Crashing on Startup Take Two
akatonbo:
I've had this problem a couple of times, and I'm not actually sure how I solved in the first time.
When I start up Body Shop, sometimes it doesn't come up. Usually I've killed the process because it obviously wasn't working, but the most recent time I've waited and eventually it came up with a "The application has crashed. The application will now terminate." error message.
I've tried deleting groups.cache. I've also deleted cigen.package, and last time that MIGHT have been the thing that worked, but this time it didn't help.
Last time around, I tried pulling all my custom content and it worked, but the standard trick for putting in some of it, then if that batch works taking it out and putting in a different batch, etc. etc., didn't isolate any culprit, and eventually it just started working again.
I have rebooted.
It was working just fine yesterday (I downloaded a couple of new hairstyles and checked them out in Body Shop. I have just removed the couple of things I could find that I downloaded since the last time it was working, and that hasn't helped.
The error log is attached, if that helps at all.
ETA: I just pulled all my downloads again, and all that happened this time was that it crashed much faster since it didn't have to try to load all that stuff first.
ETA2: Ok, NOT cool, the game is doing the same thing. It brings up the OFB splash screen and then immediately gives the same error message instead of going to the EA/Maxis logos.
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akatonbo:
And now I'm really mystified, because later I tried the game again (after reading my prior thread on the subject, and being completely unable to find any sign of the autorun file that MxxPwr mentioned, but figuring that maybe there was something to Pescado's percussive maintainence technique) and the damn thing started (and I had to wait for it to load).
What the heck?
DrBeast:
Can you provide us with some computer specs? I'm mainly interested in CPU, amount of RAM, graphics card, and power supply wattage (though other info such as number of hard drives/CD-DVD media would be appreciated as well). Also, have you tried running any other demanding application?
akatonbo:
3.0GHz processor, 1MB RAM (had killed off almost all non-essential processes, though was running a couple of additional programs, which is almost always the case when I use the game and was also the case -- in fact I was running MORE additional programs -- when it did work), ATI Radeon X300 (128MB video ram). I don't know the power supply wattage; this is a pre-built computer (Dell Dimension 8400) and the video card was included. I've had it over a year now and been playing TS2 about half of that time. One hard drive (160GB with 21GB free), one CD/DVD-RW. I don't believe I own any other software that is even close to as demanding as TS2.
DrBeast:
Any anti-virus software running in the background?
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