Blue Screen of Doom
virgali:
Hi all,
I haven't been simming for a long time but recently started again. Before my long period of total simming break, I used to play on and off and I had this problem too. I think the problems started after a while of playing pets, but since it's been a while I'm not sure.
The problem
After x amount of time of running the game, it freezes and I get the "Blue Screen of Doom". The last one I had was last night and it said: that the system was stuck in an endless loop or something and had to be shutdown. That either the drivers weren't properly installed or something else I forgot sorry. :-[
*There's not a fix amount of time for this to happen. I could be playing the game for a long time while doing other things e.g. chatting before it happens or I could be playing for as lil as 20 mins.
*As my poor memory recalls, everytime this happened was while I was playing a family. I cannot recall if it happened while I was just building lots.
*Last time it happened I was playing in full-mode. While the day before I was building lots in windowed mode while chatting and surfing the net, downloading stuff, talking on skype for several hours whitout getting the BSoD. I cannot recall wether I had it happen while playing families in windowed mode, but it may be probable since I hardly play in full mode anymore.
*I believe that's all the info I got. I'll just write down my system specs and hopefully someone will have any idea what could be going wrong.
System Specs
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Processor: Intel Pentium D CPU 3.00 GHZ (2 CPUs)
Memory: 1024MB RAM
Videocard: NVIDEA GeForce 7300 LE
Videocard Memory: 256 MB
That's all I can think of atm. I really hope someone's able to help me out.
Greets and such from me.
jrd:
There is a known crasher bug with (pre-8) Nvidia cards and TS2.
Put the following in your userstartup.cheat file: Code:
boolprop useshaders false
The downside of this is, you will lose the fish in the aquaria and pools.
Another way to prevent the crashes is to play in windowed mode, but keep in mind this is more heavy on the system. Your specs show your system should be able to handle it, though.
SaraMK:
Quote from: Jordi on 2007 July 09, 17:17:19
Another way to prevent the crashes is to play in windowed mode, but keep in mind this is more heavy on the system.
Is this actually proven to be true?
For me, the game always runs more smoothly and with less lag when I play in windowed mode. Also, if you are playing full-screen, leaving the game to do something else (edit pictures for custom paintings, look at something online, etc.) causes a blue waiting screen to appear when you return to the game. The blue waiting screen can keep you out of the game for several minutes, which is why I would never play in full-screen mode.
jrd:
Not sure if it is proven, but when I was running TS2 on my GeForceFX 5900XT and suffered from the crasher bug, running in windowed mode allowed me to play with shaders on without the crash every 30 mins or so.
Windowed mode plays more smoothly for me as well, but you can see the system take more resources. If your system can barely run Seasons as is, windowed play might not work.
virgali:
Thank you Jordi,
I'm pretty sure it's already written somewhere on the forum but I'd be glad if you could give me instructions how to put it in the userstartup.cheat file? I'd hate to miss out on the fishies but I can always change it briefly to take pictures and or make movies. My previous puter had an ATI card with only 64 MB of memory but I never had problems with it running TS2, I only had to update the drivers to be able to see the entire cinematics (I could only see half of the screen, the other half was black) Also Sara, it's true I got that blue waiting screen, the first time it happened to me I totally panicked thinking my card esploded. This NEVER happened with my ATI card!
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm very unpleased with my current card and will update to another as soon as I got the funds. What's the best card I could get to run TS2 with? That's also compatible with my system?
Thank you so much for the help.
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