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Title: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: Alexavbriana on February 24, 2009, 07:00:38 pm I go through the game, loading it into my neighborhood. Then whenever I try to load my families, the lights move across the screen, stop as if it's going to go to the house, then the hourglass turns over and over again, but it never loads.
I have seven hacks, none of which should conflict: CBOY's hack censor.package InSIMenator (UV) v2.9 SIM Edition PiratePollinationTech Same Sex Marriage SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Bad SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Good Some bodyshop and some build objects. I have a lot more in my game on my other computer, and it takes a long while to load, but it does load. I don't know why my game won't work. Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: amc462000 on February 24, 2009, 09:05:05 pm this is any house or the same house? and do you really have 2 hacks named "SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Bad
SimsBaby_WitchNoOverlay_Bad" ? Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: Alexavbriana on February 24, 2009, 11:04:46 pm I don't have two hacks named that, I just copied and pasted and forgot to change one to Good. It seems to be any house. I created a neighborhood from scratch (using clean templates) and every time I try to add a suburb, university, downtown, et al, it freezes, too. If I click on the screen while the hourglass turns, it freezes (not responding). I have no idea why it's acting up like this.
Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: caffeinated.joy on February 25, 2009, 12:18:32 pm Take a look at this sticky (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,98188.0.html) and try the suggestions there.
Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: tmija on February 25, 2009, 12:53:52 pm This has happened to me twice before too. I just reinstalled Apartment Life.
Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: Alexavbriana on March 29, 2009, 01:40:43 pm I reinstalled Apartment Life, and I still can't load my Sims. It'll load to the main screen, but when I try to create families, it freezes -- not always, but often. Then if I do manage to create a family, it freezes during the process of loading the family, or when I try to go to a different portion of the neighborhood. I've deleted the Groups.cache, and then I looked at the Vista problem reports:
Quote Description A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. Problem signature Problem Event Name: AppHangB1 Application Name: Sims2EP8.exe Application Version: 1.16.0.194 Application Timestamp: 48eea287 Hang Signature: 8bcc Hang Type: 0 OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Hang Signature 1: 4a790e24f8d3bf721d61f307583c3e6a Additional Hang Signature 2: 7fc3 Additional Hang Signature 3: 1ac96d72cefa465a1dc8aa80447d73ed Additional Hang Signature 4: 8bcc Additional Hang Signature 5: 4a790e24f8d3bf721d61f307583c3e6a Additional Hang Signature 6: 7fc3 Additional Hang Signature 7: 1ac96d72cefa465a1dc8aa80447d73ed Can anyone tell me what this could mean and why on my other computer where I have even more downloads, all of the same ones I have on this computer plus some, that computer works right. Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: caffeinated.joy on March 29, 2009, 03:17:15 pm It looks like it might be a problem with your computer. What are your system specs? Please post your processor, RAM, Video card and amount of hard drive space remaining.
Basically, what that is, is Windows is looking for the game and basically having a nervous breakdown and giving up. Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: Alexavbriana on March 29, 2009, 05:41:04 pm Processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5750 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz Memory (RAM): 3.00 GB Video Card: Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family Remaining Hard Drive Space: 31.4 GB Title: Re: Apartment Life - Family Won't Load Post by: caffeinated.joy on March 29, 2009, 06:29:56 pm Minimum system requirements for AL are below. Note the bolded information by processor speed for Vista. That's most likely your problem.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 1.8 Ghz processor (2.4 for Vista) 512 MB RAM (1GB for Vista) Windows(R) Vista, Windows XP, Windows ME, Windows 98 or Windows 2000 Operating System. 8x or faster CD/DVD drive At least 1.5 GB of additional hard drive space (5.0 GB total is required if installing both The Sims 2 and The Sims 2 Apartment Life at the same time.) A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM. Supported video cards: ATI Radeon(TM) series 8500 or better (9600 or greater required for Vista) 8500, All-In-Wonder 8500 9000, 9200, 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 X300, X600, x700, X800, x850 X1300, X1600, X1800, X1900, X1950 NVIDIA(R) Quadro(TM) series Quadro, Quadro2, Quadro4 NVIDIA GeForce series GeForce2 GTS and better (GeForce 6200 or greater required for Vista) GeForce 2, 2 GTS GeForce 3, 3 Ti GeForce 4, 4 Ti, 4200, 4600, 4800, MX 420, 440, 460 GeForce FX 5200, 5500, 5600, 5700, 5800, 5900, 5950 GeForce PCX 5300, 5900 GeForce 6200, 6600, 6800 GeForce 7300, 7600, 7800, 7900, 7950 S3 GammaChrome S18 Pro S18 Ultra Intel(R) Extreme Graphics (see note below) 82865, 82915 and above NOTE: If you have a non-T&L capable video card, such as Intel Extreme Graphics, then you need at least a 2.4 GHz processor. The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 card experiences known performance issues on High Settings. When graphic detail settings are set to Medium or lower, perforce is greatly improved. |