EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
Zazazu:
GAIN is bad. Hella bad. GAIN killed my old laptop when he was just a week old.
Lorelei:
If you want to rid yourself of Norton, there's a NortWare Begone tool in my 4shared stash. Link's in sig. Got it from Major Geeks forum.
Kristalrose:
I find this all very interesting. I am also having problems with nVidia since I installed BV, but no BSoD, just a lot of graphic artifacts and distortions. They are much worse after a longer period of gameplay. I do not use Nortons, I use McAfee, and have always found it to be bloated and a major pain in my backside!
jsalemi:
I used McAfee for years, but the latest version really is too bloated (and too annoying -- I wanted antivirus, not a nanny!). Finally took the chance to dump it completely when I reinstalled XP, and switched to avast!.
ZiggyDoodle:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2008 March 13, 14:07:20
And yea, the whole Norton thing is bullshit -- their 'solution' only really applies if you're running the game with their minimum specs (in which case, you have more problems than just nVidia issues). On a dual or quad machine with at least 2gb RAM, the anti-virus software would barely make a blip in the amount of processing power and memory it uses, even with bloatware like Norton or McAfee. Better yet, of course, is to dump Norton/McAfee, and go with a good freeware antivirus (I use avast! and never had a problem with it).
Okay, I got home from work and fired up the computer the 12-year old uses. It's an old Dell Dimension 4100, maxed out with RAM (512). Windoze ME, Pentium III processor, an ATI Radeon 9200 card and Symantec SystemWorks 2005. Since I've disconnected the modem, the a.v. and ZA firewall were removed from the startup.
This old tub has the base game, NL, OFB, Uni, Pets - and against my better judgment, I gave into the pleas and added Seasons. I was surprised that Seasons even ran, but it does. There's plenty of CC and select hacks. No crashes, black screens, or other issues. Doesn't run the game fast, and I don't think the fishies can be seen, but the kid put in 40 fruit trees, spent days spraying, and managed to get a Plantsim, so she's happy.
Maybe the newer versions of Norton cause issues. Don't know. As suggested above, the screwups are most likely related to EAxis code. They have a long standing reputation for that.
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