Game Locking up with no error report
jrd:
I have my hiders and no crashes :p
If you're using a hider for an XP you do not have, you might run into this problem. If you lack either XMas pack, don't use the hider for it, as the game will try to load meshes it can't find.
Hegelian:
Quote from: theisz on 2007 February 14, 14:28:22
I'm sorry if you took what I said personal. It wasn't meant to be.
I didn't. ;D
I was careful to not say it absolutely has to be a hardware problem, but that the likelihood of it being one is high.
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The blue artifacts are not the flashing dark blue missing meshes of objects. I know what those are. The flashes I see are baby blue in color and streak and flash across the whole screen. It hard to describe, but it is not the missing mesh flash. It happens on an empty lot.
Hmm. If they are streaks, they're probably not related to water leaking through the surface texture (like when you place a lot containing a slope near a coastline). My partner has a problem with lines radiating from objects on a lot, which disappear when she rotates the camera, but it seems this is also not what you are describing (her Windows install is near death anyway; I think the imminent clean install will fix this, since I did not have that problem with the graphics board she is now using). I'm thinking you may wish to try a different release of your graphics driver—if you search MATY you can find discussions of which nVidia drivers work well with TS2.
I wish I could afford to put together a new PC! :'(
Current specs:
Intel D845PESV motherboard, socket 478
Pentium 4 2.8 GHz (Northwood); 533 MHz FSB
RAM: 1.5 GB PC2700 (Crucial)
Graphics: Sapphire Radeon X800GTO AGP unlocked to 16 pixel pipelines and slightly overclocked in BIOS, w/ Arctic Cooling Silencer 5 VGA cooler
HDDs: Three 10K-RPM U160 SCSI drives on an Adaptec 29160N controller (two Fujitsu, one Quantam)
Case: Cooler Master Praetorian; Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 ATX
Optical Drives: Plextor UltraPlex PX-40TS CD-ROM (SCSI); Plextor PlexWriter PX-W4012S CD-RW (SCSI); NEC ND-3550A DVD-RW (ATA)
Tandberg NS20 Pro tape drive (SCSI)
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card
Zoom V.92 PCI faxmodem
A whole lotta fans!
My current installation of WinXP Pro dates from December 2003.
:P
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 15, 07:57:56
I wish I could afford to put together a new PC! :'(
You know, maybe if you weren't in the habit of constantly wasting money, you'd be able to. It's not like PCs are expensive, you know. I mean, if you have a job, you surely make plenty every month. What could you possibly be spending that on, given the fact that you're a complete loser?
Hegelian:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 February 15, 08:53:32
Quote from: Hegelian on 2007 February 15, 07:57:56
I wish I could afford to put together a new PC! :'(
You know, maybe if you weren't in the habit of constantly wasting money, you'd be able to. It's not like PCs are expensive, you know. I mean, if you have a job, you surely make plenty every month.
Well, no. Most jobs don't pay "plenty".
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What could you possibly be spending that on, given the fact that you're a complete loser?
Um, a mortgage, insurance, maintenance and repair. . . .?
theisz:
Well, I spent the evening in SimPE changing all my sims careers over to maxis ones and then deleted all of the custom careers. I also went through my hacks and just deleted any that I really didn't need/want anymore.
I played the game for an hour and it didn't lock up. I also for some weird reason did not get the flashing blue streaks, but that is intermittent so that doesn't mean anything. I'll play the game some more tonight and hope it goes ok. I hadn't thought about it, but the houses I was playing had sims with custom careers. When I was in SimPE I looked at the last sims I had been playing when it locked up and they had unknown for their career. I don't know which custom career they had, so I just deleted them all.
The funny thing in all this is in two weeks I'll be clearing out all of my hacks for next EP. :P
Hegelian, I hear you on the mortgage, utilities, insurance, groceries and gas. I wouldn't have been able to get this PC built if we hadn't done a refi on our house at the end of last year.
Thanks again for the help, I do appreciate it.
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