Graphics jerking/jamming
Dese:
I've been having this glitch since I installed Seasons. I can play for about 15 minutes before the game jams. The game play still seems to continue (as I can tell from sounds) but on screen it's frozen and jerking, sort of stuck between 1 second of animation, back and forth, and the whole screen jerks back and forth.
I discovered today if I press tab and go into camera mode, move my mouse around then bring it back down to look at the house/sims again, it fixes the jam... briefly. But then it happens again over and over a few seconds apart. I can go into options, save, exit to the neighbourhood and come back and play for awhile, then it jams again.
I am playing with 0 downloads. No hacks, no mods, no nothing. Yesterday I uninstalled all the games and reinstalled them. Still getting the weird glitch.
My graphics card is a Nvidia GeForce 6600 GT. I read about this glitch:
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PROBLEM: Torrential rain weather setting causes the screen to flicker.
CARDS: GeForce 6100, 6200, 6200 TurboCache-16 and TurboCache-32, 6600, 6800 GT, 6800 Ultra, 7300 GS-256, 7600 GS, 7800 GTX, PCX 5900
This is a known driver bug. However, updating your driver to the latest version may help.
But my problem has occured when it hasn't been raining. I've attached my errors log, though all the errors seem to be audio related as far as I can see.
I'm feeling as if my only option is to uninstall and go back to Pets unless I want to put up with saving my game and loading back in every few minutes as the error occurs.
Dese:
I updated my drivers and now I have a completely different but just as unplayable glitch. Game goes to the sims blue screen, and then my graphics card crashs and my monitor turns on and off multiple times (like twice in one second) and I have to hit the button on my machine to restart and fix it. I quit!
BeosBoxBoy:
Dese - you will need to disable hyperthreading in BIOS it seems
Dese:
I have no idea what that means. :rofl: Could you tell me how, and why?
BeosBoxBoy:
there is a driver conflict with hyperthreading on some video cards (not all)
as for getting to BIOS, you'll have to consult your computer user manual that came with the computer or motherboard if you custom built the system.
usually tapping the delete key or the F1 key or the F2 key will get you into BIOS if you are fast enough sort when the system is first turned on.
how you change the use or non-use of hyperthreading varies widely with different versions of BIOS, so I can't precisely tell you how to do it. Heck, the option may not even be present in all flavours of BIOS. If you look at BIOS and say wtf? then just hit the ESC key a lot and that should get you out of it with no changes, otherwise ESC failing to do that press the power button and turn off the system without changing anything. then you have harmed nothing and can call tech support for your computer.
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