Help with game crashing

[bekkah2408]

I am wondering if any one else has this problem: I can play my game just fine untill I put pets into my home, then after a bit the game just restarts my whole system. Then from that point on any house with a pet takes at least 2 mins to load. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all games....I have even gone out and bought the pets cd after already having bought it digital download. I dont want to go buy seasons cd after already paying for digital download. I have played without any cc and still this problem happens. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Is frustrating to have to save every 2 mins with fear of game computer restarting. Thank you

[caffeinated.joy]

What are your computer specs? Is it possible your system doesn't meet minimum requirements?

[bekkah2408]

My computer is AMD Athlon 64X2 dual core processor 4600+ 2.41 GHz 1.00 GB Ram with a NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT graphics card....Is that what you needed to know?

[caffeinated.joy]

Yes, that's what I needed to know. You shouldn't have a problem running the game, but I would check to make sure your drivers are all up to date, particularly your graphics card.

ETA: Take a look here. There's a new beta driver released for nVidia cards that could help.

[PegasusDiana]

Did you install the patches? I believe it's the NVIDIA cards are the ones with the problems aren't they? The blue screen of death? There is a fix for it on EA. Here you go scroll down to Tuesday, 10 July 2007 there is the links to the fix.

Oops sorry, might help if I give you some links eh? lol I was running a DxDiag test on my pc to make sure everything was running right and got into looking at it. I hadn't ran one on my new PC.

Here's the link to the info:
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/blog.php?user_id=3104068

Here's the link to fix:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_162.18.html

or Here:
http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_rel70betadriver.html

[bekkah2408]

Thank you both so much! I am downloading the nvidia fix. I really hope this fixes the problem and know never again to buy nvidia! Thank you both again!

[caffeinated.joy]

It's one of the reasons I'm an ATI gal all the way.