List your Bon Vonyage bugs and compatabilty issues
BeosBoxBoy:
Just stepping in to give everyone a heads up, there are serious problems with sound drivers conflicting BV. At this point, I know we all expect video drivers to be the nightmare, and there are conflicts there, but it's more than likely that a lot of you are having problems because of your sound cards. I don't have a list of bad drivers/cards yet; but so far I have tested Audigy Vortex of Sound 8800, 8810, 8820, 8830 and all the Sound Blaster cheap cards and been rewarded with halts and crashes under Windows XP. It may be the hardware or it maybe the driver.
the 8800 series was made originally by Aureal Semiconductor but seen on a wide variety of sound cards - including Turtle Beach and Creative SoundBlaster cards, but Aureal was either purchased by Creative or they sold the augidy chip technology to Creative about 2000 or 2001. The chips were good "back in the day" but have long since fallen behind in DirectX compatability.
I won't own a copy of Windows Vista, I'll go back to Unix before I do that :lol:
Some problems in WIndows Vista may be a result of 32-bit software being run under a 64-bit Operating System. I will leave that to those more expert in the matter to determine.
Deviancy:
Good call there Beos...
I went ahead and went into the device manager..
Disabled the Audigy 4..
Tossed a few hacks into the downloads folder..
Opened the game..
Now without music it's hard to tell if the music was cutting off. However, no freezes.. I scrolled up and down the mod list to make sure it wouldn't hang.. it didn't. I then ok'd that and got to the town selection. Now the freeze usually caused the little animated pictures to well.. freeze. They did not freeze.. so I picked a town and entered..
Now this is where I can't if there's an issue..
The loading screen stayed up for quite awhile.. maybe 2 minutes.. Then the town loaded and I picked a house and loaded that.. that loaded at the normal speed it always does. The sims were having a balloon fight.. seemed to be stable.. they weren't freezing up at all. The only time I got a little hesitation is when the nanny came and when the carpool came. This is normal for me however, I always get hesitation any time a car enters the lot or the sun comes up.
I did not try a vacation lot.
So the freezes are occuring because EA screwed up and didn't test things properly. It isn't that much of a task, Creative hardly ever updates their drivers. They've had the same ones up for 12 months and the other expansions had no issue with them.
But this explains why some are having a blast with BV.
There is one other bug.. unless I'm going nuts.
When I click on the door to exit the game, the sims always brings up the yes or no question. Ever since I installed BV, that prompt comes up but sometimes exits before I click on yes or no.. heh.
They really should have tested this expansion better..
ForNeverKrystle:
Quote from: ancienthighway;921425
The only selectable/playable sims on vacation are members of the household that booked the vacation. Any non-household members invited along remain non-selectable just as they normally are in the main neighborhood.
Thanks ancienthighway (!) that had never occured to me, all four Sims were from different households, it's a mistake I won't be making again!
BeosBoxBoy:
Deviancy, I just came back from testing a Creative Audigy 4.0 Pro to add a note on that model and it's like you describe, choppy play at best. Almost any of the audigy cards will be buggy. These seem to be only slightly modified versions of the same chipset that was used in the AWE-32 sound cards - and those were barely DirectX 8 compatible, so it is really pushing the technology beyong its limits and defrauding the public on Creative's part to claim these cards are DX9 compatible.
If you have an onboard sound chip of some sort, I have discovered even the ones most people consider complete crap will get the job done with no choppy performance. the AC'97 series is what is most common for onboard sound, and it worked admirably well.
joanne1977:
ohh ive been lucky with my game,no problems at all.
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