Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
BeautyWitch:
After 50 mins I was up to %56 with 129 people trying to connect and my service shut down. Now I'm freaked out and too scared to try again :-[. I'm such a noob. Any tips on helping me how to be more awesome?
Tacuitacitum:
Just a heads up, I've had problems with X1950s overheating before (and erm... melting. Ahahaha. My 3850 is actually its warranty replacement since the store wasn't selling the X1950 some time later.)
People with ATI and their catalyst control centre, or RivaTuner or anything else that can monitor temps, I'd recommend doing so, especially if you have any of the cards that other people are having problems with or random crashes (In CCC, it's in the overdrive tab. Not all cards support it and my X1950 didn't, or I'd have spotted the problem long before it died.)
Hell no am I buying a new card to play Sims 3. My card should be sufficient and I'm not upgrading something that cost me £80 to play one game when all my other high spec games and even my 3D animation packages run just dandy on it. If I'd actually bought the game, I'd be demanding my money back because running my graphics card into the ground is probably damaging it. (That said, when I next update I'm not touching ATI with a barge pole unless they've fixed their OpenGL issues, even their professional animating rig cards have issues at the moment, and for £400+ that's just not acceptable.)
Miellerie, check that your drivers have installed correctly and are showing as 9.5 - a bad uninstall of the previous drivers can cause problems with new ones.
Ryslin:
ATI's 38xx series had some bugs on the core chip.
We also run into the fact that the game company is told "oh yeah it can handle it" then crash crash crash ..because the actual code used did not match the directx / nor the driver code.
Torrents can and are corrupted ..all it takes is grabbing the hash (ie the torrent) changing the file it is reading and uploading. It isn't terribly difficult.. and at this point I imagine there are some folks trying to get this release off the network.
Demon works just fine "IF" you use an older version and upgrade SPDT (file from microsoft or use google)
NOTE there are many programs out there that will interfere with most iso/cd image loading software just on principle. Ever played a DVD in your drive?
The custom little applet it installs to watch will do as much damage as securom.
Overly aggressive antispyware/antivirus/firewall will crash your game. If the game pings the internet port randomly for any reason, your firewall hopefully blocks it. If it does this by warning you it is blocking it ..said pop up can lock the game if there isn't enough memory to task switch. (has to go back to desktop to allow you to acknowledge the attempt at internet)
So in closing .. my rant is about the fact that this is probably not the game that is crashing.
I have left it playing now for 2 days.
Xp64
ATI -4850 512ram
4 gig system ram
4 core AMD processor (phenom 2 2.8)
plenty of hdrive space
Installed with dtoolslite 4.30.1 sptd 1.56
brownlustgirl:
Quote from: BeautyWitch on 2009 May 24, 04:05:34
After 50 mins I was up to %56 with 129 people trying to connect and my service shut down. Now I'm freaked out and too scared to try again :-[. I'm such a noob. Any tips on helping me how to be more awesome?
What are you scared of? The file is on the computer, when you start your internet up again, the medium you are using to dl the torrent will start back up at your last point. Shoot 56% in under a hour is a WIN! Took me 6 hours.
Ryslin:
Quote from: BeautyWitch on 2009 May 24, 04:05:34
After 50 mins I was up to %56 with 129 people trying to connect and my service shut down. Now I'm freaked out and too scared to try again :-[. I'm such a noob. Any tips on helping me how to be more awesome?
If you are using the program defaults (utorrent so on)you are likely pushing your internet connection to the max. There are settings to change upload/download speeds.
Standard dsl/cable 500 down , 12 up is perfectly fine. If you still crash out try reducing the amount of connections (also a setting). I think it defaults to 80, dropping to 50 might help.
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