My DVD ROM drive is not reading the Sims 3 disk
Llial:
By any chance is your mother's pc to the internet conected? It can be a problem that the launcher want's to phone home :-\
The ram is a big problem. 1.5 gig is not enough. At minimum you need 2gig.
And you need to update your graf-card. Go to the nvidia webside and it is very easy to find the right driver for your card.
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us
roerzman:
If the problem persists there is a 90% chance that your optical drive is on its last legs. The good news is that optical drives are dirt cheap and very easy to install.
SimGirl20:
Hi I just wanted to add that I read a post by some girl on the OS, whom was having the same problem, and was convinced she had a defective disk. She took it back 3 times determined to play the game and is now out 150$ on a 50$ game (what an idiot..) anyway she said that the last one she bought she got from wal-mart. Apparently, she think that since the disk was made in Mexico, and the other 3 were not is the reason others are having disk read failure :rolleyes: -right?- anyway she got it working apparently, so maybe you have a 'bad' disk as well? *shrugs*
~Iris~:
Quote from: Llial on June 05, 2009, 11:03:18 pm
By any chance is your mother's pc to the internet conected? It can be a problem that the launcher want's to phone home :-\
Actually, mom's PC is connected to the net. Not a problem in sight (or sound) when it tries to read the disk. I'd install it on there, but her video card isn't compatible. *Sigh* I may just trade PCs with her and buy a new VC lol. Thank you for the help, I'll be trying all of these things tomorrow. Good night!
Chaavik:
Definitely sounded like the CD/DVD drive is going out if it's making a lot of noise reading the disc. I once had a CD drive that literally chewed up a disc and spewed the pieces out in an explosion when I was doing something on the computer.
So, shop around for a new drive. Most CD/DVD drives cost at least 30 bucks or more these days.
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