Seasons is crashing
angelyne:
When I intend to play the Sims, I created a cmd file that stops a whole bunch of non-critical services, as well as stops a bunch of exe that I don't need. Stuff like Mcafee AV (which you CAN stop, but you need to close 3 services, most especially the framework service, otherwise it will restart itself). I shut down the ipod stuff, and a bunch of others I can't recall at the moment.
Example :
net stop "network associates mcshield"
net stop "network associates task manager"
net stop "McAfee Framework Service"
net stop "ipod service"
net stop "Security Center"
net stop "Wireless Zero Configuration"
net stop "Automatic Updates"
net stop "Computer Browser"
etc....
and to clean up, I shut down a bunch of exe's i don't need.
taskkill /f /IM ituneshelper.exe
taskkill /f /IM updaterUI.exe
taskkill /f /IM shstat.exe
If you have never done this before you only need to create a notepad file and save it with the cmd extension. You run it like you would any program.
Why not simply just disable the services ? Because I'm too lazy to restart the service if I want to use whatever functionality it provides. It also lets you run a sort of "standard" and "lean and mean" type of configuration without too much bother. Unless you consider clicking on an icon after booting too much bother.
Of course they ARE critical services that you can't shut down. Best to do a little research on the net to find out what they do, before killing them. But the good part of shutting down services using a cmd file, is that if you make a mistake and you break something, you simply have to restart your computer and everything will be fine.
Lana B:
I'm nowhere near Seasons running up to NL on my laptop which has recently decided to start throwing this exception at me when I try and save. It's a recent development. I also grabbed a copy of Life Stories from TPB which gives me the same exception code on loading so I haven't actually played it yet. I would love to know what's causing it. The guys running SETI@home seem to think it's related to having a screensaver and a lot of people playing various different games think it's nVidia related.
I tried a few things including taking out all CC (including my awesome hacks), deleting My Documents\Sims 2 folder, uninstalling and reinstalling the whole game, uninstalling lots of other stuff, cleaning up the registry, defragging both hard drives. I can play but can't save so it gets old pretty quickly and would love to find a solution.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Cons:
I can relate to the "Save" problem. It crashed last night when saving. Oh cool, something new in crashdom. >:(
I'm going to load it up here in a few and make some changes in ingame settings and then see what it does.
Let you know about Nvidia then. Because these will change the game default graphics settings.If my memory is correct, before you had to set all the fancy shamsy game setting manually. Now I notice everything is preset by how the game determines your graphics card's ability to run everything. That could be some of the problem.
angelyne
That's probably good when you have lots of local processes running, but my list is very short and doesn't
have many megs of ram useage involved. I just don't have a bunch of stuff running on this computer in the background other than XP junk which you can't shut down.Explorer.exe uses the most ram of anything running.
Lana B:
Quote from: Cons on 2007 March 12, 20:16:20
Let you know about Nvidia then.
Was this directed at me?
I was only saying what some people think it is as there seems to be no consensus out there. I have an integrated chip, not even a card. The bits I did read had people trying various different nVidia drivers to no avail.
If it is a memory access issue, which makes sense, what can I possibly do to fix it?
I wonder of this is one of the wonderful Windoze security fixes. I used to have them off but now have them on notify and recently let a batch through.
witch:
Quote from: Cons on 2007 March 12, 14:09:27
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.
I had many disabled services which only Avast! could have turned on. I installed nothing else and all this happened after the install, during the same computing session. I don't like wrestling software for control of my PC! ::)
I had Security Centre disabled. I didn't try disabling Avast! auto updates, it didn't last long enough on my machine after it touched things without asking.
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