Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
morriganrant:
Quote from: Ryslin on 2009 May 24, 22:58:48
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
Spore I had no problem with once I found a decent set of drivers. It was the newest drivers that gave me issue with Spore. Artifacing and such. I was also thinking that I would need to uninstall and reinstall. I was just debating on that anyway. Part of my issue installing seems to be that it thinks that the neighborhoods cache file is not the same size as the one found in the .cab files. If it gives this error again, I may just live with it for now instead of finding a new torrent, or else try to get someone to upload the original for me. My household is all paranoid with the lawsuits against the torrent sites and COX is known to send warnings to pirates. Until I get a new version of that file I can't know for sure what the crashing on that one lot is caused by. I have already turned off Adaptive Ati-aliasing(once I figured out that it was my problem) and have maxed anti-aliasing. Catalyst AI has been off since the beginning as it didn't appear to be doing anything for Sims3, and even on games I have where it does, it doesn't seem to do enough for me to bother.
BigFatLady:
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?
There should be the keygen file and a TS3.exe in the crack folder - that TS3.exe is the one that you need (look at the properties and the cracked one was modified 21.05.09 - if you have one from April, that is EA one and will be the one asking for registration)
TashaYarrr:
For those who think there may be an ATI problem -- and I'm not saying there is -- I'd be interested to know what happens if you do the following:
1) Completely uninstall current ATI drivers and Catalyst Control Center. Restart when you are asked to (important).
2) Install the latest "Display Driver Only" for your config from ATI (this should exclude the Catalyst Control Center).
This is just curiosity on my part.
Exiled, if you're getting BSODs while torrenting (if I'm understanding you correctly), you may have some kind of serious issue with your computer. I'd shut down all extraneous software (including your torrent software) and anything else living in your system tray. Then run a full virus and spyware scan. Beyond that, you may have to run Windows Repair or something (from original discs). Also try googling "0x0000007A" for more possibilities.
Oh, I also wanted to mention that after exhorting everyone to get new drivers, I was encountering some occasional PC-killing freezes (not crash to desktop or BSOD, just a slowdown and gradual death of video output). Usually when panning across town or loading create-a-style or something. I checked my drivers and they were about three versions old. :) Installed the latest NVIDIA WHQLs, no freezes yet (knock on wood).
BeautyWitch:
Quote from: morriganrant on 2009 May 24, 21:53:59
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.
Ahh, thanks a bunch, because my crack folder didn't have that file. It's up and running now
Exiled:
Quote from: TashaYarrr on 2009 May 25, 00:01:26
Exiled, if you're getting BSODs while torrenting (if I'm understanding you correctly), you may have some kind of serious issue with your computer. I'd shut down all extraneous software (including your torrent software) and anything else living in your system tray. Then run a full virus and spyware scan. Beyond that, you may have to run Windows Repair or something (from original discs). Also try googling "0x0000007A" for more possibilities.
Yeah, BSODs while torrenting. Confirmed three crashes.
I've done a bit of Googling and the techno level is overwhelming me. The 0x7a error is caused by "virtual memory paging file, disk controller error, virus infection, or memory hardware problems."
A site recommends running Autochk, but when I try, it says it cannot run in Win32 mode...wtf? So I can only run it when I reboot the computer and before it launches Vista? I've set Task Scheduler to run Autochk when the computer boots up, but I wish I had a more guaranteed way that I knew that the problem was over with.
Scanning my hard drive with NAV 2009 and will be running Spybot S&D when NAV finishes up.
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