Yet Another (More Different!!) Crashing Seasons Problem.
Edana ni Emer:
Quote from: Bangelnuts on 2007 March 04, 21:55:39
are you trying to run the game with your fire wall on? sometimes that will cause a problem. I have all EP's and seasons installed and I am not having an issue.also did you shut down unneccesary background tasks. The Sims 2 and Ep's including Seasons use a lot of resources while running. to shut down background tasks ctrl+alt+delete to bring up the task manager window. click user name and it will list all tasks running in the background. under "owner " shut down all task's except for taskmgr.exe and explorer.exe. when the warning bar pops up click ok.each time. this will free up the resources needed to run the game. the game manual that came with seasons gives a few helpful hints for running the game and it's running requirements.
I'm doing everything exactly the same as I have been while playing the game for the last six months or so. But just for the sake of argument, I tried it anyway: no change. I even updated my video drivers. No change. Well, after wrestling with the goddamn things for three hours because my computer didn't want to recognize them. ::) I updated DirectX, too. I've got plenty of resources, and everything was working fine up until Seasons. I think if it was a resource problem it would actually say something to that effect on the error message instead of giving me a blank one, and would make at least an attempt at loading the game itself.
Cons:
Ummmm which video card do you have? Which drivers did you put in? Not all work with Sims 2. Even ATI has it glitches with Seasons if I read the read me correctly.
I'm going to change mine...dragging my butt because that sometimes can be a real migraine event. Especially if the next set doesn't help and I have to try another set and another....
My son had a problem with WOW and a 9600 Pro Radeon card. He about wore the damn thing out putting different drivers in and nothing helped it.He finally got another video card. Think he got the X800 when it was the biggie. Been a year ago so I don't remember for sure. That fixed it.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Edana ni Emer on 2007 March 05, 13:31:17
Quote from: Bangelnuts on 2007 March 04, 21:55:39
are you trying to run the game with your fire wall on? sometimes that will cause a problem. I have all EP's and seasons installed and I am not having an issue.also did you shut down unneccesary background tasks. The Sims 2 and Ep's including Seasons use a lot of resources while running. to shut down background tasks ctrl+alt+delete to bring up the task manager window. click user name and it will list all tasks running in the background. under "owner " shut down all task's except for taskmgr.exe and explorer.exe. when the warning bar pops up click ok.each time. this will free up the resources needed to run the game. the game manual that came with seasons gives a few helpful hints for running the game and it's running requirements.
I'm doing everything exactly the same as I have been while playing the game for the last six months or so. But just for the sake of argument, I tried it anyway: no change. I even updated my video drivers. No change. Well, after wrestling with the goddamn things for three hours because my computer didn't want to recognize them. ::) I updated DirectX, too. I've got plenty of resources, and everything was working fine up until Seasons. I think if it was a resource problem it would actually say something to that effect on the error message instead of giving me a blank one, and would make at least an attempt at loading the game itself.
I guess I am one of the lucky ones my ancient 3 year old computer is still well above specs for seasons and has not had issues with it . I have a Pentium 4 Compaq Presario with 2.4 processing speed overclocked professionally to 2.8 MSI (Nvidia GE force FX 5200 video card )1024 mb ram 778 mb system ram available 240 GB hard drive. Iread that hard drive space plays a factor in Seasons . 5GB free is needed for the game not sure why but that's what I .read also the newer nvidia drivers seem to wreak havoc with both Pets and Seasons .I refused to update my drivers because of this.if you are using Nvidia you maay want to roll back your driver to an earlier version.
Edana ni Emer:
Quote from: Cons on 2007 March 05, 13:51:49
Ummmm which video card do you have? Which drivers did you put in? Not all work with Sims 2. Even ATI has it glitches with Seasons if I read the read me correctly.
An ATI Diamond Viper Radeon x1600 Pro with the latest drivers. I don't have quite enough RAM to make Sims 2 perfectly happy, but 512 is okay as long as my lots aren't too big and I don't cram them too full of pointless crap.
Cons:
You'd think your card would be ok. It's not on the list in the read me as one having glitches with Sims2 etc.
Drive you nuts though looking for the problem.
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