Crashing!!

[SimRose1]

Ok Plz help...dont get discoureged by my big paragraph! HELP!
Ok I just recently installed The Sims 2 Bon Voyage ( like 20 min. ago)
and then my game crashes. So im like "let me try again maybe it wont crash anymore.. so then I restart then load it again and it crashes, and when it did a window popped up that said " ialmrnt display driver stopped working properly. Save all data and restart your computer" and then the screen looks all big with mushed colours. And i looked in the help thing and it typed in display drivers and nothing helps! I even did a checkup on my computer and nothing happens! and I dont know what to do!

THNX

[caffeinated.joy]

We need a bit more details with questions like this. First, what are your computer specs? Second, did you remove your downloads folder before installing the ep? I'm strongly suspecting that either your graphics card isn't up to snuff or you have a bad video driver, but I need to know more to be sure.

[SimRose1]

ok well all I know is that I have 630 pentium 4, windows XP, 1.0 GB of memory, and 250 GB of memory...

[caffeinated.joy]

And your video card?

[SimRose1]

It says " Graphics Media accelerator 900 w/ up to 128MB"
...... Is that a good thing?.....

[caffeinated.joy]

That doesn't tell me what graphics card you have.

Go to start>run and type in dxdiag. In the first tab (System), get the following: Processor and Memory. Then, click on the display tab and you see two things, Device and Drivers. What I need from the Device section is the Name of the card and the Approx. total memory. From the Drivers section I just need the date.

[SimRose1]

Here it goes!

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 2(CPUs)GHz
Memory:1016MB RAM

Device: Intel(R) 82915G /GV/ 91061 Express Chipset Family
Approx. Memory: 128.0MB

Driver Date: 8/20/2004    

:smile:

[caffeinated.joy]

Ah hah! You have integrated graphics right? That's likely your problem. The site says that it's supported, but usually they create more problems with the game that they're worth; however, your driver is almost four years old, so it's worth seeing if there is an updated driver and seeing if that helps.

[SimRose1]

Oh OK!! Thansk so much! You Helped BIG time!

Ill update my driver, and see of that works!!

Thanks again!:-P