Freezing on Start-up of Game
Orikes:
Tonight, I got home from work and Sims2 (with all expansions, including FFS) would not start up. It would freeze in the load up screen. The music would keep going like everything was normal, but the screen was frozen and it wouldn't load up. Left it for five minutes and it was still on the same loading message (you know, the reticulating splines type thing).
Things had been running fine with the game until this past Thursday when I had a couple of crashes. I've been playing a little more cautiously since and haven't had one since Friday.
I've tried uninstalling drivers and intstalling new ones, but I'm guessing that doesn't have much to do with the game loading up.
I've also tried taking the disk out of the machine to make sure it doesn't have any schmutz on it.
Any advice on what to try or look at? The computer is only a couple of months old, but it was put together pieces-parts. I'm wondering if its possible to copy the disk contents to the harddrive and run the game from there to rule out a problem with the disk/dvd drive.
yetyak:
That happened to me on Saturday, I removed the download folder to test for a bad download. Put them back in subfolder at a time (there's over 200) and started it up. By the time the last folder was in, everything worked fine. No bad download, no explanation either.
Orikes:
I seemed to have gotten it working, and smoother than it has been running. I basically disabled all other programs - ran msconfig and disabled all unecessary services and all start-up programs. Game came up fine and ran smooth as a nooboo's bottom. I have no idea what could have been causing the problem, but I guess I'll slowly turn things back on and see what's what.
As a side note, is it okay to make subdirectories in the downloads folder? Can I make a 'hacks' folder and a 'furniture' folder and still have the game read the content? (so it would be c:/.... sims2/downloads/hacks and c:/.... sims2/downloads/furniture?
Emma:
Yes, you can do that. You can have a seperate folder for bodyshop content if you have NL or later :) If you do not, those downloads have to be left loose in the download folder.
yetyak:
I have some that are 4 and 5 subfolders deep. The only problem I've had is that the hack conflict tool won't read the hacks that way. Moving them back out fixes that problem.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page