Game won't start.
JennyJenny:
Okay, this started about a day ago, and I have looked through the Google results and the results here on MATY and I am still at a loss.
The issue is this: My game won't start up. I have tried from my desktop shortcut, and from inside the TSBin folder. I even tried starting it with the installer. The hourglass comes up, flips once or twice and then vanishes. When I use the Task Manager, it tells me that Sims 2 is running as a process, but under applications there is nothing.
The only thing that I can think of that I have done to change things as far as my system or game is concerned is I cleaned up my DL folder, I deleted groups.cache and I ran the SimWardrobe's Hack Conflict detector. I clean my DL folder out fairly often (from the Clean Installer, is this a no-no I didn't know about?), I have deleted groups.cache a couple times before, and I have never run the HCD before (and I didn't find any conflicts anyways). Oh, and I also ran Jfade's Wardrobe Wrangler one time, but I didn't change anything and have since deleted it from my hard-drive.
I really hope I don't have to re-install because I find it to be a pain (who doesn't, am I right?), not to mention that since I use backed up versions and I have kind of forgotten how to do that it will be worse than usual.
Anythign else I should try before I resort to that?
Roux:
If your latest EP/SP was anything released since H&M, and if you're playing with the game disk, then the most likely culprit is SecuRom. Check out the SecuRom thread stickied in the Podium for instructions on how to remove it.
rampancy:
I've been seeing this crop up in my game too, and I've done some googling and found a few other cases. There are two strange things about it:
- It didn't happen before I put my only custom content (Twojeff's college adjuster) in the folder
- It'll freeze exactly like you experience, and have to kill the stalled program about 2 or 3 times and then it'll load.
- Ever since it first happened, I no longer get the Intro Video besides the EA one.*
By my experience, this doesn't feel like a copy protection issue. It's like the game just stops loading once it's being loaded.
* I think I might have figured it out, or something similar. Ever since this error, I've not gotten the intro video. Now, it always took my computer a couple minutes after I cancel out of that video to get to the next loading screen. Maybe, because of this error, the "freezing" is actually loading the game in the background, and just not using the HD at all? It's a stretch, but it does seem like more than a coincidence.
JennyJenny:
Quote from: Roux on 2008 August 03, 16:05:49
If your latest EP/SP was anything released since H&M, and if you're playing with the game disk, then the most likely culprit is SecuRom. Check out the SecuRom thread stickied in the Podium for instructions on how to remove it.
I have been using no-cd cracks since about... BV I think, maybe Seasons. But I'll go look in the Securom thread anyways, maybe it got on there somehow. In fact, now that I think about it Securom may be more likely, since I got the Spore Creature Creator a couple weeks ago, and it uses a disc. I will have to go check that out.
<rant>
I hate how Securom seems to be able to linger on your computer, not causing problems. Then BAM issues crop up like mad. Grr.</rant>
jsalemi:
Quote from: JennyJenny on 2008 August 03, 16:59:19
In fact, now that I think about it Securom may be more likely, since I got the Spore Creature Creator a couple weeks ago, and it uses a disc. I will have to go check that out.
Yup, that's your problem -- the Spore thing comes with suckrot.
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