Crashing on Startup Take Two
jsalemi:
I had the crash on startup happen recently, and it happened even though I moved my downloads folder out of the sims 2 directory. I looked at the error logs, and it turned out that something in the actual game files themselves got corrupted, and the only fix was to reinstall the most recent episode (which in my case was FFS). That solved the problem.
akatonbo:
Quote from: DrBeast on 2006 June 07, 12:40:14
Any anti-virus software running in the background?
Might be some piece of some MacAfee product still running in the background, but that hasn't changed at all recently.
DrBeast:
Hm. Anything new you installed prior to this behavior? Drivers, for example.
akatonbo:
Nope. The only change I've made recently (and you are probably entitled to smack me for not mentioning it sooner, but like everything else it has no identifiable correlation to the problem) is messing with the memory paging settings a little as per Hegelian's comments in the PC upgrade thread.
The first time I made any changes was approximately around the same time as I first had trouble with Body Shop, but changing the settings again never affected that problem; even after I put them back to close to what they were originally, the problem continued for quite some time afterward, and then eventually went away on its own (about the same time I tried deleting cigen.package, but since that didn't help at all this time it was probably just coincidence). I never tried the game that time around, just Body Shop.
This time around I haven't touched the paging settings since the last time.
jsalemi, I'd be tempted to reinstall if I were still having the problem, but the maddening thing is that it keeps going away on its own, with no apparent connection to anything I have done. I did post my error log, though, and if it happens again I can post the one from the game itself as well.
jrd:
Looks like it's crashing when it tries to build the shaders. Try installing a different videocard driver, and before launching TS2 again first delete your MyDocs\Ea Games'\The Sims2'\config folder to force a re-evaluation of your hardware.
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