Beosboxboy, if you have time could you help? :) UPDATE: RESOLVED see last post!
trl:
Over the past day or so my game has been acting goofy. I enter a lot that I play every day and there are no issues while playing. The problem occurs when saving. If I simply save my game, intending to stay on the lot, it saves and saves with that darned tooting blue screen (blue screen of death) and never stops. I am unable to get to task manager to end task and/or shut down safely. I must hold my computer button in until it shuts down. If I am quitting the game to save, I end up with a black screen (the grim reaper of screens lol) and again cannot access task manager to end process/shut down. When I save game and return to the neighborhood, it will save on occasion (no blue/black screen) but when my neighborhood screen appears it will shake back and forth over and over. I am able to exit the game from there safely. I entered another neighbor hood and didn't seem to have this issue. It seems it is only with this particular one which I always play on.
I have deleted groups cache and cigen and I have removed the few things I have downloaded since this has been happening and even a few days before this has been happening to be sure.
I don't have problems with my computer other than this.
Here is a bit of info reguarding my computer and games:
Here is a link on my cards info
I have a GeForce 7300GT 512 mb graphics card (not overclocked)
I use AVG 7.5 Internet Security (not free) updates daily and deletes cookies/unwanted stuff daily so it doesn't appear to be a virus.
GAMES: Sims2 base, Uni, NL, OFB, GL, and Pets none of which are new installs.
The only new hack/mod is Squinges Toddler pose but, as I figured, removing this didn't solve my issue. The other mods/hacks are few, Crammy, Quaxi censor remover ,InSimenator, hula and more of which all, I believe, are correct versions for my game.
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ancienthighway:
My first inclination would be to look at your hard drive. You may be out of space or the write could be hitting bad sectors on the disk.
If you haven't performed a disk cleanup or defrag lately it might not be a bad idea. Tools for those can be found in the Start Menu/Accessories/System Tools.
trl:
I went to another neighborhood and it did this again. This time I got the black screen but was able to get to my desktop to view my error message.
Apparently it has to do with my graphics adapter and could be one of several things according to NVidea/GEforce troubleshooting: not having latest miniport drivers installed to the motherboard, other drivers updated such as chipset, video, sound or reinstall latest Direct X. We did recently take off the GEForce card and put my ATI Radeon, then took the Radeon off and reinstalled the GEForce (LOL, don't ask :)) so we may have left some ATI stuff on inadvertently or not updated/installed all NVidea drivers. We are now going to start over, remove all drivers and such, and reinstall the GEForce. I appreciate the help ancienthighway! By the way I have Total 143gb/Free 102 and I defrag/clean up every week or so. I will edit this when we get it right! Thanks again!! *hugs*
ancienthighway:
Well, the video card and drivers were my second inclination lol.
With the crash only happening when you're saving, I thought disk right away, but the blank screens that you were stuck on does sound like problems with NVidea cards and drivers.
trl:
Well since I posted last I made sure all my drivers were up to date. Then when I would change my graphic settings it crashed to the blue screen. Again I was unable to see the error message. I then decided to see if it actually was a problem with the card so I uninstalled all NVidea drivers and took out the graphics card. I then put my ATI radeon back on with all drivers up to date and no NVidia stuff on the computer. Went back in the game and still have this issue I have not had these problems with either of my cards before the last few days. I am now assuming my problem is not graphic card related. I am really puzzeled by all of this.
I am wondering now if somehow my game or a neighborhood has been corrupted somehow and if a specific neighborhood is corrupt:
1. Is this typical behavior of a corrupt neighborhood?
2. Would it affect all neighborhoods or only the corrupt one?
3. Would a corrupt neighborhood allow the game to even load?
Is it now time to reinstall my game or should I first remove my downloads, saved sims/neighborhoods that aren't maxis etc and see if the problem persists? Any advice would be appreciated. I am simply out of troubleshooting ideas. *sigh* :boohoo: Thank you!
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