[Non-Sims Related...or maybe it is...] "Access Denied" and STOP: errors
J. M. Pescado:
A STOP error like that is usually related to some kind of hardware dysfunction. Given that I've used an Nvidia card without any difficulty for awhile, I am inclined to suspect that your issue relates to overheating, especially since you have an LE "El Cheapo" Edition AND are exacerbating the strain by unnecessarily running at a higher refresh rate, forcing the card to work still harder. Thus, boom. Reduce your refresh rate to a more reasonable value, like the traditional 60. Making it run at 85 is making it work nearly 50% harder to draw the same thing, and people aren't supposed to be able to see better than 30 FPS anyway.
As for the access denied errors, THAT, I would blame on SecuRom, which is evil. The solution to THAT is to spit on your hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats. ARRRR!
morriganrant:
B posted how to stop Securom from running on another thread.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,9559.msg265414.html#msg265414
Although, many of us don't seem to have, a bit odd.
Hairfish:
Quote from: Khan of Wyrms on 2007 September 27, 15:43:23
Administrator settings are located in Start>Control Panel>User Accounts. Uninstall nVidia drivers from Start>Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs, the way nVidia recommends.
According to UserAccounts, I am the Administrator.
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If you are having trouble with driver installation, use Safe Mode, it is evil and should work just fine in Hell. To get to Safe Mode, press and hold [F8] while Windows is trying to load during startup.
Ah! The one thing I didn't try. Thank you! I was under the impression that using msconfig to use Diagnostic startup was the same as using Safe Mode. That's didn't work, obviously. (Neither did using Add/Remove Programs to try to remove the old drivers, which was the first thing I tried, then five times more, before trying it through the device manager. Sorry I wasn't clearer on that.)
For the time being, I'm going to leave things as they are, since I was able to play for two hours last night without a freeze-up, by saving every 30 minutes or less. Of course, I didn't take any Sims on vacation. If it starts happening again (and I have no doubt it will), I'll start with Safe Mode driver updating, and proceed from there with a direct attack on SecuROM, as provided by B...
JMP, people aren't supposed to be able see a change in refresh rate above 30? I did back mine down to 75, as advised, but anything below that flickers horribly. I'll give you that I do have a cheap card (it is from Dell, after all), but this is NOT a cheap monitor by any means. So it must be my cheap eyes, huh? ;)
Or, as I've always suspected, I am not completely human.
Thank you all for taking the time to teach me some things.
Hairfish:
Hm. I decided to go ahead and try to get SecuROM to go away, and I don't have a SecuROM User Access Service OR UAService7.exe (or UAServie8.exe) on my system.
B:
Quote from: Hairfish on 2007 September 28, 19:21:14
Hm. I decided to go ahead and try to get SecuROM to go away, and I don't have a SecuROM User Access Service OR UAService7.exe (or UAServie8.exe) on my system.
I am still investigating the current protection scheme. A few people (such as myself) encountered the usual crap, but most folks seem to be getting something else entirely. Any updates on this will be posted in the other thread.
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