weird graphical issues and crashing!

[dtdustin]

Hi
My version of the Sims 2 has always worked on this computer in the past. I recently did a format and reinstall on my computer, and now the game acts very strangely. First, roughly half of the decorations in the neighborhood are represented as paper folded into the shape of the object, with codes and the object name written all over them. This carries into the create-a-family screen with the walls and mirrors made of this "paper". Then, whenever I try to enter an inhabited lot or add a sim, the music skips and a window pops up saying "the application has crashed. Click OK to terminate". It's all very bizarre. Reinstalling does not help, nor does defragmentation or closing all programs. I also disabled my new video card and tried the onboard one, which had the exact same graphical problems and crashing problem. Please help!

My specs:
Pentium 4 3.04 Ghz
512 Mb DDR2 RAM
ATI Radeon 9250 PCI card-256 Mb ddr VRAM
HP computer system
Windows XP Media Center Edition
DirectX 9.0c
200 GB hard drive, 140 free
updated drivers
No custom content
All patches, all expansion packs

Any insight into this would be much appreciated :-P

[timothy9]

I just installed the game yesterday and am having the extact same probelem detailed above. Basically most of the trees just look like white shapes with black text all over them, and once you try to do anything the game crashes. Any idea what can be done to correct this?

[Mirelly]

Dustin,

Did the game run properly with new display card before? Don't wanna be sarky but is your monitor plugged into the correct socket? (You should be using the card's output socket and not the motherboard socket like wot you used to use :rolleyes: ) Also if you formatted have you run Windows Update and done all the restarts as required ... my last format took most of a weekend with Windows updates, security scans and updates, driver upgrades, defrags and reinstallations of software (includes time taken to tear out hair and say uncomplementary things about Mister Gates' company ;) ). And after all that I still nearly blew it all by plugging a speaker into a microphone socket ... ouch! :eek:


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