sarah9900
23rd May 2007, 04:01 AM
So, I have TONS of graphics errors. First off I'll give my specs...
HP Pavilion zd8000
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2.79GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 (128MB)
Driver Version 6.14.0010.6530
Home XP, Service Pack 2
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
I have all Eps and stuff packs, but my problems started about 3-4 weeks after playing Pets. I've had BSOD's, the hourglass/blue screen, objects and graphics that go missing and turn black. I had red flashing walls for a while, but I haven't had those since I reinstalled drivers.
At the height of my frustration, I decided to reinstall Sims, but I was playing a legacy family (3 sims), so I packaged them before reinstalling. With the reinstalled Sims 2, I could play for about an hour before it would crash ("The application had crashed. It will now terminate.") Then other times it would only last 5-10 minutes before the BSOD rebooted my comp. I was only playing the legacy family that I'd packaged earlier and at first I thought it was the lot that they were in, but moving them didn't help. I tried using the useshaders false cheat since I shared so many of the Nvidia card symptoms, didn't work. My card isn't over heating, my memory's fine, I have plenty of hard drive space...I just can't figure out what's wrong.
I went through the tutorial for finding broken files (custom content vs. actual game files) and when I took all the custom content out it worked without problems and YET going though my downloads in sections did not reproduce the problem! I put my downloads folder (newly organized) back in it worked fine, until a few days later. And if you want even more symptoms...since installing Celebrations, sometimes Season's won't run, no message or anything, it just doesn't open. I uninstall and reinstall Celebrations and its fine again. My last issue rarely happens, but sometimes when the game crashes ("The application has crashed...") it will exit Sims, go to the desktop and when I try and run Seasons again (without rebooting) it has a "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters..." error message that comes up, but rebooting usually solves this problem.
What really irks me is that I played for 2-3 months before any of these issues arose, and all of a sudden its error central.
I'm at my wits end :( , please help
HP Pavilion zd8000
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 2.79GHz
2.00 GB of RAM
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 (128MB)
Driver Version 6.14.0010.6530
Home XP, Service Pack 2
DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
I have all Eps and stuff packs, but my problems started about 3-4 weeks after playing Pets. I've had BSOD's, the hourglass/blue screen, objects and graphics that go missing and turn black. I had red flashing walls for a while, but I haven't had those since I reinstalled drivers.
At the height of my frustration, I decided to reinstall Sims, but I was playing a legacy family (3 sims), so I packaged them before reinstalling. With the reinstalled Sims 2, I could play for about an hour before it would crash ("The application had crashed. It will now terminate.") Then other times it would only last 5-10 minutes before the BSOD rebooted my comp. I was only playing the legacy family that I'd packaged earlier and at first I thought it was the lot that they were in, but moving them didn't help. I tried using the useshaders false cheat since I shared so many of the Nvidia card symptoms, didn't work. My card isn't over heating, my memory's fine, I have plenty of hard drive space...I just can't figure out what's wrong.
I went through the tutorial for finding broken files (custom content vs. actual game files) and when I took all the custom content out it worked without problems and YET going though my downloads in sections did not reproduce the problem! I put my downloads folder (newly organized) back in it worked fine, until a few days later. And if you want even more symptoms...since installing Celebrations, sometimes Season's won't run, no message or anything, it just doesn't open. I uninstall and reinstall Celebrations and its fine again. My last issue rarely happens, but sometimes when the game crashes ("The application has crashed...") it will exit Sims, go to the desktop and when I try and run Seasons again (without rebooting) it has a "Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters..." error message that comes up, but rebooting usually solves this problem.
What really irks me is that I played for 2-3 months before any of these issues arose, and all of a sudden its error central.
I'm at my wits end :( , please help