It just...stops. I load up my game, I have all 7 expansion packs, and the game loads brilliantly as well as the Strangetown neighborhood. Then, everything kind of slooooooows dooooown. I've had the game as long as I've had my laptop and I've been able to play it perfectly, albeit having to lower down on my graphics a bit. It's really ticking me off that it decides to do this now. I'm running a virus check right now and it's found nothing so far. Yesterday, I load up Strangetown after many failed attempts before. It works! I'm able to play a teenager and move her to college. Then, I get to the college neighborhood, and it slows down again! I can't click on anything because my cursor doesn't highlight the houses or dorms and the cars on the street don't move. I did dxdiag on my system and it says it has nothing wrong with it, but I'll put it up here...I underlined Vista because that streams a lake of problems. Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.090302-1506) Language: English (Regional Setting: English) System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard System Model: HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1 Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-62 (2 CPUs), ~2.1GHz Memory: 3006MB RAM Page File: 1057MB used, 5189MB available Windows Dir: C:\Windows DirectX Version: DirectX 10 DX Setup Parameters: Not found DxDiag Version: 6.00.6001.18000 32bit Unicode ------------ DxDiag Notes ------------ Display Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 1: No problems found. Sound Tab 2: No problems found. Input Tab: No problems found. -------------------- DirectX Debug Levels -------------------- Direct3D: 0/4 (retail) DirectDraw: 0/4 (retail) DirectInput: 0/5 (retail) DirectMusic: 0/5 (retail) DirectPlay: 0/9 (retail) DirectSound: 0/5 (retail) DirectShow: 0/6 (retail) I'm only 16 and my parents don't understand this technology (nor do I, half the time), but I love my computer and I'd like to keep it working properly.
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M Manufacturer: NVIDIA Chip type: GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0531&SUBSYS_30CF103C&REV_A2 Display Memory: 1065 MB Dedicated Memory: 57 MB Shared Memory: 1007 MB Current Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz) Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll,nvwgf2um.dll Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7713 (English) DDI Version: 10 Driver Attributes: Final Retail Driver Date/Size: 12/4/2008 03:42:00, 5898240 bytes WHQL Logo'd: Yes WHQL Date Stamp: Device Identifier: {D7B71E3E-4671-11CF-AD6D-C41002C2CA35} Vendor ID: 0x10DE Device ID: 0x0531 SubSys ID: 0x30CF103C Revision ID: 0x00A2 Revision ID: 0x00A2 Video Accel: ModeMPEG2_A ModeMPEG2_C ModeVC1_B ModeWMV9_B DDraw Status: Enabled D3D Status: Enabled AGP Status: Enabled I use a fan to cool down my laptop, but it's still slow as ever.
You don't have the greatest graphics chip but it should play . Have you tried lowering the graphics all the wqay to the bare minimum and turning off the setting where you see houses while on the lot? Have you by chance cleaned out the vents of the laptop lately? You might also download the latest updates for your graphics chip from HP and see if that helps. If you play while you're connected to the internet try this. Unplug your internet connection from the laptop, turn off your anti-virus, anti-spyware programs, and turn off your firewall and see if it helps. You don't by chance have any of the smiley central smileycons stuff installed on your computer do you?
