blue screen
jinyc:
Sadly EA's solution for almost any TS2 problem (or TS1 for that matter) is to uninstall, defrag and re-install. Well, here's in interesting bit of info. On my PC (ME updated to XP [FAT32]). when I defrag I always get the message that some files could not be defragged. Guess which? Yup, all my TS2 installs from TS2 thru EP3 (including the patches). So EA why do you insist on a defrag when it does nothing for TS2????? Oh well, is good for the PC.
I have an ATI Radeon 9600 PRO and it is still awesome but whenever AOL Spyware performs a scan or Norton starts a virus scan or simply updates, I always get the blue screen and am sent to the desk top. I have never had it spontaneously happen. It has to be so annoying for you all.
In any case, I have done the NVidia and now am a sworn lover of ATI.
Janey:
Im not really good at working out what specs i have but here goes, i opened up my system Properties. :)
Im running:
Windows XP (Service Pack 2)
3200+ AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
2.00GHz. 1.00GB Ram
64bit ATI Radeon Grafics card (I think) its very small and very old.
I used to have the exact same problem with the blue screen and hour glass before i installed OFB. I uninstalled my grafics drivers and installed very old drivers, this seemed to work.
I do know that if you have heaps of custom content (yes it takes ages to load) but also when you click on something whilst playing which is custom your computer has to search through all of your custom content and find it (like people it needs thinking/loading time).
Im not too sure as to whether reducing your custom content will work or not, try it and see if it works. It worked for me. :)
Marn39:
Well uninstalling and reinstalling didn't absolutely nothing, the blue screen is still happening so I guess time to change graphics card to ATI, I love the sims but can not play the game the way it is.
susaninsturgis:
Some thoughts here. Maybe you dont need a new card but its the settings possibly. I dont hear a lot of complaints on this. The reason I'm bringing this up when Poser 6 was released last year, there was a similiar problem, and I've tried to find links because it could be related. Curious Labs the software maker told us it was a card setting issue. In other words have you changed your Nividia settings by raising them. GO BACK TO DEFUALT setting, where it is kind of in the middle. The higher you raised is going to tax the card's performance and interfere with rendering and all. Also i know many of you want super realism so you set the game settings high to. It looks great I know but its hard on the card. And what if you have a lot of items with high poly count, mirrors, and all. While its nice to take pictures with the high realism and it, is is hard on the game after a bit of play. I keep my settings at medium not high, when I had tried high, I started having problems. I was told to keep it off high, especially if you play for hours it could trash the card or you get the OES error screen to protect your computer and it shuts off :(. This could be just simple settings issue, that you need to change. Just a thought to consider.
Marn39:
thankyou susaninsturgis, I followed your advice last nite, and for the first time in simply ages, I was able to play my sims2 without the blue screen, I hope I'm able to play again tonight without the blue screen, again thankyou so much, One thing though I'm not the best at this, are you able to follow the thread for modsims2 and post your suggestion there as it as worked for me and it may help many other players, and I'm not sure how to do this, so I'm hoping you could inform the simmers at that site. thankyou again
Cheers Marn39
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