Sims 2 Blue Screen and Constant Hourglass Hello all and thank you in advance for reading. I am so incredibly frustrated right now. Every time I try and play Sims 2 the game lags in the blue screen with the hour glass. This happens every 10-20 seconds. When I try and create a family the game crashes to the blue screen of death. I have tried updating drivers, re installing Vista, ending all un necessary processes and setting affinity (i think thats what it was called) since I have a dual core processor. So far nothing has worked. Here are my specs and what a compatability tool has told me about them. CPU Minimum: Pentium III or Athlon You Have: 2 processors running - AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ PASS CPU Speed Minimum: 800 MHz with a T&L capable Video Card (2.0 GHz without Hardware T&L Video Card) You Have: 2.40 GHz Performance Rated at 6.90 GHz PASS System RAM Minimum: 256 MB You Have: 2.0 GB PASS Operating System Minimum: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP (95 & NT not supported) You Have: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic Edition, 32-bit (Build 6000) PASS Video Card Minimum: 32 MB 3D accelerated video card (NVIDIA GeForce2/ATI Radeon VE/Intel Extreme Graphics or better) You Have: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series () PASS Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 32 MB , You have - 262.0 MB Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes DirectX Version Minimum: 8.1 (included) You Have: 10.0 PASS Sound Card Minimum: Yes You Have: Speakers (High Definition Audio PASS Sound Card Driver Version Your driver version number is: 6.0 FYI: Your sound card driver version is provided for your information, but it is not part of this analysis. But proper sound card driver versions are important to the proper operation of your product. Free Disk Space Minimum: 3.5 GB You Have: 65.5 GB PASS DVD Minimum: 8X DVD-ROM (This game contains technology intended to prevent copying that may conflict with some CD/DVD-ROM, CD/DVD-RW and virtual drives.) You Have: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653A SCSI CdRom Device PASS, but the Speed could NOT be analyzed. I'm absolutely perplexed. Any help would be much appriciated!
What does the BSOD actually say is the problem? Something like a error code or if there's a problem with a particular file.
It says ATIdmg or something like that, which would be my video card driver right? I did a clean install of the new drivers.. so I am at a loss for what could be wrong with my video card.
