Game crashes on my new computer

[stephrodas]

After a lot of tries and two extremly useless answers from the french EA Helpdesk i think i found the solution here:
http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=06c442234ffa7adb4557aaac3804ab89&directoryID=21&startRow=1&openItemID=item.21,item.61,item.41,item.127,item.23

Seemes that the problems is very well known since at least 2 years with the GeForce graphic cards .
And Nvidia endly found the solution

I'll try with that beta driver and let you know if it works as soon as i can

By the way my computer crashes too with Oblivion. But i could play one or two hours before crashing.
But then i remembered that it use to happend too with my old GeForce 6800 GT graphic card.

So i hope that driver will solve both problems

[stephrodas]

No change at all

I'm afraid my new computer has an hardware problem ...
Anyway i hope that new driver will solve the problems for others !

[MissDoh]

Thanks for the follow up.  Sorry about your card problems I hope they can find a way to fix that.

[stephrodas]

After 3 hours looking on every technical forum i could fin , i have the solution
In fact the driver works fine, but the old driver has to be removed wih an apropriate tool and not just with the windows installer.

I'm playing since 15 min and no crash ! Of course maybe i'm too optimistic, but before the max i could stay in the game was 5 minutes.

[caffeinated.joy]

*smacks self on forehead* I should have thought of that! I'm glad you got it worked out!