The Sims and G400MAX....

[GT98]

Well I picked this game up this afternoon and it looks like Maxis has another winner on its hands, but the problem I have is that when ever I try to quit and save the game or change the tunes on the radio the game crashes out to the desktop....Anyone else having these problems? I looke over at the sims website and bbs and had no luck.

Scott


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Abit BH6 with a P3-450@558,128mb RAM,G400 MAX,SB Live!, Optiquest V95 19in montor, Asus 40x CD-ROM, Aopen 5x DVD-ROM, 2x CDR,SupraMax 56k modem, Win98 SE on Western Digital 30.7GB, Win2000 on a WD 13 GB HDD

[Ceebee]

Hi,

I have virtually the same system as you and are getting the same problems, Except I only have a DVD rom, I'm running win 98 on a 6.4 and Win2000 on a 3.2, SB live running the latest livewire software (its different that the one shipped with the CD) and a G400 MAX dual head! with a Abit BX6 MB and 256 MB ram, P3500.

There are a lot of people having problems with the sims just nice to see someone with my hardware! Maxis are not very helpfull to say the least! at the moment I think there are a number of problems G400 drivers are not stable with the sims in 98 or win2K also the SB live is causing all kinds of problems! In the Sims crashes at the same point as yourself, in Re-Volt crashes when cars hit a wall and seem to get the same WAV playing all over until you CTD. This didn't happen with the AWE64!


Ceebee

[BreadFan]

I am having issues with The Sims also, but my issues seem to be different from the both of you. Your problems could stem from a program called WinDVD or something like that. Supposedly this program conflicts with the game. Maxis recommends that you uninstall the program and The Sims should work fine. Also, if you are running your desktop in 32 bit color, you should change it to 16 bit color. Hope this helps.

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BreadFan

Soyo SY-6BA+IV , Pentium III 500MHz, SoundBlaster Live Value, 20.5gb IBM 34 GXP ATA/66 hard drive, 384mb PC100 RAM, 3Com 3C905 TX 10/100 PCI NIC, and a freakin' awesome Matrox G400Max!!

[Dyre]

My friend has a G400 DH 32 on a pII 300 and he doesnt have any of these problems, just so you know its working for some...

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PIII 450 @ 504
generic BX motherboard
G400 MAX : )
GlobalWin VOS32!
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 33
Maxtor 13 gig UDMA 66
Creative 36x CD-ROM
96 megs PC100 RAM
128 megs PC133 ECC RAM
NetGear 10/100
Soundblaster 32 AWE
Diamond SupraExpress 56k
Logitech Wireless Desktop (best $50 ive ever spent)
1 92mm Sunon Fan
4 80mm Sunon Fan's

[GT98]

I did some more looking around on the Maxis Web Site, and found out about the problem with WinDVD..I downloaded the patch that is out on the site and it runs fawlessly now.

Scott


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Abit BH6 with a P3-450@558,128mb RAM,G400 MAX,SB Live!, Optiquest V95 19in montor, Asus 40x CD-ROM, Aopen 5x DVD-ROM, 2x CDR,SupraMax 56k modem, Win98 SE on Western Digital 30.7GB, Win2000 on a WD 13 GB HDD