Graphic card problem?
ravencrow:
I never had a problem with Vista until about three months ago. I bought my pc approx. one year ago.
I've looked everwhere, of course pc techs don't know a thing about "The Sims 2"... So my only hope is here and on MTS2.
I would love to be able to download default clothing and hairs for the base game. I think that would might be a great.
Howver, I only have eye's and skintones that are defaults, and I looked via google, etc.. and that didn't turn up anything. I know Warlokk has some default clothing, but they are for his body shapes.
I just don't know what to do now. I'll keep this here, and just wait... Maybe someone will know what exactly my problem is.
BTW, J.M. had a link on another thread about installing xp, instead of Vista, but that makes me quake in my boots just thinking about doing that, by my lonesome.
Thank you.
Simsbaby:
Here's a guide which show how to dual boot both XP and Vista. It's pretty easy. At least for me.
A good tip though, where it says how to shrink your Vista partition, don't do that. Instead open your start menu and right click on computer, then choose Manage. When that pops up pick Disk Management on the left. Find your C:/ drive (should be disk 0) and right click on the largest partition there. Choose shrink (as far as I know, only Vista has this) and free up at least 8GB. Then when installing XP you can use this space. The only problem with dual booting is it XP won't see its harddrive as C:/. This might confuse some programs. Don't forget to download your drivers first!
eccentricgnat:
Hi,
I have had 2 strokes so know what you mean about getting things done that used to be easy...now try going to this site:
http://www.annoyances.org/
On the left side of the home page is the site menu or site guide: Go down and click Vista
Do a search for the runrdll thing error you've been getting...See I told you my brain isn't on bright mode any longer...
This website saved my butt several times over the years. You may find the fix or leave a message and check back and see if you get an answer. Windows 2000 used to get that runrdll thing error....and there were sites where you could just download the replacement and put it on your pc...
I went to linux back in 2000 and now use linux and an Imac...so it's been along time since I've even used windows....but this site is still there and going strong. Also google the error and see what it gives you.
Just a suggestion. You will probably have to be administrator to install it. You might try installing the sims in "safe mode" if vista has such a mode...Safe mode doesn't have as many files to conflict with the installer of your program you are trying to install. Go on line again, google start vista in safe mode and see what you get...I don't know if you can still do that but it just might work.
My son has to install some games in safe mode on his windows 2000 machine...Yup we stopped at windows 2000 sigh...
ravencrow:
Hi eccentricgnat,
Thank you for that very nice post. :)
I stopped getting the the error messages, but it's still the same regarding the weird "Newspaper" look.
I'm thiinking I might just have to dress and change hairs on approx. 140 female townies...gad! Thank goodness for the insiminator...
I just really want to know what is causing this to happen so abruptly one day, and fix it. You know, it's either my pc, or I'm missing an important file/driver in Vista somehow.
You know, we did have a bad storm around that time. I went to boot up ,a nd it wanted me to use "Safe mode".
I am co-authoring a story with another writer, and I need to do my part... sigh.
Thank you eccentricgnat.
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