After installing Pets (from the Library; 'cuz I'm cheap, and I have Seasons), the game would crash when loading large lots (only UI showing, sound), making a second sim, saving (haven't tried exit to neighborhood/quit), even loading a neighborhood. I look at the disk and it is scratched to hell.
If only I...(IF!
) I'm on a laptop with Intel GMA X3100 (that 9xx chipset family). Now, the strangeness is that the game would run wonderfully on this machine before Pets. After uninstalling Pets, the problem still persisted. Reinstalling the entire series, still there. Patching, no help there. However, if I had debugging on it would save. And before I forget, sometimes it would reset the neighborhood, no Uni, DT, or shopping district. Should I go all out and reformat the hard drive, or is there a less drastic action?
Pets ruined my Sims experience
ETA: Of course I didn't reinstall pets. Seeing how this is the third time of trying to edit (probably using the wrong button) just ask if you need more details: I proved my theory that you have to double click the picture for the neighborhood in order for it to load properly, and it seems the neighborhood would reset if I just inserted the disk instead of using the shortcut. That same day I installed Steam/Portal, but IIRC, the crashing was still occurring before that. I could have used system restore but a previous act had only left a restore point 4 hours too late. Also, if I have it on fastest it could cause crashing but this doesn't happen as often and I only need to be careful about what I do. Seeing how there are views but no replies...this seems like quite the problem. Oh dear...
Does anyone have any ideas? Any?
Way to go, I have now taken this problem to....
TECH SUPPORT.