Basically, I've installed the Sims 2 with its expansion packs onto my system. The game crashes randomly to the desktop every 10 minutes or so. Usually when I have animations playing. But it crashes even when the game is not doing much. I was going to test Half Life 2, but I can't find my disk. Movies played fine. The system doesn't crash if I let it hover on the desktop.
Oddly enough, the game worked perfectly fine the first day I installed my system. I played the game for like 6 hours straight and not a single crash. It's only until two days ago that this mess started happening. I know it's not a virus, because I don't go online with my Gaming PC (I'm using a laptop right now).
I checked the temperatures of my system and I'm not having a problem there. The CPU never surpasses 55C and the video card never reaches 60C either. The ambient temperature is 36C. I have 4 fans (one in front graphics card, one in front HDD rack, one in the back, one on the side, and my PSU, CPU, and GFX card have fans). I can't swap parts in or out since this is my first time building a system.
System Specifications: E8400 500gb Western Digital
HIS Radeon HD 3870x2 (dual gpu, not crossfire)
600w with 35A on 12v
4gb Patriot 800mhz
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (torrent version, not legit or authenticated yet. I have 27 days left. Could that be an issue?)
**** you strangestranger, if we all just cough up hundreds of pounds for microsoft's **** then why would microsoft ever feel the need to improve their piss poor, jizz stain of an operating system.
long live the pirates i say, and strangestranger... you need to get your lips away from bill's rich ass.
OMG, this strange guy is thinking about throwing himself off the building. I hope his family is aware of this. Maybe this low forehead looker call strangestranger should calm down and understand that using software with a timer to limit time of use for trails and testing is okay from developer and publisher. They made it like that. har har.
Even if it came from torrentz download. What's wrong with download via torrentz site? How does one know if download is illegal until one installs it? Maybe it is full of virus or it packs a trojan to spy on the victim. Maybe it is legitimate. Or maybe it's a picture of strangestranger's mama. har har.
technically strange, he's not done anything wrong or illegal by installing it and not activating it (although my knowledge there is fuzzy), but regardless, i dont think this could be an issue, have you tried google ;P
Do you feel yourself scum whenever you install shareware on your computer?
Do you feel yourself scum whenever Novell sue various unix companies for copyright infringements and lost? SEE? Novell seems to have cause to argue.
Do you feel yourself scum whenever for using microsft vista when microsoft is the bad guy when the EU (that's eeee uuuu) people took microsoft to court for corrupt business pratice? The legal jargon used is antitrust case. This is still on going and on for about a decade.
Do you feel yourself scum when the Chinese just figure that microsoft is also commiting bad business pratice in china. Yes, China has recently claim that microsoft for selling each of their product like microsoft vista or microsoft office for more than the total cost of the complete hardware. The bad guy microsoft does holy **** and go public and tell china it is the worst offender of copyright law and at the same time sells it products at an insanely price level in china.
Are you a god damn scum too strangesstranger?
What happen if OPEC increase oil price by a factor of ten and then tells the holy knights of the united kingdom to stop stealing gas (refined from oil). Will you feel like a scum then?
What happen? Did your forehead just grow by an inch? Be sensible will you, explain yourself.
jujubefruit
BTW, I only play the sims. I stop play EA games because they release an add-on full of bugs. The cheapest way to fix this bug was to bundle it with a modify version of the sims, and then bundle this add-on with the sims. EA then stop selling standalone version of add-on. Bestbuy has all the other add-on except this one in their stores' computer. So, people like me who dish out $50 bucks for original first wave release of the sim. I can't play this add-on unless I buy the bundle and effectively double pay for the game the sims. I email their tech support many times and never got feedback. EA business pratice disturbs me. So now, if I play the sims 2 or other EA games, guess what? I am going underground. Umm...Uh...Er... that's layman's term for playing games in the basement. har har.
Any dumbass EA people reading this? READ YOUR TECH SUPPORT DB and scan for jujubefruit. Then refund me for 2x the sims times 10^9 for mental stress. Yes, I still got the orignal the sims cd plus the sims cd in the bundle. The apple IIe users support electronic arts for years before pc pickup the gaming . I supported EA for almost 2 decades and EA screw up with sims and with me a fan of computer game--this was not the first game screwup--I vaguely remember EA release game simply crash and does not work all the way through in the apple iie era. Concepts like beta release did not really exist in the 80's and EA took advantage and release beta games for retail. Terrible then. Terrible now.
Oops, ea jargon didn't exist back then either, it was ElectronicArts one word syntax.
technically strange, he's not done anything wrong or illegal by installing it and not activating it (although my knowledge there is fuzzy), but regardless, i dont think this could be an issue, have you tried google ;P
Hello, what's technical about it? Another dumbass scum in the mix. Try to explain yourself out of it now.
The only ones who's stealing in this thread is probably the same one who publicly claim others are "rationalise stealing".
You either steal or you do not steal. There's no rationalise from me or anyone in this so far here.
Did you know, history show, holy christians sits in church, got hungry and stole from their neighbor, then goes back to sit in chuch, and got bless by their priest. And so, same christian and their descendents claim holiness and honesty to decree holy **** (past tense) moral values on other.
Today, another christian descendent saw a user post using timed trial microsoft software as designed by microsoft and post for world view "rationalise stealing" is wrong.
I jujubefruit dare say this in the united states of america. Bite me christian holy **** monsters.
Surely he has done nothing wrong except download the media for Vista using torrents? If it was the PROPER illegal torrent version it wouldn't need activating! The fact he has 27 days remaining means he's just installed Vista and is using the 30 day grace period.
Basically, I've installed the Sims 2 with its expansion packs onto my system. The game crashes randomly to the desktop every 10 minutes or so. Usually when I have animations playing. But it crashes even when the game is not doing much. I was going to test Half Life 2, but I can't find my disk. Movies played fine. The system doesn't crash if I let it hover on the desktop.
Oddly enough, the game worked perfectly fine the first day I installed my system. I played the game for like 6 hours straight and not a single crash. It's only until two days ago that this mess started happening. I know it's not a virus, because I don't go online with my Gaming PC (I'm using a laptop right now).
I checked the temperatures of my system and I'm not having a problem there. The CPU never surpasses 55C and the video card never reaches 60C either. The ambient temperature is 36C. I have 4 fans (one in front graphics card, one in front HDD rack, one in the back, one on the side, and my PSU, CPU, and GFX card have fans). I can't swap parts in or out since this is my first time building a system.
System Specifications: E8400 500gb Western Digital
HIS Radeon HD 3870x2 (dual gpu, not crossfire)
600w with 35A on 12v
4gb Patriot 800mhz
Vista Ultimate 64-bit (torrent version, not legit or authenticated yet. I have 27 days left. Could that be an issue?)
And I didn't overclock anything.
you did not say what mobo you have and wether your ram is 2x2 or 1x4,
so check your mobo's QVL,list to see if this ram is recommended,[some] patriot ram while it is good stuff usually winds up in servers [tyan] and the like,you could also test your ram one stick at a time with memtest...
Has anybody thought that perhaps this guy has a legal copy of Windows but hasn't activated yet because he still has time left to do so and wants to sort out his PC first?
Otherwise, if he needs to reformat he'd have to do multiple activations which could cause some issues down the line. I know, be cause of licensing and Microsoft tech support, its the easiest / safest way of doing.
And provided he has a legal copy there is nothing wrong with what his done.
