Gameplay Lockups Well Hi. I checked this forum for about an hour and no one else seems to have this problem. The game installs fine and I can sit in build mode for hours making stuff. But when I actually play the game it will crash and restart my computer after about 5-15 minutes. It gives a BSOD but with no explantaion or anything. Any help would be extremely helpful. System specs: CPU-Athlon xp 3200+ Motherboard-Asus A7n8x (Fully updated) Vid card-Ati Radeon 9500 (Catalyst 4.10, Directx 9.0c) Sound Card-Audigy 2 80 gig hard drive 1 gig pc400 ram PS- my pagefile size is maxxed out and I have no cd emulation software thanks
Your system appears to be otherwise adequate in all respects. If your crashes occur more or less at random with no consistency in what you're doing, as a kind of time-release action, and subsequent crashes, in spite of reboots, occur more frequently than the previous one, a possible culprit is heat. Is your room and computer well ventilated? Does your computer have one or more case fans as well as a CPU fan?
My case is well ventilated. seven fans. (3 case, 2 psu, 1 cpu, 1 vid) Yeah I was gonna run that memtest program tonight. Ill let you know.
Even so, it shouldn't spit back something as major as a BSOD. Try going to "Partition:\Windows\LogFiles\" and see if there's anything in there. Open the files in Notepad if there are.
Well I might have it figured out which is still not good. I played it again, but this time I just kept a very simple house and worked like a charm. Before when it was crashing I had very large elaborate houses with lots of stuff in them. so i dunno if thats a software problem or not... what do you guys think?
Normally I would say an issue like that is RAM related, but you seem to have plenty ( heaps more than me )... How much of your RAM is used up by background applications? Perhaps you're somehow using 600Mb of your 1Gb of RAM in the background...
I got excactly the same problem, with catalyst 4.9 and 4.10 drivers. The cat4.8 seems to work fine. I recently upgraded my vid card from 9800pro to x800 xt and the problem remained. I also reinstalled windows2000 and still no luck. Every other game runs fine tho. Games, such as, Battlefield Vietnam, Far Cry, Dark Ages of Camelot. I can play hours and hours without any problems what-so-ever, but if I start Sims 2 with cat 4.9 or 4.10, if reboots my PC in 15 mins. So, for the time being, i am stuck with the 4.8 catalysts. I am pretty sure theres some imcompatibility problem with the newest catalyst drivers and Sims 2. I dont think the problem is the usual too little ventilation or too much o/c. My setup: cpu: AMD XP2600+ (2.08GHz, running at 11x200MHz) mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo v1.x (4.27 drivers and bios1008) mem: 2x512 meg kingston hyperX 3200 (no tweaks, bios suggested timings) dx: directx 9.0c vid: X800 XT (and 9800pro) cat4.8 works, cat4.9/4.10 -> reboot agp: fixed 66Mhz, tried with fastwrites on/off and agp 4x/8x no difference. system: windows 2000 (sp4 + updates) firewall/virus scanner: F-secure internet security 2005 hd: Tens of gigs of free space
You were right. On Windows XP Home Edition and same driver set (catalyst v4.10) and hardware the game runs just fine. I guess one can expect fully functional ATI drivers only on a XP platform for now on.
