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sims 2 crash on gforce 6500
Hello,
Everytime I play Sims2 my computer crashes. Afther playing a wile the computer just shutsdown. Windows XP mediacenter crashreport advises to use the lates videocard drivers, wich I use, or to lower hardwareexelaration. I've tried that, but it doesn't work. Help please. greetings |
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sims 2 crash on gforce 6500
Primeleij wrote:
Hello, Everytime I play Sims2 my computer crashes. Afther playing a wile the computer just shutsdown. Windows XP mediacenter crashreport advises to use the lates videocard drivers, wich I use, or to lower hardwareexelaration. I've tried that, but it doesn't work. Help please. greetings Which card? Can we have a system specification please. Can you monitor your temps under load? Could be (in no particular order and with other possibilities), Direct X file issue (use DXDIAG to check files are ok and test video), overheating (quite likely these days), motherboard chipset drivers, BIOS settings issue, hardware conflict, clash with another process/background task running in Windows, bug in game (Sims 2 has patches available) Generic advice to use latest drivers is not always appropriate. Some driver releases will work better on a certain rig than others and it can be tricky to find out which. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0630-3, 28/07/2006 Tested on: 28/07/2006 17:23:13 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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