anyone heard of this problem on P.C.'s, and a way to fix it?
J. M. Pescado:
Does this happen with Free Will deactivated?
phyllis_p:
Do you have the most recent NVidia drivers?
KellyQ:
Quote from: Ionopachys on 2007 December 14, 05:36:00
Alright, I just installed Bon Voyage. Unfortunately, it randomly freezes after a few minutes of play. The sound continues playing, but everything is locked up. The curser will still move for a few minutes, then it will freeze. There seems to be no pattern. This will happen during play, buy, and build modes. I cannot minimize the program or bring up the task manager. The computer will not shut down after pressing the power button or restart with ctrl+alt+delete. I have to cut the power manually by holding the power button in. I reduced the sound acceleration in DirectX, as EA recommends, and then turned it off entirely. I set the affinity to CPU1. I have turned off all back ground processes. Of course I tried it with no CC. Nothing solves it.
My system more than meets the requirements, but to be sure:
XP Media SP2
PentiumD 3.2 GHz
1 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 256MB
So far I have only found references to this problem on macs. Has anyone heard of this problem on P.C.'s, and a way to fix it?
I have had the same exact problem ever since BV came out. We have similar specs although you have a faster processor then I do and my card is the Nvidia 7600 GT.
I played the update, roll back, try different drivers, game for a few months before I finally just gave up. I haven't found any solution or pattern to the computer freeze up. I finally just uninstalled BV and hope that EA figures out a patch to solve the Nvidia conflict.
Ionopachys:
I didn't mess with free will since it will happen in buy and build modes too, when the sims aren't doing anything anyway.
Yes, I updated the driver too, which installed this bloated Nvidia setting control thing.
So you think this has something to do with the video card? I am getting so sick of EA. I almost didn't bother with Bon Voyage, after the SafeDisk fiasco, but since I have no problems with NWN2, I figured I'd risk this SecuRom. After all this there's no way I'm messing with a Sims 3. I was really looking forward to Spore, but now I don't know if I will ever buy another EA title again.
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