I don't have a Dell yet, but I want to get one of their Alienware thingys! I am on an Hp with Windows XP, and my video card is an Nvidia GeForce 6150. That's why I really couldn't play Sims 3. I don't know... It's all just crapped out.. I was making the joke last night with my husband that I could make it to Redwood City in just under two hours to dump all of my games at their doorstep!

I think I'll just proceed with the plan to get the new computer rather than trying to upgrade and fix this one...ugh...

My Sims 3 went bad on me, so I decided to uninstall... I have a crap video card, so I figured that I'd just play Sims 2. After the uninstall(of Sims 3), the Sims 2 will not load at all. My monitor goes black for a second, and just kicks me out to the desktop. I tried removing all of my downloads, uninstalling everything and re-installing. After several hours tonight, I figured that I'd try Sims 3 again. I installed, and when I try to start it up, my computer immediately reboots. I don't even have World Adventures. I don't have any mods, or custom content. It was just the base game...

I guess I just want to know if anyone has had any of these problems...

And at this point, is it worth it to take a drive over to Dell, or just give up on EA?   

I am also having a strange problem. My screen goes from light to dark after about five minutes. It then goes from dark to light a few minutes after that. All of a sudden, my monitor says it is going to sleep, and then I have to fully shut it off using the button. With the 1.3 patch it did the light to dark thing, but it never fully shut everything down. Now with 1.4 I literally get about ten minutes of gameplay. Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions?