EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
MistyBlue:
It's probably a combination of the factors; system specs, nVidia, and Norton. I have 6 computers in my house, only one of them has nVidia and only that one crashes. I chuck it up to the card and the lack of RAM in the machine. Turning off Norton doesn't help, but that is probably because the RAM is so low, it wouldn't run the game either way. And...don't think just because your machine is relatively new (a couple of years old) that it'll run the game fine. That computer is a Media Center PC, purchased in 2006. It's newer and it doesn't play the sims. nVidia causes graphics issues and crashes the game.
KellyQ:
My daughter has 1 gb RAM, a 6150 Nvidia card, AVG anti-virus, never disconnects from the internet or shuts down background processes and yet BV runs fine for her w/out any crashes.
I have recently added a second gb of RAM (for a total of 2), a 7600 GT Pro Nvidia card, AVG anti-virus, always disconnect from the internet and disable all background tasks and yet BV would consistently give me a black screen or crash.
I have never been able to play a game that I shelled out my hard earned money for, with a better system than my daughter's and yet EA wants to tell me it's my computer or a program that I don't even use. Riiiiiight.
KatEnigma:
Anyone who's ever left the game paused for a long time, say for overnight ::) , knows that the game has a memory leak. I can certainly believe that running Norton or McAfee makes that apparent much faster than if you aren't running it. That's not to say that people who aren't running them aren't running other programs- or that since this is an endemic Nvidia problem, that Nvidia itself is sucking up more resources than it needs. (Who knew that Catalyst, in all its suckitude, was better than whatever program Nvidia sticks you with?) It's a heck of a lot easier to "solve" this problem by telling people to turn off everything than to actually fix a memory leak that's been in the game since at least NL.
Also, BSOD crashes can be caused by all kinds of things. Maybe someone is crashing because of the memory leak, while someone else is crashing because of an underpowered PSU- I know someone who got a new Dell, and had random crashes playing WoW immediately, took it back, got a new one, and THAT PSU asploded on her. Do not trust Dell (or HP, or anyone other than yourself) to have built a computer with a PSU that can actually run your video card under full load. Another person could be crashing because of overheating. But because they all have Nvidia cards, they say "oh, the Nvidia/TS2 problem" and don't investigate it any further.
I'm running Nod32, which was designed to not suck up my resources. I've run with AVG and Avira, but got sick of the "Buy Me" crap you get from free programs that have pay alternatives. Nod32 is lighter, anyway, even if it's not free. And unlike McAfee, if I do ever disable it, it STAYS off, instead of trying to "help" me by turning itself back on. :P
Kazzandra:
Though really, it's no surprise that Norton Nazi causes things to crash. Hex, you can't even uninstall the thing without performing top-secret surgical procedures on your computer's software environment. And they now charge $50.00 a year for service, just so they can take up half a gig of RAM and ask you to authorize the computer to communicate with itself.
Yes, I am a former Norton user. I stopped using Norton Nazi when I updated my subscription last year and because of the daylight savings time change it told me that my subscription expired in 1900 (Y2K in 2007) , and I had basically wasted my money unless I wanted to uninstall and reinstall Norton, which required tinkering in the registry, etc. No, once I uninstalled Norton, I uninstalled Norton. And I haven't looked back since.
Oh, and I experienced the overnight game crashes quite frequently. I have 2 gigs RAM, an AMD Athlon 3200, and a Radeon 9600 on my computer, all hand picked by me for performance and afford ability. But when that was going on, I also had Norton Nazi. So, Maxis can point the finger at them and be justified, but I'm sure that's not all that's going on. Because now my game crashes if I leave it on for a more extended amount of time and it crashes eventually after days.
Bottom line: Symantec eats system resources for breakfast, but so does the Sims 2. BOTH should fix their problems!
CrabOfDoom:
Quote from: FourCats on 2008 March 13, 01:12:23
My spyware program just found, Grokster listed as a P2P, what is that?
Grokster is a peer-to-peer file sharer, like LimeWire or... um, LimeWire's actually all I use, so I can't think of the others. Anyway, that's what Grokster is, and if I'm remembering it right, it requires you to download something called the GAIN network with it in order to function. It leads to a lot of spyware. So much, that it once choked my old tower to the point that it wouldn't even start. I haven't used Grokster in years.
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