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Title: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: cenoura on 2007 June 27, 11:15:20 This is kind of in reference to this post (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,8063.msg222981.html#msg222981).
About a week ago the game started randomly crashing again, this time with no constant factor except amount of time spent in game. Given any family of sims in any neighbourhood with any play actions (although I haven't tried "no actions", but I suspect it will still happen), my PC will restart about 10 minutes into entering a household. Sometimes WinXP realises it has had a major crash and give me a report, and sometimes not. I could attach an error report from the OS if needed, but not sure what it'll actually show you? System specs 40 Gb harddrive space on my WinXP partition 1 Gb RAM nVidia GeForce 6200 graphics card (which has 256 Mb RAM associated with it) The graphics card has worked fine before, I run it with the 77.77 driver as it was believed that the later drivers screw with the game. The only thing I can think of that changed in game was a couple of downloads of base game compatible houses. My first reaction was to remove my Downloads folder. Nothing changed. My second reaction was to remove my EA Games folder from My Documents completly and let the game regenerate its own. I had forgotten that I had renamed the template file for N001 to stop townie generation so Pleasantview didn't generate. But the crashing still occured with one of the other neighbourhoods in play. So I figured I'd just restart everything, knowing that all the graphics options would be reset by my reinstall (still guessing that maybe my graphics card or settings or something are suddenly borked). So uninstall, reinstall. I admit I haven't patched it yet. Restarting of my PC still occurs. Any ideas what to do next? I swear my game has been playing fine for three months since I started using the older nVidia drivers. But suddenly it just started this crashing thing again. Argh! Edited because I still dont understand BBS code. Title: Re: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: jrd on 2007 June 27, 11:22:14 Might still be the infamous nvidia bug, it can apparently hit at any time.
Add to your userstartup.cheat: boolprop useshaders false You will lose the fish in the aquarium. Title: Re: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: Khan of Wyrms on 2007 June 27, 11:35:28 I used the 77.77 drivers for a very long time and never had any problems, they are quite stable if a bit outdated now. If the problem is consistent with respect to time and not seemingly related to any particular activity, I suspect a heat issue, possibly with the CPU.
Title: Re: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: KatEnigma on 2007 June 27, 12:07:49 It could also be a heat problem. It's summer now, rooms are warmer, and so are the computers.
Title: Re: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: Sleepycat on 2007 June 27, 17:57:43 sounds like a heat issue to me too
My other computer is very touchy (it earned the name hairball) and if it gets a little too dusty inside the case, it gets flaky, so I'd suggest checking for dust too. Title: Re: Base game + Uni & NL. Game crashes after 10 minutes of play. Post by: cenoura on 2007 June 29, 13:58:50 It's not a heat issue, although that was the issue with my last PC (the fans weren't working as they should've), the temperature seems stable. I've just had the game crash to desktop, which it hasn't done before. I'm going to try installing a different graphics card - it's older but it's ATI so should be fine, right?
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