EA/Maxis has found the Nvidia problem!
unregister:
Mentioning of "memory leaks, When securom began causing significant problems related to BV, I started reading various sites that were about different games and their problems with Securom. Repeatedly, was the mention that Securom caused "memory leaks". This was also posted numerous times on the EA Games site as one of the complaints about the use of Securom in Sims2 games. Of course EA denies this as they do no wrong.
HystericalParoxysm:
Smells very very fishy... If this were truly Norton related then the useshaders cheat wouldn't do a damn thing to change it - yet in many cases, that resolves the problem.
Perhaps it's two (or more) unrelated causes resulting in the same or similar symptoms... but if this is a Norton issue, why would it only effect computers with nVidia graphics cards? Surely having an ATI doesn't automagically protect you from memory leaks...
I agree with the previous poster whose name I'm too lazy to look up... it's irresponsible for them to release this info while having tested it on one and only one computer, and ignoring the other fixes which are known to work or at least help.
morriganrant:
Quote from: Sivany on 2008 March 16, 14:19:55
, as far as I know anything that has the name of your windows account under the column user name can be closed down with the exception of explorer,
Explorer can be turned off too. I always do to give my games a little more help. To turn it back on when you are done, just open up task manager, File> new task. Then type in explorer.exe and press enter.
KatEnigma:
You can't blame SecuRom for the memory leak because it's been part of TS2 since the beginning- long before they went to SecuRom. Srsly, people blame SecuRom for everything, and it's ridiculous and takes away from the things that it ACTUALLY does.
Yes, going through Black Viper's lists and turning off services that he says are safe will reduce the number of things you see running in task manager. The startup part lets you kill 3rd party aps from starting automagically, services.msc lets you kill WINDOWS crap.
70 seems like really a lot. I haven't tweaked my services since I rebuilt my machine, and I only have 37.
snapdragon:
Quote from: Lorelei on 2008 March 13, 22:16:30
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.
I had trouble downloading that tool so I did a search for Norton removal tool (or whatever the tool is called on 4shared) on google and got the tool on Norton's site. I downloaded and ran it (because I had just removed Norton from my brand new laptop yesterday and wanted to be sure that everything was removed from the system) and when I rebooted, I couldn't access the internet. The diagnostics tool said that there was another firewall blocking my access. I had to do a system restore because tech support didn't know how to find the rogue firewall and disable it, or whatever would have had to be done. I guess I should have left well enough alone.
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