Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! It's Another Graphics Error!
Khaki:
How did you determine that your drivers are up to date? Was it thru the 'check for updated driver' option, where it supposedly searches for it? 'Cause doing it that way is bullshit, and it always lies when it tells you you have the latest drivers. Video drivers are updated like every week, but you have to actually go to your graphics card's website to get it.
Apsalar:
I agree with Khaki. go to nvidia's website and get the drivers. I too have nvidia geforce 7950 GT, and it runs perfectly. Also, remember to check in your graphical settings that vertical sync is on.
eevilcat:
Quote from: KellyQ on 2007 October 03, 07:11:41
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?
You can get a good idea of when a character file was created or updated by checking the dates of the character files in the neighbourhood folder. Just look at them in explorer with the view details options. You can sort them by date.
I found some interesting things out from my game data:
I have an unplayed Veronaville with ~200 character files that include all the original EAxis playables and townies. Interestingly three of those files (36, 58 and 70) were modified on installing BV - 36 is the roach exterminator, 58 is the delivery person and 70 is the papergirl so I assume that those NPCs had their functionality updated in some way. The neighbourhood package file has also been updated with a timestamp corresponding to when I last played the game so I assume that is updated every time.
My Pleasantview 'hood has all the original EAxis playables/townies and has only been used to playtest Ellatrue's Ghetto Superstar Challenge before installing BV. Some of my newly created playables have timestamps corresponding to BV install as have some of the original characters including Mortimer Goth, Cassandra Goth, Daniel Pleasant, Mary-Sue Pleasant, Brandi Broke, Don Lothario, Nina Caliente, Darren Dreamer, Dirk Dreamer, Russ Bear (burglar), Amber Hiatt (shop assistant?), Mitch Lawson (fireman), Brandi LeTourneau, Joe Carr, Sandy Bruty, Melissa Fancey, Komei Tellerman, Meadow Thayer, Orlando Centowski, Ricky Cormier. I can't see any obvious reason as to why those sims have been updated though I do believe that most of them have directly interacted with my sims. As with Veronaville the neighbourhood package file has a timestamp corresponding to the last time I played.
Strangetown which hasn't been played for over a year also has updated timestamps on a handful of character files, mostly dead ancestors of EAxis sims. Its neighbourhood.package file has also been updated with time of last gameplay.
Other custom hoods have had a similar seemingly random assortment of character files updated and all the neighbourhood.package file timestamps correspond to the last time I played. I think the game is writing to them on exiting.
If you have acquired a lot of new sims then I suggest replacing your 'hoods with backed up versions and trying again, making sure you have the necessary awesome mods in place. The fact that the game updates/writes all your neighbourhood.package files out every time you play the game would suggest they might already be corrupted in some way.
My guess would be that you have got some custom content in there that the BV game code has a problem with. Perhaps something with functionality that was changed in BV. That said, it would have to be something that is used in every hood, or available to every hood so it could be a downloaded lot available from the lot catalog.
jsalemi:
The Delivery Person also delivers the photo albums you buy in BV, so that's probably why the character was modified. And the paper girl/boy also delivers the paper to owned vacation lots, so that probably explains that.
Haven't seen the roach exterminator anywhere else yet, so I can's say why that one was modified. Maybe to also be able to come to hotels or owned vacation lots?
KellyQ:
Quote from: Jak on 2007 October 03, 08:56:25
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?
I wish that was the case, then at least I could pinpoint the problem, but no, it appears totally random. Any neighborhood, any lot, any sim (if I even make it far enough to be able to click on a sim).
Khaki, I'll ignore the condescending tone of your post to say that, yes, I know I have the latest drivers because I did check both Nvidia and XFX's website to be sure. In my reply to KhanofWorms, I specifically stated that I had gone to XFX's website and downloaded drivers per his suggestion rather then Nvidia's because that seems to work for him. I have even downloaded beta drivers from Nvidia to see if that might work, no joy there either.
eevilcat, if a specific lot was the cause of this, would the lot have to actually be placed in every neighborhood or would just being in the lot catalog be enough to cause the game to crash?
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