Sims Installation Problems. System Specs Included. Please Help! Ok...heres my issue. First of all I have all the Sims expansions (except for all the fun stuff packs). When I load them all they are loaded in the order of there release and they all load fine without any error codes or anything. Now before I even go to play them I reboot my machine. From this point forth every time I reboot the computer, Windows runs incredibly slow. To the point where it is unusable. All my icons in the bottom right corner take three times as long to load and anytime I try to access anything, it freezes for a minute or two before it registers that I had clicked on anything. This happens even when I access the task manager using ctrl-alt-delete. It happens also when I go to shut it down. Last time it did this as well but I didnt know at the time that it was the sims 2 that was the problem. I figured I had caught a virus or something. Nothing would fix it so I F-disked my machine. This last time I was able to do a system restore to the day before and it removed the Sims 2 and fixed the problem. Thats all good and dandy but I want to play my Sims!!!! My next step is to install each individually and then check the system out to see if I can pinpoint which expansion may be causing the problem. Any help that anyone could offer would be much appreciated!!! Anna Schutze P.S. Here are my system specs ------------------ System Information ------------------ Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519) Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz Memory: 1470MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904) Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Display Memory: 256.0 MB Driver Name: nv4_disp.dll Driver Version: 6.14.0010.8205 (English) Driver Date/Size: 1/24/2006 19:15:00, 3955328 bytes Free Space: 112.2 GB Total Space: 183.3 GB
New info... So it doesn't appear to be any one expantion. Basically each one I load on slows my opperating sysem down more and more. This is including the base game as well. I've got just it loaded right now without to much trouble. BTW the game runs perfect once the computer gets it moving. The computer itself runs fine after about ten minutes of being started up. If I load any more expantions its fine after about a half an hour. Any help would be appreciated, even links to other sites where I might find a solution would be great. (I have looked on EA and found nothing.) Could it be a bad copy? My processor maybe?
EA Support I wrote EA and they had me update my video drivers. No change at all. Come on now guys. Can anyone help me at all?! Been on here for a few days, had 45 views and nobody has anything to say? Not so much as a "Hey I saw a problem similar on this forum heres the link."? Any response at all would be most appreciated! Anna Schutze
