Grief, woe, despair and hideous black screens
J. M. Pescado:
Actually, you do need 2 GBs of RAM to play this game. Most people have a ridiculous amount of CC, and as you should not exceed half the amount of RAM you have in CC, you need more RAM.
gethane:
No, I'm sorry Pescado, you don't. It's NICE to have 2 gb. But you shouldn't NEED it. And I'm speaking SPECIFICALLY about this goddamned nvidia, blue screen, hourglass, black screen problem. And I'm a bit testy about it.
I've built over 1200 computers. I worked as a computer builder in a retail computer store for 2 years. After than I managed 300 computers for a university library system (with 9 branches) for 3 years.
I'll speak slowly. If.. you .. want .. to .. fix .. the .. specific .. problem .. I am .. speaking about .. Buy .. an .. ATI card. There is currently no guaranteed fix from Nvidia or EA. The 2 GB of memory does seem to mask the problem. But it isn't FIXING the problem. And, Nvidia doesn't seem to give a shit about it. I contacted them 6 weeks ago, and they never have bothered to reply. And we all know EA isn't going to give a shit, since they don't care about their OWN coding.
astraled:
The ATI problem with Civ IV was worse than the Nvidia problem with the Sims 2.
If I don't see a problem, it's not a problem :D. I don't care if it's fixed officially or not, my game works. The newer drivers do work with the newer cards. My card and my driver are about six months old.
I'm up to 4 1/2 gigs of CC, thanks to PMBD :-*. Guess I better buy more RAM, it's easier than deleting all the stuff I hate.
ElfPuddle:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2006 November 26, 05:36:45
WTF is an "S3G UniChrome"? Is that even a graphics card? My Linux box made of recycled parts and running in console has a better card than that.
It's a built-in excuse for a card that came in my HP Preario. I told you it was crap. :P
gethane:
Quote from: astraled on 2006 November 26, 22:39:28
The ATI problem with Civ IV was worse than the Nvidia problem with the Sims 2.
If I don't see a problem, it's not a problem :D. I don't care if it's fixed officially or not, my game works. The newer drivers do work with the newer cards. My card and my driver are about six months old.
I'm up to 4 1/2 gigs of CC, thanks to PMBD :-*. Guess I better buy more RAM, it's easier than deleting all the stuff I hate.
I don't see how a problem that was fixed by an official patch is "worse" than a problem that is getting no serious attention from either EA or from Nvidia. Seems to me that something that has been unfixed for over 6 months is worse than a problem that was quickly fixed by an official patch.
I think its great that the game works great for you now. However, I do have problem with telling someone else that to fix their nvidia problem they should spend EVEN MORE MONEY, on a new nvidia card and then even more on more memory, to fix a problem that's easily fixed by getting an ATI card. I mean, if you are spending all that money anyway, might as well NOT throw it at a company that doesn't care that their game doesn't work with the Sims 2 OFB expansion. Ultimately, yes, its the game company who should be making sure that their game works with the only two video cards out there (for all intents and purposes), however, EA is totally unresponsive to the Sims community. Other games get patches in hours, days, and at most a couple weeks. We wait months for a Sims patch. So that leaves it up to Nvidia. And they don't give a shit either.
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