What am I doing wrong? I really borked it and I'm desperate! :^(
snowbawl:
Just follow jolrei's advice on culling your downloads. If in doubt, back it up.
Have you taken a look at your event logs? That is how I knew my brand-new harddrive was about to asplode. Check out your Event Viewer to see what errors or warnings you might be getting. With that much CC, you can bet some is outdated, conflicting, or just plain choking your system to death. And you are right, the card could be bad.
Keep plugging away. You'll eventually get to the bottom of it.
Zazazu:
Quote from: Avi on 2009 April 15, 14:10:57
I am doing a binary search as I originally halved my beginning 60k. I broke up the 60k worth of CC after I took out all the mods/hacks I could fine into 10k sections and then 5k sections and started adding them back in 5k chunks at a time. Most of the time I have to half the 5k chunks because there's something still borked in there. It's easier for me to scroll down 5k's worth of CC rather than say 30k at a time in order to find a possible culprit, so that's why I've done it this way. It's just a little change to the binary search, but I originally halved them so I guess it still technically is as I continue halving when I find a problem. I also started with the oldest CC first. I've taken out about 300 possibly corrupt/broken files and put them in their own folder. I have about 15k worth of CC left to put back in, so I have 1/3rd left to go.
In the end, as long as you are testing bits and then clearing them, it still works. However, this method is taking you way more time than a standard binary search will. And really, there's no reason why you should even be looking at the file names while you're shuffling. Just rip half out. Test for crash. Move. Rip half out. Test. Move. Rip. Etc. When you get down to the last file, that's when you pay attention.
Avi:
snowbawl: I just took a look at the Event Viewer and noticed this very weird application error The Source is Ci and the Category is Ci Service. I have no idea what that is . . . But my computer just spontaneously rebooted on me while the game was loading . . . I came back up and it was gone and appeared to have restarted. :^\ I have many of these "Ci Service" errors in the log and I wonder if they correspond with crashes of the game . . . Too early to tell right now. Right before the error is also shows Info that CI starts cataloging c:\system volume information\catalog.wci and then the error must be that it can't do that.
Looking at the link Microsoft's Help & Support center provided I got this: CI stands for Catalog Indexing. Something is wrong with the this function in the OS apparently . . . Is there a way I can turn this off or change when it does this? Any ideas why this would be happening or what could be causing it? If what I suspect is correct, it only seems to be doing this when the game is on. I'm looking at the error help message and it says that the reason this happens is that the files in the listed directory might be missing from the index and I should do a manual scan. WTF? Why should I need to do this at all while my game is running?
I don't know if it was LiveUpdate or what also that also interfered . . . I have changed the settings on many occasions for Windows not to automatically install updates but yet it keeps doing it. :^[ It just updated and rebooted last night for example.
Zazazu: If my method is taking longer and there's no advantage, then I'll just do the half method only for the rest of the content. I'll have to throw it all in one folder first though before I go moving it in. Folders shouldn't be interfering with anything right? I know at one point certain CC couldn't be put in folders but I think that changed after Pets so that everything can be put in folders
snowbawl:
Bah, server interruption...*shakes fist* forcing me to rewrite my post.
A quick google reveals that CI errors are produced when files can not be indexed (made available for quick viewing/finding), for various reasons. These errors are sometimes linked to System Restore. Without an Event ID, there is not much to go on. If you feel like delving into it, google your EXACT error(s) and wade through the various tech forums. You are not the first person to have this problem. And, just a quick google with nothing really to go on turned up solutions and a metric crap-ton of information. Your problem might very well have nothing to do with your new card or the game.
Also, yes, you can turn off your catalog indexing. Go forth and Google.
Magicmoon:
I had a huge problem when I enabled indexing for the Windows XP Search function. Once I turned it off, the problems decreased. It still took a ton of registry cleaning to get everything working smoothly again as it was crapping all over it. But just disabling it was enough to stop the stupid random reboots while trying to run The Sims.
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