Bon Voyage inconsistently refusing to load!
Gwill:
I've already whined about this in the chat, but I'm going to whine again here to see if anyone has any ideas. I've tried searching the forums for similar cases, but not come up with anything useful.
Bon Voyage just won't load.
I am playing a perfectly legal, pre-ordered, Amazon bought, DVD edition game. All EPs and crap packs installed; no problems up until now. Daemon Tools is installed on the computer, but not running, neither is any other "shady" software.
This is what happens; I start the game (currently bypassing the launcher, but the same crap happened when I was using it); I can hear the DVD drive start to churn, doing it's stuff; frisking me to see if I'm a thief, then after a few seconds it stops and nothing more happens.
I open the task manager and see that Sims2EP6.exe is running, hogging a fair amount of memory, but no CPU resources. I have to end the process manually and try again.
The thing is, and it's a fucking annoying thing, that in about one time out of ten the game actually starts! Not consistently; sometimes it will run twice in a row with no problems, sometimes it will start the fifteenth time. I've dried shutting down all unneeded processes: same shit.
I've tried cloaking software, even though I have nothing to hide; no luck.
I've done all the old tricks of deleting groups.cashe and trying to load the game without downloads. In fact, if I do remove the Sims 2 folder from my documents, the game will generate the logs folder, but nothing else.
The computer in question is currently not connected to Intertubes, although that will be remedied in about 4 days and 15 hours (and counting).
Gwilly people do not like computer behaving inconsistent!
dizzy:
Have you tried windowed mode?
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To run The Sims 2 Bon Voyage Expansion Pack in windowed mode, first create a shortcut to the game by right-clicking on sims2ep6.exe and selecting "Create Shortcut." Then, right-click the shortcut and select properties. At the end of the "target" line, add a space and the text "-w" (without quotes). Click OK, and then launch the game by double-clicking on the shortcut.
PlayBoyRobbie:
I had a simliair issue for me and it was my cd/dvd laser dieing and I had to get them bastards at geek squad to install a new cd/dvd drive and it worked the cd would spin then stop then spin again and stop.
Gwill:
I always play in windowed mode.
It's not a DVD-drive issue. If it was, I'd get an error message of CD not found. I can open the DVD just fine, explore the content, and I had no problem installing the game.
SilentDream:
I have yet to obtain Bon Voyage but this happened to me with Seasons, it would load just whenever it felt like. But when instructed to load, it would spina nd do it stuff... take up memory... and not DO anything. Or take... you know a good 20 minutes before it would decide to load (and with 30 minute loading times due to cc, it just wasn't worth it then) The only thing I could do to make it run consistently was to use a cd image.
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