My game hates me :-(
Tenshii~Akari:
Agree 100% with Bejeweled. :thumbrig:
From looking at your profile, it seems you have BV as your highest EP. When was the first time you installed that? I might be getting a small hunch with where this is going. :angel:
You have a very good processor, so I know that's definitely not the problem. (way better than one on a piddly laptop like mine. :lol:) And you only have 448MB of RAM total on your PC? To be honest, that's definitely not enough to run the game at it's best, if sometimes at all. (1GB of RAM is really the "unofficial" minimum, while 2GB is the safest route) I'd say it's probably something to do with that and how much shared memory your video card has... which seems to be 64MB. That's not nearly enough to run BV properly, unfortunately. You may have been able to play your earlier EPs just fine, but every time you install a new EP, the video card minimum requirements up themselves... meaning that the game will demand more from that each time you upgrade to the latest EP. That's one possibility.
The other... well... I'm sick of saying it, to be honest, but it's probably something with SecuRom. Doesn't sound like the normal "symptoms" that usually displays when people have problems with it, but it does usually messes around with how your computer works sometimes, and that includes starting up your game. Not saying it's the problem for sure, but it's a small possibility if everything you've tried (even a last-resort re-installation of the whole game) doesn't work. :dontknow:
soundandfury:
Ugh! Stupid SecuRom! Scourge of Sims players everywhere. . . .
Thanks everyone, though. I may back everything up and uninstall BV if RAM is the problem. I honestly could live without it :) I think I'll do that, then see what happens.
Razamataz:
AAAAaaa Might be a Dumb question Might not be, But have you also removed, your SavedSims Folder? It carrys some Downloads there also.
caffeinated.joy:
I'm not familiar with that graphic card. I tried doing a search and it gave me a bunch of chipset information. The best I can tell is it's integrated graphics, and if it's only 64mb of memory, then that could be contributing to the problem. It doesn't matter what the sims 2 site says. 64 mb graphics just doesn't cut it for the game. If you can afford it, I wouldn't go with anything less than a 256 mb card.
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