Troubleshooting Got my hopes up..

Got my hopes up..

I'm really not happy at the moment. I've been looking and saving for the Sims 2 for ages now, and today i finally bought it. Got home and installed it all fine on my relatively new laptop, and started to play.

No'1: It is icredibly stupidly slow.

No'2: When i make a family it's quick and works fine... but when i press the tick to actually create them, it freezes and doesn't "respond".

No'3: I haven't actually PLAYED the game at all. Haven't attempted to make a house, because i haven't made a family. I tried playing the Pleasants, and that was fine... just not making my own family. It seems to just stop when it says loading blabla family.

Honestly, i think i'm going to cry! My Sims 1 worked fine on it and it was the Triple Duluxe version... this Sims 2 is Double Duluxe with Nightlife and Celebrations stuff included.

I've uninstalled it twice and reinstalled it 3 times. It's doing my head in!
Any suggestions?

I've tried deleting all big programs.. like Paint shop Pro and Animation shop. And i deleted the Sims 1 before i installed Sims 2 and i have barely anything on it!

The laptop is a Compaq Presario C700 Notebook PC. Intel (R) Pentium (R) Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHz.
Memory (RAM 1014 MB.



I know it seems sad, but i've spent what seems to be a lot on it and got my hopes up. So any suggestions would be good lol.

Thank you very much
Lauren

 

Also it is Vista. But i don't know whether that has anything to do with it.

I was just wondering whether anything like this would have happened before..

Thanks
Lauren.

 

ime of this report: 6/14/2008, 01:31:24
Machine name: LAUREN-PC
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.071023-1545)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Presario C700 Notebook PC
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHz (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 1014MB RAM
Page File: 1621MB used, 660MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode

thought this might help. also i am currently downloading directX as it seems i don't have it... and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows Vista * 32 (exe).

if not, i'm wiping the whole laptop and removing vista and putting on xp! vistas too much hassle, i cant even use it!

thanks,
lauren

 

thanks, can i ask how i go about doing this.. and what is aero lol.
but i'll have a search for it

thanks,
lauren

 

just when i pressed post i realized that aero is the look, or skin... not sure what you call it lol.. but i've changed it back to the windows '98 style.

thanks, i'll let you know how it goes.
lauren