I think I fried my video card...
Frog Girl:
I am going to remove all my downloads tomorrow and see if that does anything. I havent been playing for a few days but I am going to spend some time messing with it and see if it is a download or my computer.
I want a new video card so I'm almost ok with that being the problem.:shh: After all I just bought one for my husband so it is only right I get a new one too. Right?:happy8:
Frog Girl:
I have already messed with all the in game settings and turned them all down to the lowest settings. That was one of the first things I did. Then I unclocked my card and it still happens.
Frog Girl:
I am going to take out the downloads file tomorrow. If I delete the Sims 2 folder I wont have my game anymore. That is not a folder you can delete and then play the game. that folder is the game. I am not going to uninstall it. If taking out the downloads doesn't work, then I am going to start looking for a new card.
BeosBoxBoy:
Frog Girl - what indigocrystalca meant is the folder named "The Sims 2" in your My Documents or Home folder. There is a 2nd folder also names "The Sims 2" with programme files for the game, but there should be a 2nd folder named "The Sims 2" where your Downloads are stored. There are other files in that general folder that can cause bung ups with the game: SavedSims can contain a corrupted file that kills the game, or perhaps the Collections folder, or even one of the settings files may have become corrupted.
If you are on a PC - the user files folder should be here:
\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2
If you are on a Mac - the downloads folder should be here:
Home/EA Games/The Sims 2
Whereas, the game's installation files on a PC should be here:
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 or whatever hard drive is your normal install drive for programmes.
The location on a Mac is just about any where since you can install it where ever you like.
In the game's installation folder is a UserData folder, and this should never be used as you player user files folder. So if you have somehow set up the game to use the folder
C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\UserData
This is not good. Some versions of the game had weird installation problems in some language versions that caused this to happen, but this was never the intention of Electronic Arts.
After reading this thread - it is entirely possible you have cooked your video card - the fans that are on the video cards tend to be designed for a very limited range of heat and over-clocking can easily cause damage to a video card. Another consideration is the video's memory's refresh rate (a fairly esoteric thing) - but forcing the video card to work at a faster rate will produce much more heat than the memory can shed without additional cooling measures, so the VPU might be unharmed, but the memory can become laced with heat fractures on a microscopic scale that render it useless.
Frog Girl:
I thought that was the folder I needed to play the game. So if I take it out I can still play? If that is the case I can give that a try too. I wont delete it tho. I will just move it to my desktop cuz I have ALOT of things that I dont want to lose if it isnt a game problem but a card problem.
I just want to really thank all of you who have taken time to read and respond to this thread. The help I get here means alot to me and I want to make sure everyone is thanked for it.:happy8: :angel: :happy8:
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