Established Sims 2 suddenly having problems I recently bought a brand new Gateway laptop and installed Sims 2 on it. I had been playing S2 on my desktop but it got too full. I transfered all my downloads and such over to the new puter and everything has worked fine for the past few weeks. I have Vista Home Premium (6) Processor - Intel T2060 @ 1.6 G (2 CPUs) ` 1.6GHz 1014 Mg RAM DX 10 80G free space I have only Sims 2 installed. No explansions yet. I have quite a bit of custom content which has not been a problem. Perhaps until now. I am building a mansion from the In Death series (mysteries) and have been struggling with making my version fit the author's descriptions of the rooms and their locations. I have two stories and a yard full of flowers and walks and trees. Everything was working fine when I closed down the program the last time. People were moving and everything. The next time I went to open the program it got to the point at which I select a neighborhood but wouldn't let me go into one. Not any of them. The mouse moves ok so the whole puter doesn't freeze at that point, just the game. I have only been working on the Pleasantview neighborhood since the switchover. When I do a ctrl-alt-del, the whole game crashes. I have been having trouble with the wardrobes not showing the clothes my sims purchase except sporadically. Is there a limit to the number a sim can own? This has been going on for a while so I doubt the two problems are related. I sure hope someone can help me. Jeanne
hi I think if you are building large lots and lots of furniture and fences and gardens, That you need more ram like 2 gb the more the better. And what are your video card specs ?
Odin is correct. Also 1GB RAM isn't much when running Vista. Try forcing things by this: Drag the folder named: My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\ onto the desktop (so that it is moved out of My Documents folder) Make sure it is moved and not copied. If necessary delete the version of EA Games\The Sims in My Documents once you are sure you have a copy of it on the desktop. Now restart the game and it will rebuild a new folder with the original neighborhoods and no custom content. See if the game works ... If it does then it is safe to assume your original neighborhood has exploded and is probably beyond repair. If the game still does not work we need to re-examine the conditions of your hardware and software. Post a dxdiag report (see here for what we need)
