*Possibly resolved--Spontanious reboot
karialSim:
My problem is possibly resolved, but more likely just a temp fix. Anyway, I added 1.5GB of ram to my computer, and was able to play yesterday for 5 hours without crashing.
BeosBoxBoy:
Karial - this is going to sound a little stupid, but I assume you have all the EPs, Stuff Packs, and a bunch of gigabytes of downloads, right? EVerything I read on the Maxis/EA site says 512 MB of RAM should be sufficient, but I have never been able to get the game to do little better than crawl with 256-512 MB of RAM. The install of base game with all eps and stuff packs is close to 7 gigabytes, and that seems like a LOT to be riding on 512 MB of RAM, so I really don't know where Maxis/EA is buying their test computers, but I sure want one.
wiccadwitch:
Quote from: karialSim;565313
My problem is possibly resolved, but more likely just a temp fix. Anyway, I added 1.5GB of ram to my computer, and was able to play yesterday for 5 hours without crashing.
Thats really good news for you Karial, and I think I fixed my problem the same way. Well sorta anyway. My husband got me new comp parts for both Christmas and then my birthday(which isnt quite here yet but I couldn't wait to put my new system together until the 10th) so I just upgraded my entire system. Besides having 2 gigs of dual channel ddr2 ram I am also running an AMD dual core 4600+ processor and an ATI radeon x1300 XGE vid card with 512 ram all sitting pretty on an MSI K9A platinum mainboard. My game runs without a hitch now. Still a bit slow to load but game play is smooth and fast. Once past the initial loading of the game neighborhoods, CAS, and lots all load pretty quickly and best of all no crashes since the upgrade. Currently I have been going through my content and trying to delete stuff just because there is new stuff I want to put in and I am forcing myself to get rid of at least a gig of content before I am allowed.
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