The Sims

[DeFrag]

Hey,

Has anyone been able to get The Sims to run on their G400? Whenever I try to run it, it crashes on the blue loading screen at some Personality Chareteristics thing every time. It Sux! Anyone have a clue?
thanks
-DeFrag


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Tekram P6B40-A4X
Intel 440BX Chipset
128 Meg 100mhz RAM
Pentium III 450mhz
Matrox Millenium G400 32m
DirectX 7.0a
SB Live! Value
Windows98 SE
300w power supply
IRQ's

[xippo]

The sims runs with no problems.

What have you done to try to fix the problem?

xippo

[Chasbo]

No problems here either, running in both Win98 SE and Win2000.

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Chuck

Dual Booting Win98se and Win2000 Pro on:

PIII 500, Abit BH6, 256MB Ram, G400 Max,
2 IBM 14.4GB 7200RPM HD, Diamond Fireport 20, Teac 32x SCSi CD-Rom, Panasonic 2x SCSI CD-R, SCSI Jaz & Zip Drives, SoundBlaster 512, Linksys LNE100TX NIC, 384/128 DSL Connection

[burre burrito]

well, just so you know im running it without any problems at all.

[DeFrag]

Well, Ive gone to EA's website, they recommended I added the line -w to my Sims shortcut, I tried it and that made it run in Windowed mode, it still crashed but this time it gives me an error, they have a patch that supposedly fixes the problem i have. but its only for WinDVD users and I dont have WinDVD and the patch doesnt do anyting. Ive tried reinstalling 3 times. Ive tried disabling my sound, Ive tried other Graphix drivers. Ive tried almost everything. Why in the world doesnt it run? I posted on the message boards at thesims.com but no one replied, someone posted a similiar message today as well, still no replies. This game looks really cool. I just wish I could get it to run!

-DeFrag

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Tekram P6B40-A4X
Intel 440BX Chipset
128 Meg 100mhz RAM
Pentium III 450mhz
Matrox Millenium G400 32m
DirectX 7.0a
SB Live! Value
Windows98 SE
300w power supply
IRQ's

[Targon]

Well, for starters, have you verified that you can copy the contents of the CD to your hard drive? This will verify that your CD-ROM drive can read the CD without a problem. I've been running the Sims with 5.50 and then 5.52 without any problem, so it's probably not a problem with your vid card. Did you try checking your sound card?

[Frankfurt]

Before i had installed win2k, it worked great on win98se with the 5.30 (maybe 5.52 cant remember) drivers and on win2k with the 5.03 drivers it runs fine as well. I would suggest doing what targon said, normally that is a very good way to see that it isn't a problem with your cd rom drive

Frankfurt

[DeFrag]

k thanks, i will try that tommorow. Right now its 12AM and i should be getting to bed. Night all!

-DeFrag

[RAB]

You say you tried several video drivers. Did you use the Matrox uninstaller between each version? Matrox drivers have to be fully removed before loading any new ones or you end up with problems like yours. I don't have the Sims yet, so I can't say this is the problem, but it sound like it could be.

RAB

[DeFrag]

Yup, I used the uninstaller. When I get back from school today I will test diffrent AGP Aperature settings as well. (Hey! It could happen!) But till then, keep throwing out ideas to me. Much appreciated

-DeFrag

[DeFrag]

Well, I was able to copy the CD to my Harddrive, I even installed "The Sims" from my hardrive. Didnt work. I also tried messing with AGP Aperature. no affect. Maxis tech support really sucks btw, and to be honest THe Official Matrox Forums arent as good as these ;p ANy more ideas?

-DeFrag

PS: DId you know MAXIS didnt even Beta test this game!? No wonder so many bugs

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Tekram P6B40-A4X
Intel 440BX Chipset
128 Meg 100mhz RAM
Pentium III 450mhz
Matrox Millenium G400 32m
DirectX 7.0a
SB Live! Value
Windows98 SE
300w power supply
IRQ's

[LAMFDTK]

Why bother this game sucks. Its a gigapet you know those stupid electronic virtual pets....that beep when they need food or "love" and die when you don't feed them...

I have this game and its the exact same thing. BTW it works but its code is a mess

[xippo@work]

Return the game and forget about it. I played it straight for 3 days and got sick of it. How many times can you do the same thing over and over again before you get sick of it. Get up, goto work, eat, clean, study, talk to your neighbor. It's like the movie ground hog day. lol

Back to UT.

xippo