What am I doing wrong? I really borked it and I'm desperate! :^(
Avi:
Quote from: phyllis_p on 2009 April 14, 17:24:12
Personally, I'd do a careful binary search to weed out the offending items, and then try downloading them again from wherever or doing without them.
Thanks, phyllis_p. How would I go about doing a binary search? As of now I've run the Download Organizer, HCDU, Clean Installer and just doing a visual search to weed out suspected bad content and to seperate hacks and mods from regular CC. Is this something I can do in SimsPE?
Quote from: Jorenne on 2009 April 14, 18:02:53
I have an Nvidia GeForce 8500 1gb card and had BSOD issues with Vista and Norton, even with norton disabled. I had to uninstall it completely to make them go away. (New machine less than 4 months old now)
I may do that . . . I had thought to uninstall Norton but was hesitant to because I have 240 days left on the subscription so it seems like a waste of money. I may just do it anyways and see what happens.
I have edited the original post everyone into what I hope are more coherent paragraphs. *kisses?* X^D I'm sorry. My usual style of writing is very William S. Burroughs-like. I apologize again . . . *begs for forgiveness!*
phyllis_p:
You can find instructions on conducting a binary search in the FAQ, noob. You should have read this long ago.
I now officially point and laugh at you. Ha-ha!!
Good luck.
Chain_Reaction:
You may have a long road ahead of you. I have an ATI card (no its not amazing but it is supported) and I had never had my game crash till I got apartment life. I was building an apartment the first day I got it and clicked to swing the camera around and down she went. Anything after Bon Voyage seems to have massive memory leaks and is very taxing on the system and with 13GB of CC I can only imagine how your PC feels. Crashing with nVidia is a lot more common, but just pointing out the middle end ATI cards are starting to reject the game too.
Avi:
Chain_Reaction: I think you're right . . . It's already been what, 3 months now that I've been working on this? I want to start culling my CC but I don't know what all of it is so I sort of need to make note of it from the game (especially CAS stuff). I know there's really no way to do that with objects and build stuff.
I could compress it possibly once I get to a certain point but that gets sketchy if you need to update something that got compressed; sometimes objects get updated if they're messed up or what not. I wouldn't use the Compressorizer on any hacks or anything obviously. Anyways, that's for the future anyways.
I'm still probably going to get another ATI card, the best my system can handle. I only have PCI and AGP standard slots. I think the best it can currently handle is either the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or GTX. All the other cards I've looked at need PCI-Express, it seems.
The game has become pretty horrible in the terms of memory leaks and whatnot and it was always bad to begin with so . . . I guess I'm sadly used to that fact. Also the hour long full load time (from beginning to when a lot is loaded.) :^\
phyllis_p: I've BEEN doing a binary search. I didn't know the 50/50 method was also called a "binary search". I've read the FAQ, just not after 2007 when that bit about a binary search was added. I've been lurking a long time but never really wanted to post that much here (and I still don't). I guess it's time to refresh myself with it.
I just wanted to know if anything else could be done in case CC isn't the problem because doing a binary search with over 13 gigs of CC is a bit painful as you can imagine. Plus if that ends up to not be the problem in the end, what a massive waste of time. You're still free to point and laugh. :^P
jolrei:
Quote from: Avi on 2009 April 15, 12:16:09
Chain_Reaction: I think you're right . . . It's already been what, 3 months now that I've been working on this? I want to start culling my CC but I don't know what all of it is so I sort of need to make note of it from the game (especially CAS stuff). I know there's really no way to do that with objects and build stuff.
If you have all sorts of files with stupid number filenames, start with those. If you don't know what the file is, you don't want it.
If you think you might want it later, remove the files from your Downloads directory and save them in a separate folder on your drive somewhere (I keep a "Removed CC" folder in a backup section of my My Documents folder. That way you can safely remove it, but not lose it completely. Start by removing the files you don't "recognize" from the filenames, and see if your game works without them.
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