| Nov 22, 2009 |
I recived the sims 2 for my b/day last year. I got it to work after installing the grafics card. It was working perfectly for 2 months, now it takes ages to get onto the games in the first place and every time I try to go into a house or a new familly it freezes. It dosnt now work on my pc, and it freezes on my sisters brand new 8gb laptop. why does this happen?...
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Buy a desktop computer, with at leas 2Ghz processor, 256Mb memmory.
Laptops are rubbish for the sims, It takes up over 3Gb on the hard drive... If you do get it running, dont forget to check out my site http://toxicsims.co.uk/
Well not all laptops are bad for the Sims 2, cause my game plays better on my laptop then my pc. Though I don't know but have u tryed to unistall it and installing it again?
A lot of today's computer manufacturers, especially companies like Compaq, advertise high CPU speeds and kind of forget about the rest. Take my father's old computer as an example. It's a Compaq that came with a Pentium 3 600 mhz CPU. With that, they supplied a mere 64mb of memory and a Savage 4 graphics card. This is not going to run anything well even if the CPU was capable of 6000 mhz. We upgraded it with a voodoo 3 graphics card and 256mb additional memory. That more than doubled the performance and, since memory was rather cheap at the time, it didn't cost a lot either. Anyway, most laptops made today suffer from a similar problem. The manufacturers seem to have finally understood a thing or two about memory, but the graphics controllers are often bad. New laptops from Dell, for instance, often come with an Intel Extreme Graphics chip with no specifications at all. Very few recent games will run well on those machines, even if it comes with a 2 ghz Centrino CPU. If Sims 2 wont run, you should check what graphics card you have. If nothing is specified, do a google search for "SiSoft Sandra", which is a freely available piece of software that can usually tell most of your hardware specs.
Thanks a lot, eveyone.
I thought it was the graphics card as well. Hur....it's shame, isn't it? Just got the game from my sister as a christmas present. Yes, we have tried to uninstall it and install it again already, but it still didn't work. So I guess.....just have to wait to play on other laptops/PC.  Wanna play now though. hur.
I still think you should post your graphics card specifications.
I know a few things about computers, and I *think* I could tell if the card is good enough for SIMS2. Don't give up just yet. Might just be the wrong drivers. -gothtec
you need a good configuration
sims one can be played on a pentium 2 but sims 2 is asking much more a pentium3 whit 256 mb of ram and a geforce 2 64mb and that is the minimum
There is a System Requirements Detector made by one of the most well knows program makers for the sims. You can find it at: http://www.simprograms.com/programs.jsp
Its about half way down the page, it will detect weather your system will support the game, handy for before buying the game.
Just to add that you need the latest directx (I guess you already know this, but anyway) drivers!
QUOTE(Peaktao @ Dec 31 2004, 12:24 AM) I've just bought a laptop recently with Centrino technology and all those thiings. But i still can't play sims 2!!! Unbelieveable! Bascially, i successfully installed it but my computer shut itself down automatically when i tried loading the game. (i can't even go to the main menu). Does anyone have any suggestion, please?  maybe you shout consider buying a new 3D graphic card? that's probebly the problem! so Latest EntriesI recived the sims 2 for my b/day last year. I got it to work after installing the grafics card. It was working perfectly for 2 months, now it takes ages to get onto the games in the first place and every time I try to go into a house or a new familly it freezes. It dosnt now work on my pc, and it freezes on my sisters brand new 8gb laptop.
Did you try and load it onto a different machine? laptops can play a lot of games and i would agree that you should look at the graphics driver first.
In updating graphics drivers you can use the option in devices for Update Driver. This has rarely if ever worked for me however and so i use device manager to identify the card then google the driver and get the latest version. Also look at how much memory is being assigned to the video card in the bios. I am assuming that it is an onboard graphics card and go may be able to assign some more memory if you have it. You also failed to indicate what operating system you are using. Assuming that you are using Vista you may try running the game in Dos compatability mode (I am not sure how old the game is but this sometimes works). Also go onto the official game site and look at the system requirements there may be something there you do NOT have. If there is an faq or problem sheet you may find the game does not support certain cards or processors. Obviously make sure that ALL possible updates have been initiated on your system especially CPU or graphics updates or things like .net etc and directx. I wish you luck in finding a solution as I am aware of just how frustrating it can be when you are expecting to play a new game and you cannot. KJ
I cant for the life of me figure out how to get it up on my laptop either...ahhh please someone help!
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