Game freezes at 5:59pm
Bane~Child:
Witch, you made me think of something related to what you have said.
Kukes,
Do you have any scheduled programs that run at this time? Spyware, automatic Windows Updates, Anti-virus scanners or other maintenance programs? If you do or are not sure about a schedule, disable them like Witch suggested just before you start your game. You won't need these if you are only playing the game and you can reenable them later. If you have McAfee's virus scanner, it will restart itself after about an hour, depending on your settings. if you have AOL installed on your machine this is also a problem - it's files are spread all over the computer. Since I mentioned AOL, disable all IM's, too.
All of these things can seriously hinder the performance of your game and any time cut-scenes or other special events take place, it puts an extra burden on the memory. I also restart/reboot my computer right before I disable everything, to flush the memory.
Bane~Child:
Quote from: Kukes on 2005 August 16, 07:01:06
I'll use Cleaninstaller, etc. and see what happens - though I tend to be quite pedantic about what gets into my game, it's possible something's corrupted/conflicting.
While you are at it, check your Teleport folder, too. There should be nothing in there once the game is started and everything pending in this file has been loaded. Sometimes there are bits of things left behind that don't belong to anything there. If there is anything in this file after the game is loaded, then you should delete anything left behind.
One more thing, I also reboot my machine after I have used Body Shop or HomeCrafter Plus.
Kukes:
Wow. Thread explosion. So many ideas for me to try...
LK: I didn't even think of the day/night transition. I'll go and check it out ASAP, but I've noticed it doesn't freeze at 7am (but it could definitely be something to do with night and aging happening at the same time, and my computer dying from the strain). The only thing is, it's happening in Pleasantview only, no other neighbourhood has this problem.
clem: my graphics card info (128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro) - and yes, I recently got some Anti-spyware and ad-ware programs. I'll disable everything and see if it works.
JM: I'll go and try to get an error log now.
Bane~Child: That's another good idea. I'll disable/remove all the lights and see if it helps. And I do have one file in the Teleport folder, called (strangely) familySegmentForUpload.sims - I've never uploaded or downloaded a family.
witch: I defragged about a month ago, but I'm about ready for another. The drive Sims2 inhabits has nearly 30 gigs free, but possibly there's a lot of fragmented Pleasantview files.
Thanks everyone! Now to go and test out the game...
ZephyrZodiac:
If you have a family segment in your teleport folder, it's probably come in a house you've downloaded, and you're best off without it!
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Do you have any scheduled programs that run at this time? Spyware, automatic Windows Updates, Anti-virus scanners or other maintenance programs? If you do or are not sure about a schedule, disable them like Witch suggested just before you start your game. You won't need these if you are only playing the game and you can reenable them later. If you have McAfee's virus scanner, it will restart itself after about an hour, depending on your settings. if you have AOL installed on your machine this is also a problem - it's files are spread all over the computer. Since I mentioned AOL, disable all IM's, too.
I think the 5.59 referred to is 5.59 in the game (sim-time) not 5.59 real-time!
Kukes, it might also be worth running Chkdsk before you defrag. Also clear out your caches and generally do everything you can to (a) increase your hard-drive space and (b) to make sure your PC is as healthy as possible.
witch:
The groups.cache file is a database sort of file, lives in the sims2 folder under mydocs I think. One of the Maxoids said this could be safely deleted as it can become corrupt. I have safely done this a number of times. The game just generates a new groups.cache at start up.
I have read that the objects.package can become corrupt, I don't know if there's a way to fix that.
Creating a new sims2 folder and copying your neighbourhood over might also help.
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