#1
22nd Apr 2009 at 10:49 PM
This user has the following games installed:
Sims 2, University, Nightlife, Open for Business, Pets, Seasons, Bon Voyage, Free Time, Apartment Life
"Application terminates" 2/3 of the way into lot loading
Ok, so I've recently put in a whole new hard drive and reinstalled ALL of the sims 2 and all expansions, plus kitchen and bath and mansion and garden. I have NO custom content/downloads or even user files. I'm using Windows XP (All service packs) on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ 2.21 GHz and 2 GB of RAM. My video-card is a GeForce 7600 GS, and I installed all directX and video card drivers within the past few days.
Every single lot I've tried, in various neighborhoods, gets 2/3 of the way through the loading screen, then the generic application crashed and terminated error box comes up. It doesn't freeze, just goes to desktop. I went through everything in the Game Problem FAQ. The game always worked perfectly on a system almost exactly the same as this (the only difference is a new hard drive, twice the size of the last one). I tried uninstalling and reinstalling mansion and garden since it removes and recreates all the user files, but that didn't make a difference.