CD HOT - screen frozen
kacidama:
I think a few of you know that I have had probs loading the game since having a new hard drive.
I've tried every which way and it won't get past the neighbourhood screen.
I removed all cc (literally the other night after one too many smirnoff ice and a very tired and swollen finger which pressed *Y* instead of *N* - feel free to point and laugh at this point as I accidentally overwrote the saved games and lost the backup - don't ask how ::))
We had spent 3 days solid downloading 000's of lovely items and *poof* all gone - well I know they were retrievable and I managed to get them all back but that isn't the problem. (I know I'm rambling but after the week I've had and today just topped it but that's another story :'( )
I have looked at previous similar threads but none of the solutions work
OK - I have a AMD Duron processor 1.3ghz and 512mb RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 and updated drivers version 6.14
C:\30GB Windows XP Pro installed and all programme files
F:\160GB My Documents only
All EP's and packs are installed and I have patched OFB and FFP.
I have tested display and sound with dxdiag and everything is ok
I have run the hack conflict and it reported 7 possibles - rpshack.package and comm-skilling.package so I don't think it is there.
I am worried that the CD gets very hot quickly - I thought at first it was the fan not working but I had it tested and the temp was within the normal range.
I tested running the game in both CD drives and the same thing happens. SC4 is ok in either though Bodyshop freezes too
I think that is all so if anyone has any other ideas what it could be....
I miss my simmies *sobs*
nectere:
I would try mounting it and running it through dameon tools then.
lindaetterlee:
nectere are you running a mounted one. I am and it seems the load time from start of game to the point that the blue screen comes up has increased with the mounted image. This is taking into account that i removed all custom content before testing load times. Does anyone with the cd's actually have this problem?
Orbit:
It sound like your computer & computer chips are getting old. If you reformatted your hard drive, then this could have excellerated the aging of your chips, causing them to slowly stop working. You can tell if your computer is getting old if the OS starts running slowly, or if Sims 2 runs more slowly the more times you start it up. If you're running on a brand new computer I can't tell you why this is happening. As for the CD getting hot, this should be a cause for concern because your CD drive could be putting so much stress on your CD that it could cause it to break.
nectere:
lindaetterlee:
No I havent noticed any slowdown at all. Without CC it literaly takes seconds to get to the hood selection screen. Something like 20 seconds at most I believe I recall.
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