Crashing after BV

[Consuela]

I never had an message"your virtual memory is too low".
I get an error D3DERR_NOTAVAILABLE and my pc reboots after 30 minutes of playing the game.
I asked NVIDIA and EA and they say that my pc has all the requirements.
I looked in diag and I don't see 272 mb but:
 Memory: 1022MB RAM
 Page File: 333MB used, 2125MB available.
So can anyone tell me where do I search for the 272?

[vanessa]

Consuela,when you are in the neighbourhood you want to play,open the cheatbox and write"boolprop testingcheatsenabled true"and play the game with it.When you click on the family you want to play,you'll get the message about objects causing you problems and you can choose to reset,delete or ignore.sometimes it's inough to resete.But I had to delete many objects playing this game.You'll get messages even while playing the game.Even sims can cause problems.then you resete and - if it doesn't solve - delete.
And delete the object from the game.

[Consuela]

Consuela,when you are in the neighbourhood you want to play,open the cheatbox and write"boolprop testingcheatsenabled true"and play the game with it.When you click on the family you want to play,you'll get the message about objects causing you problems and you can choose to reset,delete or ignore.sometimes it's inough to resete.But I had to delete many objects playing this game.You'll get messages even while playing the game.Even sims can cause problems.then you resete and - if it doesn't solve - delete.
And delete the object from the game.

Ok, Vanessa 135 I will try this.

[caffeinated.joy]

It was in the exception log you attached to post number twelve. I'll copy and paste it here.

Exception time: 01/27/2008, at 01:41:40.
Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.
Current thread ID: 2220 (0x000008ac).
Version information:
Application/module path: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\De Sims 2 Op Reis\TSBin\Sims2EP6.exe
Application/module version name: The Sims 2 EP6
Application/module version: 1.10.0.122
System version: Windows NT 5.1
System memory: 1024 Megabytes total, 272 Megabytes free.
Application/module configuration: ReleaseSRT

After taking another look at the exception code, the other possibility is you may have some bad memory, or even a bad/corrupt driver, or something as simple as spyware. I had the same error happening about six months ago, and did everything I could to fix it. I found I had some bad memory, so I replaced it, and the problem was fixed.

You can test memory with this. There's also more information on the 0xC0000005 exception error here.

[Consuela]

Consuela,when you are in the neighbourhood you want to play,open the cheatbox and write"boolprop testingcheatsenabled true"and play the game with it.When you click on the family you want to play,you'll get the message about objects causing you problems and you can choose to reset,delete or ignore.sometimes it's inough to resete.But I had to delete many objects playing this game.You'll get messages even while playing the game.Even sims can cause problems.then you resete and - if it doesn't solve - delete.
And delete the object from the game.

Hi Vanessa 135,

I have done this and the only thing I got is the insimenator. Also I have only 70 downloads in my folder, so that is 7000 less than I had.

[Consuela]

It was in the exception log you attached to post number twelve. I'll copy and paste it here.

Exception time: 01/27/2008, at 01:41:40.
Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.
Current thread ID: 2220 (0x000008ac).
Version information:
Application/module path: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\De Sims 2 Op Reis\TSBin\Sims2EP6.exe
Application/module version name: The Sims 2 EP6
Application/module version: 1.10.0.122
System version: Windows NT 5.1
System memory: 1024 Megabytes total, 272 Megabytes free.
Application/module configuration: ReleaseSRT

After taking another look at the exception code, the other possibility is you may have some bad memory, or even a bad/corrupt driver, or something as simple as spyware. I had the same error happening about six months ago, and did everything I could to fix it. I found I had some bad memory, so I replaced it, and the problem was fixed.

Hi caffeinated.joy,
I went to that site and subscribed.
As soon as I can download that program, I will let you know.
Thank you so much for you're help....

[Stargem2001luv]

I seem to be having a similar problem. I play for 30 minutes and my game crashes. I can't figure out what's causing it.

[caffeinated.joy]

Same thing. Look in My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Logs for an error log.

[nuttyspiritual]

hmmmm interesting i used to run nvidia also and found that was a huge prob with my games just not sims hardware conflict everything crashed so I rid it and changed back to radeon ATi and boosted ram and processor and everything is sweet again odd crash with certain CC but very rare maybe the nvidia is causing probs for u also i also rid my spyware programs and it has helped heaps hope you sort it id be lost without my sims(smiles) hehehe even hubby had probs with running nvidia he now has duel core stuff so his running sweet again to GeForce good graphic but has room for improvement i think I wouldnt use again mind you

[Consuela]

Today I could play over 2 hours and didn't get any errors.
My pc even didn't reboot.
Thanks, caffeinated.joy, for you're help.
I went to see in my logs and I saw something I never seen before.
It was an excel file that I couldn't upload, so I copied it to an other file.

[caffeinated.joy]

You're more than welcome. I'm glad you've gotten it worked out.