Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
Rockermonkey:
When you mounted the game did you take the exe and launcher from the crack folder? If not then you will need to and then place them in (computer/(HardDriveName usually c)/Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/installdir\Game\Bin)
^ Think thats right, if not. Then keep close to the directions and find the similar folders. Rename the old launcher and exe, or delete it. then paste the two new ones in. DO NOT start the game with the launcher do it with the exe but not the launcher.
BeautyWitch:
There is no exe file in the crack folder. Only the launcher and the app to generate the key. There is however, a TS3.exe file in the 'bin' folder. Is this the one you were referring to?
Exiled:
So I've been torrenting more, and getting more crashes. Each crash takes about 2-4 minutes after it freezes up before giving me the BSOD (hence why I didn't get them before, when trying to get TS3 Reloaded, since I always just manually reset) and about 5 minutes to create a dump file before restarting.
My computer only crashes when I try to get massive torrents (5.6GB, 4 GB, 9 GB). For the last one, I tried to avoid the crash by by torrenting one TS2 stuff pack at a time, but it crashed was I was torrenting my third stuff pack (Glamour Life).
Here's the data. Can anyone tell me what the computer's trying to tell me? If a dump file is better, where can I find those? I'm running Vista SP1.
KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR
0x0000007A (0XC0415878, 0XC000000E, 0X0B2E6860, 0X82B0F7ED)
Ntfs.sys - Address 82B0F7ED base at 82A3D000, DateStamp 47918a96
morriganrant:
I feel as if I should come back and defend my card. My ATI 3800 series card is sitting at 60c. All through game play. I have allowed the game to remain on overnight (although tabbed) with no ill effects. The only crashing experienced is on one lot and since I had trouble installing the files, I assume that it is because of that. The seemingly random crash to desktop that I experienced before has not occurred again. I have had the game running and actualy up for at least 10 hours each day since I've installed it, I have no life. Anti-aliasing is maxed with no ill effect to sim hair or the trees. It was on when I first started the game and everything but the trees looked fine. We started fooling with settings, discovered that the pixelated tree issue was solved by fooling with the resolution, but by that point we had mutilated the sim hair. We played with the settings, got the sim hair back. The floating sim heads that appear for choosing actions still have no hair however(they were fine before I started all this). I am currently playing with every setting that I can, in game and out, trying to fix the problem. I have no idea what all we changed before.
The only other problem I seem to be having is with the benches in the cemetery. The card can not seem to find the texture overlay that they are supposed to have and instead gives them a nice pixely rainbow as a texture. The same benches on the Goth lot that I am playing are just fine. No other object seems to have this issue.
Once more I am going to state that I do not have the newest drivers for my card. Someone with my card and the newest drivers may have a different experience.
Quote from: BeautyWitch on 2009 May 24, 17:59:32
There is no exe file in the crack folder. Only the launcher and the app to generate the key. There is however, a TS3.exe file in the 'bin' folder. Is this the one you were referring to?
The file that is TS3.exe in the crack folder, that is the crack, what do you mean launcher? What is the file extension on that? The TS3.exe file in the BIN folder is the original. You want to replace the original .exe with the one from the crack folder. If your crack folder does not have one for some reason, there is a link in my signature. That link has the crack and keygen that came with my game rared up and uploaded.
Edit: the Adaptive anti-aliasing was causing the floating sim head-hair issue. My benches also have messed up distance textures, they're half-way complete up close, any further and the textures are garbage. Anyone know where the textures are stored and if it has to do with the CRC error I had while installing? This is not a GFX card problem, it is a file problem.
Ryslin:
You know I had horrible graphics problems with the original release of spore , and had a 38xx version ATI at the time. The only solution I ever found for the dreaded black line corruption was deletion/uninstall of the game and reinstall.
To be honest I never use adaptive Anti aliasing. ATI's catalyst ai is also a bit buggy. Manually set your anti aliasing, turn off the adaptive, turn off catalyst ai and see if you stabilize morriganrant
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SecuROM comes from more than just the Sims series, have other games installed Tingeling?
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Kernal crashes are something entirely different Exiled. That is the OS having a fit. Check your settings on your torrent downloader. I am sorry that I don't know that exact kernal error, my gut says you are running out of memory during task. Then again your memory could be faulty. Could be a bad sector on harddrive , could be that it is placing part of the download in a system area and pissing off VISTA.
Do a search on google with your kernal dump number and the OS and see what you get.
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