Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! It's Another Graphics Error!
KellyQ:
So I have haven't played TS2 in almost two weeks due to the game freezing with a blank blue screen. No error logs have been generated so I haven't had a clue (other then installing BV ::)) what might be causing it. Thanks to Hook's suggestion today, I tried playing tonight in windowed mode to see if I could see any kind of error message.
Within seconds of loading a lot, the screen turned blue and popped up this message: The graphics adapter in this system experienced an internal error. Please contact your graphics adapter manufacturer for technical support. The applicaiton will now terminate.
I googled the message but didn't find any help other then the ever-popular "Update your drivers". My drivers are up to date so this is non-helpful.
The other thing I noticed when I was searching through TS2 logs trying to find an error log was this puzzling bit of information in the config-log: Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>>
Any ideas?
???
Khan of Wyrms:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 October 02, 04:22:25
The other thing I noticed when I was searching through TS2 logs trying to find an error log was this puzzling bit of information in the config-log: Name (database): NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>>
This is likely a dead end. I have two 7600GT's running SLI mode with no current issues and I have exactly the same listing in my 'config-log'. Current full-release driver is version 162.18, but there have been various rumblings here and elsewhere that BV broke the BSOD fixes featured in this release. I have not and am not likely to install BV soon, if ever, so I don't know if I can help you further with this.
After attempting to make nearly 100% certain that CPU or RAM heat is not the issue, you might try acquiring your driver from the manufacturer of your card, rather from nVidia directly. While nVidia is the chipset manufacturer of the GPU, the video card manufacturers will sometimes implement the GPU's in slightly different ways. If your graphics card manufacturer is reputable, they will have the most up to date version of drivers recommended for your card available from their website. My XFX-brand cards seem to run with less stability unless I install drivers acquired directly from XFX, for instance. This may be somewhat of a superstition, but this issue is addressed directly on the nVidia website. If you are having problems, it could not be any worse, surely.
Of course, if the true culprit is BV brokenness, this will not help at all.
KellyQ:
Per eevilcat's suggestion (during a conversation on #grah), I made a testhood this evening to see if I could play it. Worked perfectly (other then minor freeze ups) for hours. No blue screens, no error messages, no crashing. I also had downloaded the drivers from XFX's website and installed them. The only mods I had in my downloads folder were JM's and TJ's. I thought, at last, it works!
WRONG. The interesting discovery I made was that if I try to enter any other neighborhood but my new testhood, I got a blue screen, followed with the error message, Internal error blah blah blah. This is consistent with the fact that I hadn't played Strangetown prior to installing BV, was able to play it a five to ten times after installing BV, before it also started crashing.
I checked my character files and each neighborhood that crashes; I have between 300 to 400 character files. I don't know if that means anything. I use SarahMK's cleaned up templates but didn't update them for BV. I believe that's twice as many character files as what I had before installing BV.
Any (and I mean any) other ideas on why this is happening?
bowrain:
Maybe the neighborhoods are corrupted or something? Or maybe they didn't get updated properly...
That's all I can think of...
Giggy:
I had a similar problem to yours and it was because I downloaded a particular lot
My situation might be different from yours but do you crash to the desktop in a particular neighborhood? Lot? or a particular sim?
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