This is kind of in reference to
this post.
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.
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