Did the patch really kill my BV, or was it something I did?
Invisigoth:
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 08, 02:59:11
Ah, I probably should have been clearer about the music stutter and lag bit. Normally everything runs pretty smoothly, all crappy specs beside. It's just that since BV sometimes (or more like a lot of times) when I enter buy or build mode the music freaks out and sounds like a broken record. Then it gets all laggy and just trying to place one item or whatever becomes quite difficult. The music stutter and lag hasn't occurred during regular gameplay though.
Why don't you just disable the buy and build mode music using the ingame audio options? You have to go into the buy menu song list and then unclick the button next to each song name. It's really easy.
Blueblood:
Thanks for all the upgrading tips, all. ^^ I'll definitely keep them in mind for when/if things around here stabilize.
Quote from: darcee on 2008 February 08, 04:07:58
I also get the "application has crashed and will now terminate" crash pretty rarely, and always have rarely since the beginning. Maybe you've just been lucky not to see it so far? I don't know. Speaking for myself, my computer is 5 years old now and I'm grateful the thing even boots up, let alone runs a game as demanding as Sims 2. Sorry I don't have any more insight for you.
Until today, the last time my game crashed was due to Pets. Every time I tried to adopt an animal via the phone my game would crash unless that was the very first thing I did. I just sorta gave up on adopting Pets. Not sure if it would work even now. And before that, the only crashes I experienced were when I was running base game on 52 MB of RAM, so I guess I have been pretty lucky. o.O
Quote from: Invisigoth on 2008 February 09, 04:17:09
Why don't you just disable the buy and build mode music using the ingame audio options? You have to go into the buy menu song list and then unclick the button next to each song name. It's really easy.
I'm not certain if the music is what causes the lag, but that sounds like a great idea. I may not try it out though, since I think I'm going to permanently uninstall BV.
I was feeling confident so I added BV back in the other day and even patched. Surprisingly enough, it actually ran. I played vanilla for a bit and everything seemed fine. The broken record and lagginess seemed to be gone. I threw in my downloads a little later and played around for a bit and still didn't see the evil lag and stutter. Yesterday I started up an asylum and played for a little while. Then today I try and start my game and instantly get the "The application has crashed. The application will now terminate." error. Deleting groups.cache didn't fix it, nor did moving my Downloads folder or whole The Sims 2 folder. I'm going to blame BV because I swear it hates me. xD
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 08, 02:59:11
I don't really want to bring up my personal life, but pretty much everything is not affordable right now.
Sell your ass.
Ellatrue:
I've been having some similar problems with BV. I think it's just a crappy EP. When I installed Seasons, everything actually worked FASTER. Not the case, here.
The annoying stuttering is just the lag from switching from play to buy/build. I sometimes get it, too. More ram?
Tigerlilley:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2008 February 10, 09:26:59
Quote from: Blueblood on 2008 February 08, 02:59:11
I don't really want to bring up my personal life, but pretty much everything is not affordable right now.
Sell your ass.
Thats your answer to everything!
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