i just got the sims 2 and it is very choppy when i play it....almost to the point to where i cant play it, the only way i can even get it playable is playing the game thru window mode and not fullscreen. sure it works fine then but id much rather play it fullscreen. and its not my computer cuz i have more than enough to power the game. hopefully its just a glitch that a simple patch can fix but i really want to know whats going on and if anyone else is having the same problem.......by the way, this game rocks, i highly recommend this game to every one who enjoyed playing the first sims.

ok it might have been a hardware problem cuz now that i upgraded, it works just fine...

How

Hi I was just wondering what exactly you upgraded because I am experiencing a similar problem. If you could reply I would be very grateful.
Thanx

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choppy

i found it choppy but i went to nvidia.com and got the 61.77 drivers that works with most nvidia cards. it improved quite a lot but still gets choppy when theres a lot goin on. my spec should be able to run it better as Quake 3 runs sweet on it.

Im haivng real trouble with this. Im running a high spec comp, more than enough for the game, but after about 7 seconds on the main page once the game has loaded, it just locks up. The whole computer freezes, and there is no way of gettin out of it as it seems to lock up the mouse and keyboard too, forcing a reset. Has anyone else had this and how can i improve it? - i have the latest drivers, so i dont think thats the prob!

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ok i have a bad chopping problem like some of you have or had. this is my graphics card...
Nvidia GeForce4 mx 440 with AGP8x

I think I installed 66.17 too, but it still choops, PLEASE HELP!

i think i can help everyone. theres this kewl guy who alters the latest versions of drivers to optimise them. My version froze after a few seconds, these new drivers fixed that problem, so im sure they can help the choppy ness.

Click here

how do i do it? i sleceted my OS but which one should i download? and what is a mirror?

u go to the driver brand u want. then click on the driver u want for ur grahics card, then ur OS. the mirrors are site which host the download, since it wud cost the guy loads to host them all himself. just pick one, anyone will do, and download it. extract it. and theres probs a read me in there. if not.... go to control panel/system/ hardware/ device manager / display adaptors (ur graphics card will be listed and its current driver) double click it / click the driver tab / update driver / from specified location / then click on browse and click on the file u downloaded and extracted(sumin like Crogramfiles: omega - or sumin) and then wen u find the file, say install driver. it will be like "warning this driver isnt signed by microsoft, even tho our drivers will probs cause more problems than if u installed a virus into ur windows folder" ...or sumin like that. but u say continue anyway, and make sure u always copy the files, cuz if u stop 1/2 way, or dont copy one of the new ones accross (wen it warns u for sum reason) ...ill have to spend the next 2 hours of my life typing up to tell u how to fix it.

Which one would i click on? you know what type of grafix xcard i have and i have windows xp, and what should i save it to/as

thnkxx

when i got an upgrade i upgraded my proccesor to a AMD 64 3000+ and it worked a whole lot better. the stupid thing was that i had an AMD Athlon 2500+ and it ran like crapand another thing is my video card that has 256mb of ram on it and it doesnt seem like it. performance wise i mean. is that GeForce 5600 and good? or should i consider upgrading soon, and if so should i change to ATI? and another thing, in the bios there is a option called aperture size and sinse i have a 256 video card i thought that i should put it at 256 but i dont notice a performance chance. but yeah thats all i wanted to know for now, any info would help. thanks

dubs, just save it sumwhere. just click on any of the mirrors, it duznt matter which one within the section for ur card and OS as theyre all the same file. download sites use mirrors so that if one goes down, u can use another and so that it spreads the downloads over many servers instead of one. save it anywhere u want for now. like in my "documents" "dubs folder" or anything that takes ur fancy. then extract it and such. on the newer ones, hes made an auto installer too since hes gettin better at coding. So just download. extract. run it. and if ur lucky it'l install itslef automatically when u open it.

BloodRaven, i don't think it was ur processor 'cos i have a duron1600 and it runs smoothly but....
i do have a similar problem to you, Deansta. but mine only freezes when some skill levels increase. I notice a blue light starts appearing abovemy head but when gets to the size of a screw head(on a 19" @ 1024) it stops.

oooo. duno wots that about. the graphics drivers from omega sorted mine out fine. runs as smooth as a hovercraft XD

hmm, i got the omega drivers and all it did was make my games run choppy....it was wierd.

very weird. a few of my mates used them and it fixed theres. sos bout that!

hi i've got the sims 2 a few days ago and when ever i go to play it a box saying "the application has crashed it will now terminate" if anyone knows how to fix this please please let me know!

yes this has also happend to me as well, but it only happend a few times and stoppped, so i never found out what went wrong.

Same problem

i have the exact same problem tell me when u have fixed it cuz omg i really wanna play this game without it keep locking up like this...please and thankyou

email me at damn_ur_a_hottie@hotmail.com