Sudden Restarts

[Frog_Man]

I am having another problem with Seasons (*le gasp!*), and it started a while ago.

What happened was I turned useshaders cheat on, and when my sims went fishing, my computer RESTARTED.

So I go in game, and DON'T turn the cheat on, it restarts when my sims start having water balloon fights. I doubt it is the options they do, but I am wondering why my computer suddenly restarts without FREEZING, an ERROR MESSAGE, etc.

The 'blue screen' doesn't show up, it just restarts without warning.

Help please?

Thanks in advance!

[Innocent]

I'm wondering if it might be some kind of issue with the power supply or your graphics card needing a new driver installed?

[ancienthighway]

I had a similar problem when I first installed Seasons.  I switched video cards and it's worked fine since.

[Frog_Man]

I'll try the driver update first, lol thanks

[Micco]

Such an issue is usually caused by a hardware failure somewhere in the system. Could be something as simple as a loose or defective cable, could be a bad RAM stick, vid card, hard drive or motherboard.

[Frog_Man]

I'll check

[Fuzzystar1]

Do u have te sims2 inteenimater?

[jase439]

The InTeenimater has nothing to do with this.  Jesus Christ, you people will blame ANYTHING on InTeen no matter how moronic *shakes head*.  Help! Help! My panties are soiled!  It must be InTeen!!!

Anyway, to the topic at hand: an OS reset/reboot/lockup is caused by a fault in the operating system, hardware device, or a low-level driver.  The correlation between the enabling of shaders does indeed spoint to the video card or the driver (hopefully the latter, because that's cheap and easy to fix).  Hardware shaders are "relatively" new technology and only the newer cards really support them well, so if you have a video card that is older than 3 - 4 years and/or is something other than an nVidia or ATI (the mainstream manufacturers), you might have problems.

[Cathy]

I had the same problem. Lack of RAM + new video card needed. Iteem has nothing to do with that, please!!

[Charley]

I had that and it was because my graphics card was on its last legs, and also i had faulty RAM, once i had bought new stuff my computer worked fine.

Char
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[Sir.Cheatalot]

It also can be caused by your system getting to warm, so check the temperature in your BIOS of your Ram and CPU your system might be getting to warm and will shut down or restart.