Closed Sims 2 and Graphics Cards - the fixes.

@Simmerfan28
Intel-MedCPU - will let you run your game on Hi Resolution for a medium CPU setting.
It turns off reflection, ceiling, and the LivePiP to conserve CPU, and also does Object Hiding so you're not going to see objects that are not on the same floor as you are currently on. This cuts down on CPU - or processing, while letting you have better pictures.

It IS normal for games to lag with high-population of sims on a lot, a large lot, and running the game on Speed 3. This is because you are increasing the processing required and that puts pressure on your cpu.

As Dumb downed as it can get? The medCPU is the one you want to use, and Yes it is normal to lag when you make your PC do a lot of work.

Ah, okay now I understand xD thank you.

@Simmerfan28 No worries! I hope you enjoy your game, that's the important thing.

Hello, I have The Sims 2 ultimate collection, the one that was available for free by Origin. It keeps crashing - I'm trying to follow your instructions to get a fix but I'm stuck on the config-log on the graphics part. I don't have a dual card and I'm not sure why it's saying "NOT FOUND IN DATABASE" next to the "Name (database). See below:

=== Graphics device info ===
Number: 0
Name (driver): Intel® HD Graphics
Name (database): Intel® HD Graphics <<NOT FOUND IN DATABASE!>>
Vendor: Intel
Chipset: Vendor: 8086, Device: 0106, Board: 06491025, Chipset: 0009
Driver: igdumd32.dll, Version: 9.17.10.3347, GUID: D7B78E66-4246-11CF-867E-4326B7C2C435
Driver version: 3347
Monitor: \\.\DISPLAY1
Monitor aspect: 1.782383, 16:9
Screen mode: 1366x768x32BPP,60Hz
Texture memory: 1760MB
HW T&L: Fixed function:1 Programmable:3.0
Pixel program: 3.0
Texture stages: 8
AppControlledAA: 1


I found that my graphics log text file is empty much like many of my other text files in my logs. Is this what causing the crashes? As you can probably already tell, I'm new to this and not sure what I am doing. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

@githugus have you tried the graphics rules maker linked at the top of every page in this thread?

@celebkiriedhel oh lol i'm sorry, I forgot to attach my files xD
here it is, CSconfig and config fodlers too

Attached File(s)

  VIKA-config-log.txt (Size: 10.29 KB / Downloads: 369)
  CSConfig.rar (Size: 28.52 KB / Downloads: 451)
  Config.rar (Size: 32.63 KB / Downloads: 459)

@leefish I just tried the link you said and my game now refuses to start - the graphics aren't the problem. The game runs fine if I'm just playing in a household - If I try to visit a different lot then the game crashes

Thanks Kiri. Neither NVidia fix works for me unfortunately - both result in the game not booting and the 'Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c' error message. I've attached the full config-log this time.

Attached File(s)

  ORANGEBOX-config-log.txt (Size: 10.28 KB / Downloads: 420)

This really helped in a big way, thanks for sharing your know-how.

I see no difference from the normal Intel graphics rules to the Intel med cpu rules.