Please Help Processor: Intel Celeron D 340, 2933 MHz System Memory RAM: 512MB Windows Version: Windows XP Free Hard Disk Space: 12.3GB Total Hard Disk Space: 19.5BG DirectX Version: 9 Display Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200/AGP/SSE2 Game Detail:Sims 2 CD Version no expansion packs Nature of problem: Installed fine. Starts up fast. About 10 to 20 seconds into either playing a family or creating a new one the graffics go crazy. Things dissapear, colors mesh together, screen goes color black color black. Or it just freezes every 10 seconds. I ran sims2 system checker and it said I had everything needed to play this game. Have I done something wrong?
Hey, wee mousie! Just saw your post. What you're describing (very well, I might add!) is the sort of thing that happens when a Display Adapter starts getting too hot. They get hot when they work ... like anything, or anyone, else. The harder it has to work the hotter it gets. The Sims puts a lot of demands on the display device. It's possible that the game has set the display settings a wee bit too high when it installed. Try reducing everything down to the lowest setting possible. Get to the neighborhood screen and click the Option Button (or press F5 on the keyboard) Then click the Display button and on that panel choose the lowest setting for everything that has a choice available. If everything is already at the lowest setting ... oops! If that helps then we know we're on the right track. So can you try that first, OK?
That worked great as far as I can tell. I ran it for about 2 minutes then came back to tell you. I figured if it ran for more then 20 seconds that was the problem lol. Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. I love sims so much and I was so scared it just wasn't going to work. I JUST bought this computer like 3 days ago for sims 2. I was all OMG if I just spent 300 something dollors to play this game and it dosen't work lol. Anyway thank you so much again! I'm gonna go play a while and see if I run into any troubles.
Save up and buy a fancier graphics card (or get some big beefy fans to suck all the hot air out the case ... I'm not kidding, I need ear defenders when mine gets going ... wish I could afford something quieter). Meanwhile stick to playing small families (like mom, pop and 1 or 2 kids) in small houses. Try not to go mad with flowers or fences (in fact avoid flowers and bushes completely. Flowers generate butterflies and bees and even fancy-pants machines start to chug when there are lot of flowers ... our SimMaster in residence KatAnubis likes sim-gardening and she has a very fancy graphics card but when she's sim gardening I heard that the street lights in her end of town go a bit dim Keep it simple and you should be able to enjoy a great deal of the game. You could also improve things a lot by adding more memory when you can afford it ... it's quite cheap ... cheaper than a video card Meanwhile you'd be amazed what an extra system fan for 10-20 bucks will do ... mind you it'll need to fitted inside so factor that in ... I don't see you as a technical type somehow
