My Game is Bork, but I'm pretty sure it's not my fault.
Gastfyr:
I have been so frustrated with the Sims 2 lately. I can't even play because it takes about 5-10 mins to even load up the stupid game (that's just to the neighbourhood selection screen btw) and then when I finally manage to get into a lot, I can play for maybe 5 mins and then one of 4 things happen:
1. I get "The application has crashed. The application will now terminate"
2. The game just "blinks" out of existance sending me back to the desktop with no popup or anything, just the game closing itself for no apparent reason.
3. I get the Blue Screen of Death and have to restart my entire computer
4. My computer simply restarts itself, skipping the BSD entirely.
Today I was at my wits end, so I decided to try to see if CC was the problem, even though I was pretty sure it wasn't. I have been having this problem forever, it just gets worse sometimes. So I was pretty sure none of the hacks were at fault, but maybe some really old clothing or hair mesh was? So I took my entire Downloads folder and put it on the desktop, then put a new empty downloads folder where it used to be and moved only the 100% Awesome AL approved hacks (including the newest version of AL fixes) into that folder. So I had no custom hair/clothes/objects or anything. Not even simple recolurs of Maxis stuff.
I started up the game. Timed it, btw; 5 mins from clicking "play" on the launcher until it finally got to "OMG u haz Hax in Ur Game!!11" (you know the pop-up I mean; the one that asks if I'm 100% sure I want to allow this CC to be enabled and all that). I went into a lot I was building, had to chagelotzoning to res from apt, exited the lot and didn't even get to go back in because #2 happend (see above).
Now, obviously, I am not awesome, so I could be wrong, but from this test I concluded that none of my CC is at fault since the only CC in my game were Awesomeware and the stupid game is still bork.
Can anyone help me or at least point me in the right direction?
ETA: Here are my computer's specs
It has 2 gigs of RAM.
AMD Athlon XP 2200 processor
Nvidia GeForce 7600 ST video card
1 80 gig and 1 250 gig harddrives
eta (again): I'm using Window's XP Service Pack 3
SJActress:
It sounds to me like your game isn't the problem, but your computer trying to handle the game IS.
I'm not awesome, so I can't tell you WHICH part of your computer...
Could we maybe get some specs? Anyone who could help you here will certainly need them.
ETA: If I'm not mistaken, the minimum specs were raised with AL.
Gastfyr:
Quote from: SJActress on 2008 September 30, 04:44:45
ETA: If I'm not mistaken, the minimum specs were raised with AL.
That would make sense; it's been so much worse since installin AL.
My husband is the computer geek; I really know very little about computers.
This is what he says:
It has 2 gigs of RAM.
AMD Athlon XP 2200 processor
Nvidia GeForce 7600 ST video card
1 80 gig and 1 250 gig harddrives
That's all he says. If I need to give more info; I'll have to pry it out of him since even getting that much was difficult. :P
vecki:
NVIDIA = BSOD. That's one thing. I also hear tales about Win XP SP3 having problems? But I don't think I ever had SP3 so I can't confirm. I shall search.
ETA - general discussion of SP3 here but no mention of Sims problems.
Something that might be more likely here.
Annan:
Is this not the nVidia crasch bug, then?
Just guessing, but seeing as the game crashes, and you have an nVidia card...
Next time you get the Blue Screen of Death, make sure to note down the error message. It might tell you what is wrong, or at least what your computer was doing before it died. Remember to turn off auto-restart (ask hubbs for help or google how, I don't know it by heart) so you actually have a chance at reading the BSoD.
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