I am going to do a reinstall of the game. I had one family I didn't want to lose. But I don't want to move in old neighbourhoods. I actually want to start a fresh. So What I might do is delete everything I don't want in my downloads and keep the stuff I do and then copy the folder over to the desktop. Uninstall the game, reinstall play the game without downloads and see if the problem occurs if it doesn't I will introduce the downloads folder

Deleting that file didn't help. When I installed the new graphics driver after add/remove the old ones it made no difference. I even installed the new ones over the old ones it made no difference. I maybe looking at to three possibilities:
1. wipe my harddrive and start over.
2. Uninstall sims2(and all the add-ons plus expansions) and reinstall.
3. Taking off the asus drivers that are there but not the ati drivers.

But right now with work and me hopefully transferring out I maybe a little busy. But I am going to sort it out. The strange thing so far the game doesn't crash.

beosboxboy: I don't think there is an on board graphics card since this the 3rd different graphics card I have had on here. And this is the only one I have had this sort of problem with. My first card with this motherboard board was a nvidia 6600gt 512mb, then I changed to ati radeon x1600pro 256mb(but it was very faulty) now I have this one, x1600pro 512mb. I did remove the old drivers through add/remove program. But as I said in post 3 one of my games would load so I went back to the restore point I had created. But this card only has trouble with the sims2. I am going to try what I said in the previous post now so I will let you know in a couple of hours on how it goes.

Squinge that is exactly what the computer tech guy who installed the graphics card said. He said cause it was installed on a nvidia card that I may have to reinstall on the new graphics card. I will will reinstall the game on the weekend if I don't get time to do it between now and then. Simsample on modthesims2 suggested this: http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?p=1153022 about deleting the sims2 config. I might try that. and see if that helps.

billyd1000: I did download the latest directx but that didn't make a difference either.

Thanks for your help. I will let you know how it goes.

Yeah I did download the latest drivers. I uninstalled the old ones and installed the new ones. It made no difference. I have had to go back to restore point that I created before I uninstalled the old drivers and installed the new ones because one of my games would not load. So I no longer have the new drivers installed.

I posted this question on modthesims2 and haven't recieved a response. It was only yesterday that I posted the question:

I got rid of nvidia graphics card cause it couldn't handle my sims2 and all the add on packs and expansions. I got a new graphics card ati radeon x1600 pro 256mb which was faulty so I decided to do another upgrade and just pay the difference. I got the ati radeon x 1600 pro 512mb. But the problem now is sims2 seems to be conflicting with directx. What should I do?

Here's my exact problem: I get the blue screen while playing. It can be at any point of the game. While saving or just playing. But the game doesn't crash.

If I load the game twice directx is fine. I usually delete groups.cache every now and then. I did this time. I tried to reload the game but I got this message: error Sims2 pets can not find compatible directx drivers.

So I ran dxdiag. I have attached the results. The first lot where it says failure is the first test I ran after I go the message.
The second in the exact same spot where it says successful is when I ran the test after I restarted the computer.

When I restart the computer after I get the error message I can play sims2. The tests show no problems.

Could it be the drivers that came with the new card? And should I uninstall them and install the latest from ati?

Also I don't know if this will help with any information but whilst in game I changes the screen resolution to 1280x1024 because everytime I got the blue screen and I exited the game the graphics card had reset itself to the original settings.

Please help!

P.S If I copy just the downloads folder onto the desktop then uninstall sims2 and the add on packs plus the expansions the reinstall then copy the old downloads folder over the new downloads folder will I lose everything I have downloaded? Like walls or sims that clean installer installed?

I have just copied the downloads folder onto the desktop and I have uninstalled the drivers that came with my new card and install the newest one from ATI. But made no difference. I still get the blue screen and the directx problem.

I am wanting to fix this as I am trying to update this thread that I started:
http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=324190

Please help! It will be appreciated.

I am thinking of uninstalling sims2 completely and then reinstall and copy the downloads folder from the desktop. I know I will lose my neighborhoods but I can kind of live with that. I only get this directx problem with sims2.

Squinge's Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit New EP3 Version. I love seeing my sims not in those maxis maternity wear.

Thank you!

Which version do I download so it will work with pets? Call me stupid but when I downloaded the version ep3 1.2 version and open it, it still says in the zip file 6/11/06. Is this still the correct version to install? Thanks!