doesn't start: tiny popup

[ritaxis]

Now I have a new way of not starting: instead of anything else happening, a tiny box pops up labelled "Sims 2" with a white X in a red circle and an "ok" button.  No explanation.

I think I broke it but I don't know how.  The only thing I've done recently was to install Sim City 4 and make a neighborhood in it. My disk is from before securom, so I thought it was safe, but it has been patched.  I don't see any information on line saying that the patch has securom in it.  But the last time I couldn't find any securom evidence I finally did, after weeks of searching.

I'm thinking of securom first because of that experience, but what else should I be looking at?

[morriganrant]

For game help, try this link:

http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Game_Problem
Sooner or later you will make it down the list to something that could help you. In this case however, the answer is on this page:
http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Delete_Cache_Files
Now run along before someone tries to eat you.

[ritaxis]

Funny, I was just on my way here to say it was in fact the cache files again.  I didn't think of it because I had deleted them a day or so ago, and I'd never gotten this particular version of this error before.  But there you have it.  It's always the last thing you think of.

I don't think I'd be very good eating.

[Zazazu]

Cooked properly, anything can be good eating.

[witch]

We have a bird here called a mutton bird. The recipe for cooking it is to put it in a pot with a rock for 4-5 days and boil hard. At the end of the cooking time, take out the mutton bird and throw it away. Eat the rock.

[ritaxis]

Do you specify which rock?  A nice porous sandstone, or something impervious like obsidian?

[witch]

Do you specify which rock?  A nice porous sandstone, or something impervious like obsidian?

No, but that's an excellent point. There must be a point at which the mutton bird is less tough than rock.

[J. M. Pescado]

I argue that the cooking is the problem. You should just eat it raw.

[Madame Mim]

I don't know about that - I saw a show on cooking mutton bird the other week and the thing that puts me off is the fact that it is meant to taste like fishy mutton. EWWWW - a delicasy I don't think.

[Marhis]

I argue that the cooking is the problem. You should just eat it raw.

The bird or the rock?