Seasons is crashing
KatEnigma:
Mine was on a brand new lot I'd just built for the Greenmans, and I didn't hire any NPC's at all until right before I shut the game down. It was a larger lot than I'd been running lately, with a huge greenhouse.... I just don't know why sometimes it runs fine, and sometimes it doesn't, with nothing truly different between instances.
I play windowed, so I just keep task manager running. I do have an X2 processor, but my processing was fine- about 52%, which was about what it was running with before Seasons.
Cons:
Here's a link that might help everyone at least optimize their windows XP for "gaming". I had a great deal of this done before I found it but more suggestions there that I hadn't done. It's a little snappier now. LOL
http://www.firingsquad.com/guides/windows_xp_opt/
Also for those of you that into really deep tweaking of WINXP here's another link.....fiddle at your own risk.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm
Black VIper used to have the best on tweaking WINXP, but he's putdated at the moment. But is going to update.
KatEnigma:
I've done the Black Viper suggestions before, but I suggest if you do, print it out and note what you changed. I had something I turned off unexpectedly prevent some critical Windows security update from installing. It was only after much searching through the help files that it referenced this one service, and I'd remembered tweaking it (not even to off, just to manual!) The best option is to set up a separate account to tweak for gaming, and let another account left to Windows' default settings, so you can still do what's necessary.
Cons:
I never let Winders Update itself automatically. Have that disabled permanently and always have. Not that you shouldn't especially if you use IE.(Isn't this Pescados' view also..thought I read that in a thread) But I don't and won't. You can drive a semi through IE and nobody would notice, security patches or not. This machine has been virus free for two years+ now and never gets any spyware crud. But I use Firefox and keep it up to date and Thunderbird for my email. It's kept up to date also. It's usually just winders users that use IE and OE that call me saying can you fix my machine...and normally they have more damn crud in there than you can shake a stick at. Sometimes format C and reinstall is their only recourse....unless they want to pay me for all that time killing off spyware and Virus.Usually they aren't too keen on that.But I also have a router on this machine that stops lots of stuff. Uses both NAT and
SPI which doesn't allow much of anything to come in here. So I don't use winders dippy firewall either. And I keep my AV up to date.Before I got this Satellite Broadband we were on Dial up and I used Sygate then. It didn't annoy me too much and it stopped outgoing and incoming crud.
Even though not much can run in the background anymore this damn game was down to 76,400 meg of ram available after 4 hours of play tonight. But then some of the IT's say that's not a bad thing, you shouldn't have excess memory.....then gamers argue you need more ram and more ram.....so who's to say?
KatEnigma:
I got mad and uninstalled my AV yesterday. Between the router, Firefox, Thunderbird, and not being stupid, I'm safer than your average idiot WITH an AV. But even if you don't use IE, you need to keep windows updated with critical updates. You don't need to keep the service running, you just need to remember when it's the 2nd Tuesday of the month and do it by hand. There are 3 zillion holes in Windows that have nothing whatsoever to do with IE or OE.
(I am currently running a 30 day trial of Nod32, but if I'm not happy with that, I WILL run completely without an AV. I'm sick of them sucking up all my resources)
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