Grief, woe, despair and hideous black screens
Orikes:
I actually experience a somewhat similar problem, though it's not clockwork like yours. Sometimes I can play for hours upon hours without a problem, and sometimes it'll freeze up 30 minutes in. I've gotten into the habit of saving regularly.
What happens is that everything on screen will freeze, but I can still hear the sounds. Then a moment later, the screen will go black, then that Sims blue. I'll get the Sims hourglass turning and everything will pretty much be frozen. Occasionally I'll get the error noise. Once in a great while, I'll get an error about the display adapters that vanishes too quick to be fully read. The only solution is to hold in the power button and shut it off, waite five seconds, and start again.
Sims2 is the heaviest graphic game I play right now, so I don't know if this would do it with anything else. Neverwinter Nights 1 runs just fine.
ElfPuddle:
Mine does the same as Orikes....see the other threads.
I wish I had a solution for you, Mrs. H., but "saving frequently" (as in every sims 1/2 hour) is the best I've come up with. Strangely, this didn't happen with my old crappy card & driver. I upgraded because it couldn't handle OFB. *sighs and shrugs*
J. M. Pescado:
Try putting the old card back?
ElfPuddle:
As strange as it sounds, I'd rather deal with the BlackSODs than the old card of crappola.
Scratch:
I has a similar problem. The game would minimize to the desktop after about 20 mins... almost every 20 mins... I gradually figured out it was my power management settings.
So, i opened up my control panel, went to the power settings and saw that my monitor was configured to turn off after 20 mins... so, i turned off all my power settings, hibernation, standby, etc. and chose "never" for my hardware settings. Fixed my problem.
Even though the monitor wasn't going off and i was playing the game, the stupid pooter had a mind of it's own. Take a look at your power settings and change everything to "never" and then play the game.... if that helps your problem, turn it all back on and see if the prob comes back...
just a thought....good luck :)
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