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Title: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 23, 2009, 05:10:49 pm Ive had my game for a while now and it worked fine but recently it freezes but the green diamond still moves and the zs from sleep still move whats ith that.
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: saowens on June 23, 2009, 06:34:55 pm Did you add any mods to the game?
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Chaavik on June 23, 2009, 07:31:18 pm Have you installed any of DizzyMental's mods affecting teen pregnancy and relationships?
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 23, 2009, 08:52:50 pm I only installed awesome mod and mode the sims helper monkey
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 23, 2009, 08:55:01 pm where do i find the DizzyMentals mods
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Chaavik on June 24, 2009, 02:25:12 am That answers my question about DizzyMental's mods. You can hunt for them at MATY. But that does not solve your problem still. Do you have enough memory to handle the game itself?
AND don't double-post please. Use Modify to edit your post the next time. Title: Re: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 24, 2009, 12:58:58 pm Yea i just spent $80 on a video card and memory and what is maty ?
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: SimGirl20 on June 24, 2009, 03:13:15 pm more awesome than YOU ---> m-a-t-y
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 24, 2009, 03:26:55 pm I dont understand
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Chaavik on June 24, 2009, 05:06:16 pm Never mind about MATY. It's a site where a Sims 2 community hangs out at. It's Pescado's site where he primarily releases a legion of mods for Sims 2 and started releasing an all-in-one mod to fix the issues with Sims 3 on a daily basis.
What kind of video card did you buy and how much memory did you now have to run Sims 3? Hopefully the card is on the supported video card list that EA provides on its site. Title: Re: Freezing Post by: tifo on June 24, 2009, 07:15:29 pm GeForce 9500 GT
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Care on June 24, 2009, 07:24:10 pm did you update your drivers also make sure your screen resolution for your monitor and your in game are the same. (might help has been some of the problems people been having)
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: saowens on June 25, 2009, 06:58:44 am Nvidia released a driver update around the middle of June. Install that update. It helped clear up a couple of issues I was having with the game.
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Debbycus on June 25, 2009, 10:29:58 am Nvidia released a driver update around the middle of June. Install that update. It helped clear up a couple of issues I was having with the game. No, that does not seem to work. I have a (brand new) GeForce 9600GT with freshly updated drivers (and temperatures monitored, so overheating is not an issue either). I'm guessing this has to do something with the game's coding, since it only freezes between 1AM-3AM. Which is simply weird. Any further suggestions? ETA: Apparently, it is triggered by the Awesome mode itself: read here (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15536.0.html). Until Pescado somehow fixes it, I'd much rather deal with the lags than with EA's stupidity. :p Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Care on June 25, 2009, 12:42:21 pm I cant use the awesome mod either my game wont even load with it in.
Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Chaavik on June 25, 2009, 05:34:45 pm I used his latest build of the awesome mod and haven't encountered any serious lag from around 1 AM to 3 AM.
Although there is one thing to try: Go into: C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 Or if you have Vista, I'm guessing it would look similar to the above. Delete: CASPartCache compositorCache scriptCache simCompositorCache These are the cache files to delete before starting up the game whether yo have the awesome mod installed or not. If the game crashes at around 10% on the loading screen, start it up again until the game loads fully to the Saved Games screen. Keep trying until you can get the game to load completely. You can delete the cache files in between the attempts. I know that Pescado is looking into a number of things related to the odd crashes. But I'm not sure if it has to do with the mod itself but the system on which the game is installed. I still get crashes, but I still can get the game to load with patience. Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Debbycus on June 25, 2009, 05:42:31 pm I always delete the cache files before starting either games, and it does work...for the very first night. Then, after the second, the lag comes back.
It might be because my 2GB of RAM is not enough, but frankly I have spent enough money on the video card, so until it is absolutely necessary to update, I will deal with the lag. Just to compare, how many RAM do you guys have (both those who don't and do experience the lag)? Title: Re: Freezing Post by: Chaavik on June 25, 2009, 05:52:21 pm Well, my current specs:
AMD Athlon 64 @ 3800 (about 2.3 or 2.4Ghz) ATI Radeon XT1300 series PCIe card with 256 onboard RAM 2 GB of DDR2 RAM (Can be upgraded to 4 GB) 500 GB Hard Drive DVD player MSI motherboard with nforce chipsets and software Windows XP Pro with SP3 I do experience some lag, but not as serious as others have reported. The game will pause for about 2 or 3 seconds and then be fine onward. Title: Re: Freezing Post by: saowens on June 25, 2009, 07:43:40 pm I've been using Pescado's mod for a while now and I've never experienced any of the issues that I have been reading about on MATY. I have to think it has something to do with the system or windows version the mod is installed on also.
These are my specs Abit AB9 Pro Mother board (Intel965+ICH8) 3.0 ghz Intel Pentium D 2 gig Kingston DDR 2 memory NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT video with 1 gig memory Optiarc DVD RW AD-7191A SCSI CdRom 650 watt power supply Windows XP Pro sp3 |