Error report...
ZephyrZodiac:
I have to say, I would rather pay £10 more per EP, wait three months longer, and get a product that didn't have to be constantly modified in order to get it to work properly! It wasn't like this in the old Sims1 days!
Tgdrysix:
So I get the reboot again and finally send in the error report and this is what it showed:
Error report summary
Error type Windows stop error (A message appears on a blue screen with error code information)
Solution available? Yes
What does this error mean? You received this message because a device driver installed on your computer caused the Windows operating system to stop unexpectedly. This type of error is referred to as a "stop error." A stop error requires you to restart your computer.
Cause A video adapter device driver
Computer symptoms A message appears on a blue screen with error code information:
STOP 0x000000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER
- or -
STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M
Action for you to take
We have analyzed your error report and there are two solutions for this problem for you to choose between.
+ Solution 1: Install the most current driver for your video card
Been there done that.....but what about this?
+ Solution 2: Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration for your video adapter
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display.
2. Click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced.
3. Click the Troubleshoot tab, move the Hardware Acceleration slider to None, and then clear the Enable Write Combining check box.
4. Click OK, and then click OK.
Note: This procedure prevents the display driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you may lose some display functionality and performance. Although you can increase the hardware acceleration settings higher than None to regain functionality and performance, these settings increase the chance that the issue will occur again. For maximum stability, leave hardware acceleration off.
What exactly will this do ? What type of loss of display functionally or performace are they refering to? In other words what can I expect to happen to my game play if I change these settings as recomended above? Thanks for any help it's always most welcome, Tgdry6.
syberspunk:
Hrm. Sounds odd. Have you tried uninstalling the video drivers completely and then re-installing them with whatever CD/disk that originally came with your video card? I would try this since it seems like your problems happened after updating to a newer driver and you are having problems rolling back.
Ste
Tgdrysix:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2006 June 13, 20:53:45
Hrm. Sounds odd. Have you tried uninstalling the video drivers completely and then re-installing them with whatever CD/disk that originally came with your video card? I would try this since it seems like your problems happened after updating to a newer driver and you are having problems rolling back.
Ste
The drivers I have are a "fresh" install....I don't have any older drivers to roll back to so I had to go to the site and look for one that was archived (sp?) .....that's the one it wouldn't let me roll back to....I forgot the message it kept giving me....my brother took a wack at it also and he's pretty computer savvy and he couldn't get it to accept the older driver either.....I was trying to get the 77.77 version , cause the 84.21 really doesn't play nicely with the sims2. This is a new pc a friend of my daughter's built for me....it was suppose to be awesome.....not to the sims anyway....lol.....tgdry6
jsalemi:
Quote from: Tgdrysix on 2006 June 13, 20:14:56
+ Solution 2: Manually decrease Hardware Acceleration for your video adapter
1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Display.
2. Click the Settings tab, and then click Advanced.
3. Click the Troubleshoot tab, move the Hardware Acceleration slider to None, and then clear the Enable Write Combining check box.
4. Click OK, and then click OK.
Note: This procedure prevents the display driver from programming the hardware incorrectly, but you may lose some display functionality and performance. Although you can increase the hardware acceleration settings higher than None to regain functionality and performance, these settings increase the chance that the issue will occur again. For maximum stability, leave hardware acceleration off.
What exactly will this do ? What type of loss of display functionally or performace are they refering to? In other words what can I expect to happen to my game play if I change these settings as recommended above? Thanks for any help it's always most welcome, Tgdry6.
As far as I understand it, that setting tunes down any settings in the graphics card that make things faster, like multiple pipelines. The only time I've seen turning down hardware acceleration help anything is with the cheap-ass computers they provide at work, which are built by some no-name company, where if the setting is at maximum, MS Word doesn't show any graphics at all. The problem is that whoever built the things put in video cards that are mismatched with the motherboard bus, and can suck in data faster than the bus can provide it.
So in your case it may cause a bit of lag in the game, and you may have to compensate by turning down some of the graphic settings, starting with shadows and reflections. You may also have to lower the view distances so the card doesn't have to work as hard drawing all that background stuff.
You haven't mentioned what type of computer you have, and what type of video card. That info would also help us help you. :)
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