Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
Dizzymental:
As I posted elsewhere, I've a suspicion that the no-cd/no-dvd crack that people are downloading with the torrent is buggy.
Lorelei:
Quote from: Dizzymental on 2009 May 22, 10:03:52
As I posted elsewhere, I've a suspicion that the no-cd/no-dvd crack that people are downloading with the torrent is buggy.
It does seem to be very touchy. It took four tries with WinRAR to get the iso usable by Daemon. What changed? Not a damn thing. Perhaps a file of that size is just prone to misbehavior on my machine. It also does not like being stored on one drive and extracted to another. It also requires a LOT of elbow room. Plan on double the space it claims to need, to be sure.
ETA: It also wants to phone home and sulks when told no, so more poking with sharp sticks is required.
Gelina:
I, of course, am experiencing technical problems when trying to play the game. This isn't overly surprising since I think my computer is infected with an evil spirit and has technical problems with everything. I'm on Windows Vista, Intel Duo Core E6850 @3.00GB, 4GB of Ram with an Radeon 3800 series video card, so my computer more than meets the minimum specs. I play in windowed mode and don't have Norton.
My problem began a couple days ago when I was building a new home for my sim family. After spending 45 minutes and 2 years' worth of patience, I finally got to the point of putting the final touches on and the game suddenly closed. No error message, no computer crash, the game just closed. I tried restarting the game and it wouldn't load - it would start to load and then immediately close. So I rebooted, had a few drinks, and tried again. This time the game loaded, but I had no graphics other than the cursor arrow pointer. The music was going and everything seemed to be working, but my screen was black.
I then uninstalled and reinstalled the game and everything worked fine graphics wise. But now, I'm experiencing random game closing on more regular intervals. Sometimes I can play for an hour with no problems, other times every 2 minutes the game shuts itself down.
This behavior most closely reminds me of how TS2 acted when I was infected with Securom, but that doesn't seem possible with a torrented version.
jolrei:
Quote from: Gelina on 2009 May 22, 12:18:33
This behavior most closely reminds me of how TS2 acted when I was infected with Securom, but that doesn't seem possible with a torrented version.
Unless you are running without a no-DVD crack. Then it would be entirely possible.
carliegirl:
Did anyone get a box saying that you have to connect to the internet while on the loading screen? And if so, how did you get past this? Also, I am on a Mac if that helps.
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