Game crashing at loading screen
Aquarius:
Ok, so I've been playing the sims 2 on my dad's computer ever since my laptop broke...so about a few months and it's been working fine(though it is REALLY slow) but recently it's been crashing at the first loading screen. Like right when the little yellow bar at the top is like a second away from being filled, it just crashes. I thought it was a custom content problem so I took the downloads folder out and tried it again. same problem. Then I installed a Freetime patch, didn't work. THEN I thought installing another expansion pack in there will solve it cuz that's what happened a few years ago when I was having a crashing problem so I installed the Apartment life that I never got around to installing and ran it without the any Custom Content. The game is still crashing. Can anyone help me, PLEASE!!!!
Theraven:
Have you tried to delete the 2-4 cache files? Usually helps me...
Or have you tried to reinstall everything? Uninstalling and installing can sometimes cause things to go messy. Could be some corrupted gamefiles, which re-installing usually will fix.
If it has been running really slow, then it could be that installing one more EP was just over the limit of what the computer could manage. I gave up after Freetime on my laptop...
And, of course, if the computer is running Vista (maybe also Win7), and you have between 1-3 GB of memory on the computer, it could be the really annoying 2GB memory crashing.
Aquarius:
where are the cache files located?
Theraven:
Same (The Sims 2) folder where you find the Downloads folder. Accessory.cache, groups.cache, cigen.package and contentregistry. You may or may not find all. Some generate when you run the game, others generate when you do various things with Bodyshop.
I have to delete them every time I play, because otherwise my game usually decides it won't start at all...
Aquarius:
Ok so the only one I found was Accesary cache. If the others come up when I start the game do I just do a ctrl-alt-esc, delete the files and go back into the game before it finishes loading?
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