Seasons is crashing
blubug:
Hahaha that reminds me of the time my BF banned me from installing Sims 1 and then Sims 2 (when it first came out) on his computer. So I just installed Bodyshop and downloaded millions of outfits+objects, installed photoshop to make some clothes and skins. He then helped me fix my own computer and add RAM :D
Venusy:
I'm running on lower specs than most people (1.1GHz AMD Duron, 512MB RAM, GeForce 5200 FX) and Seasons (as well as Half-Life 2) run fine. Neither have crashed (apart from the random system crashes that seem to plague my system these days, but these occasionally happen even when explorer.exe is the only major application running). Half-Life 2 suffers a couple of seconds worth of freezing and audio stuttering when auto-saving/loading levels, but Seasons runs smoothly now that I've removed a lot of CC.
EDIT: "autor-saving"?
Cons:
b]Venusy[/b]
Well that lets ya know it will run on 512 meg of ram. Even HL2...I shall let Ludi know that. Make his day
since he upped to 2 gigs for HL2. ;D
I have some other funny glitches showing up on this machine over the past week so it maybe something else going on. It's not cold booting right, have to hit reset after I hit power to boot up. Last time I had that glitch was on a Shuttle NF2 MB that had a power problem with the AGP slot. Would not boot with an FX5700 in there without hitting the reset switch, then I put this GF6600 on it and it has the seperate power plug for the video card and that damn board booted everytime. Now my daughter has the board
with a 9200 RadeonSE on it and it boots everytime. But the onboard sound on that board sucks so she finally lost the sound alltogether and I put my Hercules Fortissimo III sound card on it, killed the onboard and all is right with the world again.I really would like that sound card in this machine. AC97 can be power hungry. But I can hear it switch to software emulation when Sims2 is loading up.Which is what it needs to be using.
THis machine has been showing up with some really odd glitches. Progressing I think. So now looking for
those problems and possibly when I find the fix for those it may fix the Sims2 glitches. Was backing up the HDD this afternoon, put everything importent on my "F" Drive, then decided I'd copy all the files in My Documents to a DVD and it says it can't copy the files. WTF is that? Was faxing a document the other day and was going to add the number to speed dial (My printer is a Lexmark X6170) and the Fax setup utility says it can't locate the printer??? Printer is online and prints just fine. USB, but USB works just fine.WTF is that one? Winders decides to now boot to a log in screen and I'm the only user on this machine? Huh? For 8 months it boots to my destop and now it wants me to log in? Drvie is testing ok, it's a 160 gig HDD, 8 meg cache
and runs slower than my old 60 gig drive with a 2 meg cache. Shouldn't but does. So maybe these round cables are having a glitch...going to switch them here in a few and see if things get better.That is if I can boot this bad baby back up. I'm getting really annoyed here....because these glitches usually take some time to locate. Power supply is a 440 Watt Thermaltake which should be adequate for this hardware. Husband has my 500Watt supply because his board can't use the new 24 pin connector, it's got too wide a clip and seems to bend a capacitor if you try to plug it in. Geeze. Never ends.....you get them all going
and then the damn things get picky.
witch:
I recently tried Avast!. I saw that AVG's free software had changed and become more idiot friendly and less tweakable, so I thought I'd give Avast! a go.
I booted up my PC the next time after I installed it, only to discover it had set the Windoze automatic updates to 'on'. When I went to shut down the PC it told me it was installing update 1 of 5, don't turn it off. 9 hours later, when I got home from work, it still said that. Apparently that is a Microsoft issue, there's a dialogue box hiding behind the shutdown that no-one can see to click.
Anyway, that's not all Avast! did without asking. It turned on a bunch of services I had disabled - you know - all the bloody remote-control stuff MS leaves so they can hijack your PC at will. Plus it turned on other stuff I don't remember right now.* Took me about 15 minutes to go back and turn off all the crap it had turned on without asking. So Avast! lasted less than 24 hours on my PC.
I've been recommended Nod32.
However I don't have a virus checker running constantly, I turn it on once a week for a scan when I do the housekeeping, the backups, defrags and so on. If you don't use IE with a million spyware toolbars and make sure you virus scan downloads & emails, I reckon it's pretty safe. The only virus I ever had was given to me by a techie who didn't virus check at all!
Edit:* Avast! turned on Windoze bloody Security Centre and Firewall too.
Cons:
witch
It doesn't have windoze auto downloads set to go on my machine. Just it's autodownloads and so far it hasn't messed with any settings. If it had I'd have sent it packing. But I turn that stuff off in Component Services, Services Local by setting auto updates to disabled. Also that damn Security Center thingy that came with SP2.
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