Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
rsdworker:
Hey there again - i don't know why the game keeps calling home - i unconnected the internet and the popup always pops up through my play so how i can get rid it? - i followed the steps. ???
Tazon:
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?
Does your connection run through a router? Sometimes that much traffic will make it quit after a while; you just need to reboot the router to get going again.
Miellerie:
Quote from: Tacuitacitum on 2009 May 24, 08:28:14
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.
Thanks for that! By monitoring temperature, do you mean just go into the CCC and checking the temperature right after a crash?
I reinstalled the game and the display driver today and the message about updating didn't pop up :) And I managed to get 4+ hours of play before it froze on a splitting family processing scene (sister marries other guy and moves out). I am thinking of getting a new card and cpu because my computer's quite old now and hopefully I'll have no more problems after that :)
BeautyWitch:
Quote from: Tazon on 2009 May 24, 14:26:16
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?
Does your connection run through a router? Sometimes that much traffic will make it quit after a while; you just need to reboot the router to get going again.
Yes it does. I finally "woman- up" and got it done. lol.
OK so do I open all the files or just the ones that say WinRAR Archive; there are 31 named "rld-sims3? There are files with R40, R31 and so on; what do I do with those.
Tingeling:
I am trying to install the downloaded game from seedgames.org but I seem to have enountered a problem. I have mounted the ISO-file as one usually does, but instead of starting the install a window pops up telling me that there are files missing and that some of them may be copyrighted. After scouring this thread I also saw that some of the downloaded iso's had a file which you had to open through winrar. Well, I tried to open them but it was a no go. So, if anyone who has downloaded the seedgames.org version of the game could give me a helping hand I would much appreciate it.
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