Well hi there folks it is me yet again still trying to figure out why the sims 2 will not play on the computer without crashing. I have spent more money on this computer trying to get the game working it is crazy, or I am? I can play all kinds of older games like battlefield 2, Battlefield 2142, Bloodrayne 2. Sims City 4 Deluxe, Sims 3, Need for Speed Most Wanted, NFS Carbon, NFS undercover, Silent Hunter 4 v1.5, silient hunter 3, NHL09, and the list goes on. But if I try and play the sims 2 game which I really like CRASH, I thought it was sound problems which it still might be but I have tried three different sound cards and they all crash the game. I have tried another HDD, ran more hardware test on my GPU's, HDD's, Ram, and CPU. I can play any game but this one and there is absolutely no custom content in the game. I have reinstalled the game in proper order a million times with negative results. I have manually set up my Ram, changed screen resolution, turned off all the background stuff, disabled the antivirus, and set the CPU afinity to run on one core. I have tried to set the game compatability to XP sP 2&3, and run the game as adminstrator.
This has become a challenge that I want to solve just for the sake of solving it. What does the sims 2 have or need that the rest of the games don't? All the patches are installed, all the discs are new and I installed them as administrator. The game works better with the sound off then on but after three sound cards you think something would give. I have ran several different test on my video cards and they all look good but for some reason I still think it is a hardware issue and that the cards might be it.
So I challenge all you techs to help me challenge the puzzle of a life time (it feels that long) and see if you can help me solve it. Pleeeaaaaassssse and thank you...
Thank you so much
This has become a challenge that I want to solve just for the sake of solving it. What does the sims 2 have or need that the rest of the games don't? All the patches are installed, all the discs are new and I installed them as administrator. The game works better with the sound off then on but after three sound cards you think something would give. I have ran several different test on my video cards and they all look good but for some reason I still think it is a hardware issue and that the cards might be it.
So I challenge all you techs to help me challenge the puzzle of a life time (it feels that long) and see if you can help me solve it. Pleeeaaaaassssse and thank you...
Thank you so much