TS2 still freezing after SecuROM
Telcara:
Alright.. so, I posted on the BBS and someone told me to ask for help here instead but I placed the thread in the wrong area, here it is anyway:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11518.0.html
Been told to remove SecuROM which has been done but I'm still having the EXACT problems. This with all expanions up to Bon Voyage and the stuff packs family fun, glamour life, H&M and my original game is the Holiday Edition.
Computer:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Service Pack 2
AMD Athlon (tm) 64X2 Dual
Core Processor 6000+
2.99 GHz, 2.00 GB RAM
PAE (Physical Adress Estention)
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT
Memory: 512 MB
Very disapointed at the moment. Those games are worth more than 2000 SEK, which is about 333.45 U.S. dollars....
My brother thinks he's got rid of it all the SecuROM stuff and I'll try and make him check it one more time but I kind of trust him in such things... What else might the reason be?
Note: Tried it a second time by setting the processor affinity manually which appearntly didn't work as the game froze anyway but I noticed that the game was lagging quite a bit. (in choose neighbourhood in the beginning and during loading
J. M. Pescado:
Not sure what this "physical address extension" business is, seeing as you only haz 2 GBs of RAMs anyway, but check your drivers, because I had a very similar configuration of computer which ran just fine.
Telcara:
I'm sorry but which drivers do you mean? (showed your reply to my brother and he didn't get it)
DirectX and the graphics are updated. 2nd edit: sound and video is also updated.
I tried assigning one proccessor to the game, closing the process ctfmon.exe, boolprop usershaders off and also autopatch off but not sure if I got it into function (read now somewhere where it says its autoPatch off - as much as I remember its case sensitive. Would autopatch make a difference?). I tried the Monty Family in Veronaville and the game worked fine so I thought that had fixed it. Went to make a sim but when building his house the game froze.. might have just been lucky fo a while I guess.
Edit: That SecuROM is really gonehas been confirmed. Came out that the wrong no CD crack had been installed. I have the patch for BV so I'm going to install the patch version to see if that does any difference. Don't think it will but meh, desperate.
Telcara:
Got the correct patch (third one from gameburnworld) and assigned one proccessor to the game, closed the process ctfmon.exe and used boolprop usershaders off (still saw fish in the pond though, thought that would disable it?). My game survived for quite many sim days and froze on a community lot compared to usually froze just after a few game hours. Damn it, thought it was working normally.
Telcara:
Apologies for kind of spamming this thread...
I found that I had old stuff from the sims left on the C hardrive (my game was on D). The C harddrive is from the old computer... just thought that was strange as it allowed me to install the game anyway, even if it already existed on the computer? Anyway, I got rid of that... I knew it was from the old one because Celebration was included but not Seasons and BV. That didn't make any change to the game.
Went on a search for the groups.cache file and found it on C when it was supposed to be on D. Realized that was the leftovers from the old installation and got rid of the entire folder. Just before that, I had opened the game and changed the settings. I started the game and noticed that everything had been re-set and my test house was gone. I suspect that the game was using the files on C, it was really weird. Still didn't solve any problems.
Decided to get rid of EVERY sim thingy on the computer, was unable to uninstall BV and the original game and simply deleted them because I fear I'm too stupid to uninstall manually with the registry key and all (bet just doing like that wasn't that clever either). Installed the original game only and now it required to install some additional MB on C even if my brother had moved the My documents folder to D. Its still there but Mina Dokument (My Documents in swedish) is on C and it that's where those additional MB are located.
Started with the original only and game froze after a few sim days as usal. Should have tested it completely the first time, at least now its confirmed that it can't run any sim 2 game.
The main folders are and have been in the previous installs on harddrive D with 90 GB of free space. The additional stuff are on C with 8.9 GB free space.
Any possiblities that it can be related to the little space on C? However, that should be enough for the main game only, right?
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