That's it! I'm saying Bon Voyage to BV . . .
velvettears82:
I never had problems with bon voyage and never with freetime..some people say they have problems because of windows vista but i have vista and never had any problems.
I have a lot of cc and hacks lol maybe the game works better with those then without them!
baddboy:
velvettears82, you are one of the lucky ones. I have also said Bon Voyage to BV and have given Free Time the boot. I have had nothing but trouble since I installed them on my Vista machine.
I have a generic computer with an Intel Core 2 Quad CPU, running Windows Vista Home Premium (64 bit edition). The computer has 4GB RAM and a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT video card with the latest vista certified drivers installed.
I've lost count of the number of times my computer would go through the motions of starting up and then hang, just before the green Microsoft bars would scroll across the screen. After uninstalling Bon Voyage and Free Time, the computer starts up first time, every time.
I spent the half the weekend doing a complete manual uninstallation and reinstallation of The Sims 2 and all expansion packs, plus the Family Fun Stuff and Glamor Life Stuff Pack with the H&M Fashion Pack and all available patches thrown in for good measure. (Call me a glutton for punishment.) I played the game for about an hour, trying out a complete neighborhood I'd downloaded. I played one of the families, saved and exited to the neighborhood screen. I then attempted to exit the game. Lo and behold, "The Sims 2 Free Time" dialog box popped up with "this application has crashed. This application will now terminate." Also a little wanning from the Windows Security Center popped up advising me that my anti-virus was turned off. I did not touch any of the settings of the anti-virus.
A number of times I was also a victim of the NVIDIA "Blue Screen of Doom" when I had all eps except H&M Fashion Stuff installed.
Once again The Sims 2 H&M Fashion Stuff, Bon Voyage and Free Time have become paper weights and I will NOT be buying any future eps from EA again.
Now I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the Sims 2 and all EPs up to Seasons are stable and don't have any memory leaks. (I considered skipping Pests during the re-installation, but most lots and houses I downloaded were built with Pests installed.)
EKozski:
baddboy, i had a problem with pe(s)ts. I kept getting a warning sign saying that my virtual memory was running low. Yes, I installed the patch before playing. I took it out, no more problems, other than that blue screen.
For the life of me, I couldn't understand why I kept getting that warning sign. I've got the memory to play the game(s). I chalked it up to a memory leak. And my OS is, XP.
I only own up to OFB. I refuse to buy anymore games or EP's or Stuff packs from EA.
Since I finally updated my graphics drivers, today, I'm just wondering if I'll stll get the blue screen.
Ark_Sky:
Eh....I'm always getting the blue screen,right after BV,actually.
EKozski:
Once I installed, OFB, I started getting that blue screen. Once I learned how to turn my shaders off, it stopped. After I installed pe(s)ts, it stopped, but I had to uninstall it, because of the memory leak.
These games kept me coming and going. I hated trying to second guess them. Now, I have no problems. I can play the game for hours. As long as I remember to turn my shaders off.
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