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Title: Create a family Post by: flowerchile on 2005 December 28, 10:52:39 Long time but yes I'm back with another burning question. A friends has the Sims 2 but when the create a family screen pops up, the game dies in the a__. Has anyone else had this problem?
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: J. M. Pescado on 2005 December 28, 10:53:40 Hmm. Nope. Sounds like a problem with custom somethings, maybe.
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: flowerchile on 2005 December 28, 10:56:54 No, she hasn't any customs and hasn't even run the game yet!
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 December 28, 13:35:33 Maybe she should try to reinstall from scratch. And make sure she defrags her computer first, and disables her anti-virus and firewall.
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: simmiecal on 2005 December 28, 14:39:56 How "close" is your friend to the minimum system requirements? Just barely over?
I also second the defrag idea. I am way over the system minimums but notice a definite improvement after I've defragged my drive. Uninstall the game. Delete all unneccesary games, files, crap from the hard drive. Defrag. Reinstall. Title: Re: Create a family Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 December 28, 17:56:41 If necessary, a complete system restore can also work wonders on an aging hard-drive, but it's surprising how many people rarely bother to defrag. The game definitely prefers to run on a non-fragmented drive.
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: SJActress on 2005 December 29, 04:55:58 I had this exact problem, and it turned out I needed a better graphics thingy-ma-bob. I got NVIDIA and it fixed the problem.
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 December 29, 04:59:29 Well, try defrag etc. first, that way is free!
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: SJActress on 2005 December 29, 05:19:52 Well, try defrag etc. first, that way is free! I didn't pay for anything...it was a download of some type...XP detected my problem for me. :) Title: Re: Create a family Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 December 29, 05:34:54 Well, my NVidia card cost me £70, and that was cost price!
Title: Re: Create a family Post by: SJActress on 2005 December 30, 05:29:00 Well, my NVidia card cost me £70, and that was cost price! I'm guessing that my computer already had the card (because I never bought anything) and I needed to update the version or something...I'm dumb...don't ask me. :-\ Title: Re: Create a family Post by: flowerchile on 2005 December 30, 11:17:35 'Thanks everybody, I'll pass these ideas on, might defrag mine while I'm at it, see if it runs any better.
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