frequent crashing

[Beaucat001]

Have developed a problem with crashing. Seems to happen under two circumstances: (1) If I play a residential lot where six or eight Sims live and try to invite someone over, the game usually crashes. (2) If I play a community lot and try to bring in a group, the game often crashes at some point. Sometimes it's during play, sometimes it's when I try to make the group leave the community lot.

I'm guessing that it's some kind of problem with virtual memory. I've tried tinkering with the virtual memory setting but it doesn't seem to be doing any good.

Would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks very much.

[caffeinated.joy]

Your computer probably doesn't have the resources it needs to run that many people at a time on your lot? What graphics card do you have, and how much ram?

[Beaucat001]

Thanks for  your response.

I'm using a Dell XPS DXG061, with 600 gig hard drive and 3 gigs of RAM, Pentium D processor, with two Nividia graphic cards. Supposedly, it was Dell's top of the line gaming PC when I bought it a few months ago. The Geek Squad tech who set it up for me said he'd never seen a PC this big. So I suppose it's possible that I don't have the horsepower, but if I don't, Dell must have misled me. I was under the impression that I could do pretty much whatever I wanted with this thing.

Thanks again.

[caffeinated.joy]

You should have the horsepower, so it's either something with your game or it could be a bad driver.

[MissDoh]

Beaucat, many players with Nvidia cards experience problems with the game.

There was even a beta driver out recently to fix those problems.

Did you try to update to that driver to see if the problem still happen?

There is a stickie post in this section with a link to that driver.

[Beaucat001]

Thanks everybody for the responses.

I downloaded and installed the updated driver, and that seems to have fixed the problem. I've played the game several times, and have "loaded up" the lots that were crashing. No problems so far.

Thanks again.