Seasons Error Message
akatonbo:
It's very difficult to find a laptop with a video card that is actually good enough to run the game well, because TS2 requires a much fancier video card than any non-gaming application, and laptops are usually not designed with gaming in mind. (You don't need anywhere NEAR the same video processing power to do college classwork or run typical business applications -- the two major markets for laptops -- as you need to allow games to produce dynamic 3d animation in real time.)
Sagana:
Not much help if your video card really won't run seasons at all, but do make sure you have enough ram and hard drive space available. My game'll crash with that message in right about that spot if my kids load a buncha stuff and take up all the available space (the computer isn't very big, nor very good). It might be that your laptop can run it (tho probably not well) but all the expansions and downloads and backups and whatever else is on there (music?) is taking up all the room. Anyway, it's worth a try before you sell the disk.
eevilcat:
I doubled the memory on my laptop to 2Gb and that has made an enormous difference to how the game loads and unloads. The only time I suffered a crash on loading after installing an EP was my fault as I'd left the download folder in when I installed. I simply reinstalled then copied my saved downloads minus incompatible mods back across. You mentioned you haven't downloaded anything, does that mean nothing in your download folder, or that you have only installed sims2pack files e.g. lots from the exchange? Sims2pack files can contain extras that you don't want. The weather effects for Seasons are very graphics intensive so it wouldn't surprise me if it caused you problems, though I would expect EAxis to handle that gracefully with a proper information dialog on running explaining that your system doesn't meet the minimum spec. The game boxes do state that the game only supports nVidia and ATI chipsets.
Please don't dismiss laptops out of hand, although mine has now passed its second birthday, it still runs the game fine with all 5 EPs and 2 SPs installed, not to mention ~1.7Gb in my download folder. I also run it with the mesh/texture/fx detail turned up and suffer the jaggies. It does have a 128Mb Radeon X300 in it, but I knew I was going to play games when I bought it so chose the spec and paid the extra pennies accordingly. Frame rate is fine even when I'm running it windowed and other apps alongside, my only self-imposed gameplay limits are a max 3x3 lot size and 12 sims per house. The latter is more for my sanity - see my sig for in-game pics of what a 2 year old laptop can do.
Lorelei:
My laptop runs Sims 2 fine, but it took tweaking to get it to do so, and it still barfs if I get too cocky with running ram-hoggy apps at the same time.
It is technically possible for me to run firefox, trillian, various antimalware apps, illustrator or photoshop and the sims at the same time, but I can't do it well.
kuronue:
I have onboard intel video card on this laptop, and I run seasons just fine, even with shaders on. Then again, this thing cost me a ton of money, so I assume it's got a high-end intel onboard video card...? In any case, it's only rarely showing much graphics glitching (though by the time sims 3 comes out i'll probably have to move to the desktop I just put a new radeon in)
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