TS2 still freezing after SecuROM
ZephyrZodiac:
If you have stuff left in your registry, that would quite likely be the problem, it never, ever, pays to delete Sims games, or uninstall them through the Control Panel. I'd suggest you uninstall everything you can, then download the trial version of jv16 Power Tools (which will work fine with two processors) run the complete registry clean option, and then use the Registry Manager option to make sure there are no Sims entries left, after which anything else that failed to uninstall can be deleted manually. Then, when you reinstall, it would be worth doing it in stages, and checking that first the base game and then each EP is working as it should.
Telcara:
Thanks Zephyr. I removed two things I found for BV and couldn't find anything else Sims-related. Didn't solve my problem though.
I'm currently only having the base game installed on D with the My Documenst folder moved to D. No other changes done to the game. Takes about 30 mins or so for the game to freeze, and no one seems to know the problem...
ZephyrZodiac:
Well, I have the same graphics card as you, plus the same amount of RAM, and I'm not getting these problems, although there are others, but this is a new PC and therefore a completely new install. Out of interest, what AV and Firewall are you running? When I got this PC it had AVG and Zone Alarm installed, but I couldn't stand them, I kept being brought back to the desktop every time AVG decided to update, and since it was the free version of both programs I couldn't configure either of them. So, I removed them and went back to using Avast! which never gives me these sort of problems, plus Windows Firewall - nothing nasty ever got through when I was using these before, so I shall just keep my fingers crossed that this is still going to be the case!
The one problem I do seem to have is that if I save a lot and then try to exit the game, it occasionally crashes on exit, but so far it hasn't caused any problems with my sims' files so I shall just wait and see if something hits me between the eyes and tells me what's causing it - it seems to be a memory problem of some kind, and I think probably I just try to exit before everything is properly saved.
I've also occasionally had a freeze, but I think that's due to the mouse that came with the PC, I've had to install it in the USB slot, so maybe it's something to do with that, but it won't work in the normal mouse connection, whereas my old mouse works fine from there, so I think I'll just put the old mouse back if it keeps happening.
If you are still having problems with just the base game running, then I think there may still be stuff left over somewhere from either your original install, or from SecuRom. I'd suggest you check yourself to make sure, just in case something has been left in.
Telcara:
No AV and Firewall, so that can't be the problem. The old computers I used to play on had Zone Alarm and when disabling it the game worked faster.
I always save at the same time as when I exit, not before and then exit... Does saving when exiting make your game crash as well?
Well.. as I can't go to the desktop its def not the mouse, everything is simply non responding.
I've checked the stuff in the registry just as you told and took away all Sims related I could find. Everything has the name Sims included in the file name right? I'll make a check for SecuROM leftovers.
ZephyrZodiac:
Yes, I'm pretty sure there's only one registry entry for each EP = Base game and if you use a registry editing program they should display the full name of that EP etc. One thing I will say about EAxis, they don't clog your registry with half-a-dozen different entries for each one.
I think I will try your suggestion of saving and exiting at the same time and see if it makes a difference - I tend to think it's due to the graphics card memory being overloaded, though, as when I've checked just minutes before, I can still have about half my available RAM still available!
Have you tried reinstalling to your C Drive, and just keeping My Documents on the D Drive? I don't know how big your C Drive is initially, but maybe there's stuff there that you don't use that can be cleared out. Also, provided your PC isn't throwing any non-sim-related problems, it might pay to use diskclean to get rid of most of your restore points if you haven't done so already, as they can use an enormous chunk of a small hard disk. Also, you can save a little more space by checking for useless other language files in programs that you use that may not have given you the option of whether or not you needed them (Sims included! - and in every single EP too. I've removed them in the past and never had a problem from doing so, just so long as you leave in the files for the language you are using. You can also move part at least of your paging file to the D drive. Making it non-dynamic also helps, as you don't get lag every time Windows decides to increase/decrease the size of it. Paladin has a tutorial which includes how to do this, plus some services that can be disabled etc., over at www.simwardrobe.com which I found very easy to understand.
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