EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
FourCats:
Quote from: CrabOfDoom on 2008 March 13, 17:15:40
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.
I wonder how that got on my computer?
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Kristalrose on 2008 March 13, 22:21:12
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.
Artifacts and distortions that appear over time are generally a sign of overheating.
SnootCB:
Norton is NOT the cause of the nVidia BSOD problem. At least, not the true nVidia BSOD problem that they are supposedly trying to fix (the one that is solved by turning off shaders, not having anything to do w/ overheating, low system specs, or outdated drivers). My computer meets/beats all system requirements, does not overheat during gameplay, and has all updated drivers. I used to get the crashes about 20-30 min into gameplay, until I started using the boolprop useshaders off cheat. I do have Norton installed, though I shut down all unused programs during gameplay so that nothing is running but the bare minimum to keep Windows alive. I STILL get the BSOD with shaders on regardless of whether or not Norton or any other program is running. This is a bullshit excuse from Eaxis, and the problem will never be fixed by them. I finally put the shaders cheat in my user startup file.
Lum:
I've been lurking here for some time, and I've always been curious about these graphic cards horror stories.
I have a custom rig (which I nagged my dad to build) that's over 2-3 years old with Windows XP, Pentium 4 3.00 GHZ, 1GB RAM and Radeon 9600. It has always run like a dream with Uni/NL/OPB/Seasons and BV (no Petz -*I bite my thumb at thee, Petz!*). Everything's been gravy; I'm guessing it's because I have the habit of removing crap, even though I have 3 of 5 Orange Box games installed and two MMORPGs.
However, with Sims 3 coming, I fear I may need a new graphic card soon. (And a third hard-disk... running out of real estate too). Is the Radeon 9600 good enough or is it time to update? No FT at the time, lack of disk space and too many scary bugs dissuade me.
Educate me, MATY. Am I being paranoid or are my specs good enough?
nil:
What a funny soccer ball game?
A quite potentially multi-factor-based phenomenon is simplified as a soccer ball. The companies are just kicking the ball to whoever around in the game and pointing their fingers "vaguely" or "loudly" at the ones they kick the soccer ball to, leaving the customers wondering, discussing and wandering... :giggler:
A whole truth is that let's kick the asses of the involved. EAxis seems to be the more predominant one!
:P
I personally have no crashing problem at all running from the base game up to EP5 Seasons skipping EP4 Pets (I haven't) with my homely Norton wares and other security wares. It was EP6 BV with securom that successfully damged the DVD features of my DVD-RAM burner and cause frequent loading failures (say, ~5% loading success rate)!
Most of the hardwares of my present PC wwere made in 2004.
PC specs:
XP pro Eng, 1 Gb Geil DDRAM 400, Nvida 5700LE, Norton Internet Security 2004 with Norton AV, some other security tools.
Just in case that might be related:
I've only disabled or nullified a few programmes in the my copy of the OS winXP pro:
1. MSN and its explorer uninstalled and nullified
2. MSN messenger nullified
3. printer port disabled
4. address book nullified
5. MS outlook nullified
6. windows CD burn disabled
7. etc... a few more minors
I cleared up some junks like media in the help and wmp and a few others.
It seems the RAM used is a critical thing according to Simsample.
So, what were hers at that time when with problem and at the time when she solved the problem?
In other words, what are the working range for RAM sizes?
"boolprop useshaders off" can be useful?
Does that mean the shader codes are really in trouble especially to grade which video card can read or use certain functions :P They could have made more fallback settings in EP5 Seasons for video cards like mine. :(
I guess they could have pressured the market too much and/or been really careless on the graphical coding parts. Nvidia may not have been perfect, but the latter seems doubtless. :P
Carrigon,
lol just in case,
I wonder if disconnecting the file type association betwen the avi and divx at the folder otion menu (XP) or else can help avoid the such crashes.
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