Seasons is crashing
Cons:
Believe it or not we can't get the game installed on my son's computer. It put in S2 but stopped with UNI
saying it had a read error for some lanuguage file, German I think, WTF don't need that when I'm installing in English. So we tried NL and same thing. Gave it up. Not going in on that computer.It installs every other game on that computer so I have no clue there. Guess try it on my husband's computer.
My Granddaughter had a simiilar problem trying to put NL in hers (She just has S2 in there) and it wouldn't install saying it had some kind of audio error. They got the same error on her friends computer so they gave up. >:(
jsalemi:
Some CD or DVD drives have a problem reading the EA/Maxis disks because of the copy protection. My laptop is like that -- the solution I've followed is to copy the CD to the hard disk and install from there. I have a 'disk images' folder off the root, and then each disk for the particular EP/SP gets copied to its own directory labeled 'disk1', 'disk2', etc. It's important to name them that way, or the install program won't be able to find them.
Put the first CD back in the drive so the install can read it to verify its valid, and then start the install from the hard disk. Fast, and usually gets around the problem.
Cons:
I've got it in on my husband's. Didn't get play all that long. But it had more free ram in Seasons than it's ever had on mine after an hour of play. Now he has a Nvidia card, but it's an FX5700 128 meg card. WHen I installed it on his, I loaded the gave at varying intervals.
NL, Goth House:
Page File 586meg, Free Memory was 332+ meg
OFB with GL & FFS
761PG FIle Free memory was 280+ meg
Pets
638PF and 332+ free memory
Seassons
639PF 277 Free memory at laoding Viego in Rosblossomhills
after 30 minutes of play
696PF 346+ Free Memory
After 1 hour of Play
696PF 290 Free Memory
(2 SIm days into it)
692 Page File 272+ free memory
Game Setting under Graphics are greyed out for the shadows I believe. Those have been greyed out before when Glamor Life was loaded, weren't greyed out in Pets and are now greyed out in Seasons.
On my machine they are not greyed out.
Will try and play tonight for a longer period of time.
jsalemi
I thought about that with his CD-ROM, have to ask him which one he was using. The DVD Burner or the
Toshiba CD-ROM. The Tosihiba should be able to read anything, mine always could. Annie has a Toshiba on hers and I have a NEC DVD Burner in mine and my husbands. Maxis's Safedisk 2 can be a bitch for some CD or DVD Roms to read.I don't know if WOW uses Safedisk or securerom copy protection.
It's possible that the Toshibas are too old to read the newer Safedisk correctly though. I didn't put this NEC in until last fall, so I know the Toshiba installed everything through NL.
Sleepycat:
if I remember correctly, shadows are always greyed out unless you are on a Lot.
Cons:
Could be, but I'm pretty sure they are greyed out on a lot also. But I'd have to go look. I'm sure I checked the setting in the Goth house before I loaded seasons and then in the Viego house in Roseblossomhills.Which they weren't greyed out with all expansions on that particular machine. Just with Glamor Life and with Seasons.
Now I finally decided to try new drivers on this machine. So bit the bullet and put the latest Nvidia drivers(93.71) in it. It's been playing, hasn't crashed yet, but time will tell. Free Ram is not anywhere near what it is on the other machine and on this one I shut down the AV on his I don't. The most free I've had on this machine at different intervals is 215+ on first load to the neighborhood and then it has dropped to around 158 to 168+/-.
I read the other post on the problem with the ATI drivers. Hmmmm
at this rate everyone will have to use a SIS Unicrome video card.Blah! If the latest catalyist drivers are glitching in Sims2.So much for switching cards.
Maxis needs to get it's driver issues straightened out.
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