EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
ZiggyDoodle:
Quote from: Lyra on 2008 March 13, 01:01:38
I want to say that people running Norton have it coming to them anyway. There's no excuse to have that bloater on your system when there are so many free and effective firewalls/anti-virus programs.
Huh? I've run Norton's a.v. program since my first desktop way back when (using version 2005 right now) and have never had any game issues (or virus). Just their a.v. and utilities, which I rather like. My firewall is ZA. No Nvidia card though; I run an ATI X850XT which does a dandy job.
Quinctia:
Norton seems to take up way too many resources for something that should be running in the background. Also, depending on what options you have, it can lock up so many things on the computer and make them inaccessible to the user. We have Norton on the computers at work, and it drives me nuts, but what can I do?
I've run (essentially) without an AV for years, and I haven't had a virus either. Products like Norton are mainly a) to make the end user feel real secure and b) to keep the really stupid from installing stupid crap on their computer.
The real nasty stuff circumvents AV stuff, anyway.
Madame Mim:
Seems I don't need to confirm it, but I will. I disconnected, turned off my virus protection and I damned well could have held my breath (almost). Barely two Sim hours in and my video card crashed so hard I had to do a forced reboot.
Zazazu:
Wait. You're saying EA was wrong? Blasphemy!
::) Surprise, surprise. ::)
Carrigon:
I've had this crash with Castaway. I do not have Norton and I turn off my antivirus when I play. I still get the same crash. I barely run any processes unless absolutely necessary. I don't think that's quite where the problem is coming from.
There could be a few other things doing this. Paging file too small, video or soundcard acceleration too high, some codec or other file conflict. I've already had crashes in FreeTime because of Divx's software. If a sim turns on the tv, Divx loads up and bang, looping audio and a crash out. I really haven't had the time to do anything about this yet, so I just get rid of the tv's on the lots for now.
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