Game Locking up with no error report
theisz:
Hegelian, my PC is brand new. I spec'd out what I wanted and built it. I can't get that much more bleeding edge without going broke. :D If it were hardware/driver issues my other games like Doom 3 and Oblivion would crash or lock up also. I have a temperature gage on the hard drive and motherboard and they are ok. The video card I have monitors the temperature and it's in the green, even when I am running Doom 3. I have the most current drivers for everything and the current bios update which I did last week.
No other programs are having this issue which leads me to believe it is specific to The Sims and a hack or CC I downloaded causing the conflict. I'll bet the custom careers are the culprit. I am in the middle of going through all of my peeps in my neighborhoods and changing their career to Maxis ones before deleting them. I backed up my neighborhoods prior to doing this because I can just see a great fiery explosion happening.
I am also getting flashes of blue artifacts recently. They are the color of the sky. I am wondering if they stem from the shiny floor overlay done by, I cannot remember who, but I get the artifacts even on lots that I am not using them. They do not harm anything, they are just annoying. My game runs like a top and is very fast and smooth until it just hard locks.
Here are my specs.
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600
CD/DVD: SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE/ATAPI Model SH-S182D
Video: BFG Tech BFGR88768GTXE GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
MEM: CORSAIR XMS2 DOMINATOR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
SOUND CARD: CREATIVE|X-FI XTREME
ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x 16 ATX Intel Motherboard
Hegelian:
I am not going to sit here and say that 100% of system lockups are the result of hardware problems. However, I think it's safe to say that the overwhelming majority of lockups are caused by defective or dying hardware. That your PC is new is no guarantee that some component is not defective. Furthermore, a hardware problem might not be due to an actual defect, but rather to incorrect settings in the BIOS for things like RAM timings, or to an inadequate power supply (although this is more likely to cause spontaneous reboots rather than hard locks).
Note that quite a few problems have been reported with TS2 and some nVidia driver releases, although I don't think hard locks are one of them.
I do not think we can automatically assume that games stress all systems in your PC, or that all games stress the same systems. When I had my motherboard failure a few years ago, it did not become symptomatic until I started running Photoshop a lot. It turned out that Photoshop places more stress on the data-transfer systems in your PC more than most other consumer-level applications. The 3D games I was running at the time (Unreal, Half-Life) did not trigger lockups. However, eventually even Word would provoke a lockup, at which point I RMA'd the motherboard (after discussing the problem on Adobe's Photoshop forum). FWIW, the problem with my motherboard was a known design defect in the north bridge of my Asus P2B-S (440BX chipset). That motherboard also supplied out-of-spec voltage to the AGP slot, which would result in burned out graphics boards if those boards were not tolerant of non-compliant voltage (I burned out two 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 boards before switching to a Matrox).
Flashing blue artifacts in the game are generally the result of a missing mesh for a custom object. Lots with objects/recolors missing meshes will flash when in neighborhood view (more correctly, the objects will flash so that the flashing will appear to be coming from the windows if the obect is inside).
stormygsa:
I was having the same type of problem and it turned out to be one of Jordi's costume hiders - I think it was the christmas one. I just removed it and everything's working fine now.
theisz:
I'm sorry if you took what I said personal. It wasn't meant to be. I am not a novice when it comes to troubleshooting and repair. I did it for over 9 years as my job. I understand about BIOS settings and driver issues and the like. I've been building PC's for over 13 years so I have a very good understanding of hardware and software.
If I can run Doom3, with the settings cranked, with no issues then I have serious doubt that it is a motherboard, memory or hardware issue. Doom 3 is way more resource and hardware intensive than The Sims. I can also run and work out of Adobe Photoshop without incidence. I can even open up Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Photoshop, Firefox, SimPE, Bodyshop all at once and still not have any issues.
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.
Thanks for the help, I'll figure it out one way or the other.
I don't have Jordi's hiders. I am still going through my millions of sims changing any custom careers to Maxis ones. :P I'll be here all night doing that. :D
Giggy:
I'm taking a guess:
you've got a driver that doesnt work with the game (AKA maxis/EA had screwed the pooch, LITERALLY)
Nvidia and maxis/EA are trying to fix it as soon as possible but they recommend a cheat which disables some of the nice graphics
(I can't remember it and I want to go to bed so someone fill it in)
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