Closed Sims 2 and Graphics Cards - the fixes.

@celebkiriedhel

Update on Purple Flashing:

Well, I used Mootilda's hood check and it found a lot of issues. I used the BatBox to clear gossip and wipe corrupted memories, and then did another hood check and had it remove/fix any further issues it found. The list of issues went from almost 400 pages worth to one. I managed to play my normal hood with all my CC without any purple flashing and the family picture with all purple bodies is now normal, but I am still keeping my eye out for it.

I did discover though that my graphics rules seems to be rather confused about RAM. When I use Body Shop, the log shows that there is 4GB of RAM allotted to the application, but when I play the actual game, it goes back to 1GB. Any ideas on how to fix that?

@smart_spell That's fabulous, mootilda's programs are excellent. Regarding the RAM problem: Do you have the same Graphic Rules in both the Config folder and the CSConfig folder? Body Shop and CAS does it's stuff from the CSConfig, the Game does it's thing from the Config folder. (Who knows why they decided they needed two - they're both the same).
Apart from that I'd say I have no clue. I left my game on 1G of Ram and it hasn't seemed to cause any difficulties.

@celebkiriedhel Hi, I think I've found the problem with my game. I haven't got all the folders required for the game. I've added two attachments of someone else's folders/what they should look like and a print screen of what mine look like to compare and contrast. Do you have any idea why I have missing folders and how to fix this? Thanks
   
   

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I'm getting the following message when I try to start The Sims 2:
"Failed to find any DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics adapters in this system!"

At one point, I managed to get a different error (pink and gray fuzzies with a D3DERROR_NOTIMPLEMENTED or something like that), but whatever state it's in, it is stuck in.

Windows 7 64-bit VM in VirtualBox (on a Linux x64 host, FWIW), but I did enable every single accelerated graphics pass-through. I did try to get the second graphics card dedicated to the VM, but I apparently managed to pick the only high-end chipset that won't let me virtualize the PCI bus. I'd really like to get this working in the VM instead of having to reboot the machine to Windows to get to it, since that virtually guarantees that I won't get around to playing.

Attached File(s)

  MACUILXOCHITL-config-log.txt (Size: 9.47 KB / Downloads: 480)

@quetzalcoatl

The last I heard from people who have Linux, is that Sims2 and Neverwhere Nights Creator doesn't work in the VM.

So to start with, if you can convince the VM player to point to the actual graphics card rather than a virtual one, that *may* get you started, but I have no idea on how to do that at all. I'm getting from your message that you've tried and failed, and unfortunately I don't have any Linux experience to be able to help you there - because it is an O/S problem not a graphics rules in the game problem.

My advice would be to go back to EA and see if they have any ideas, other than that - maybe a Linux community may be able to help?

Thank you very much for the help! Took a while to do it (and then to refigure out my resolution settings I had on my previous graphics rules) but once I did, it was fine!

(12-08-2014 11:07 AM)celebkiriedhel Wrote:  @KimberlyTanith It's not a graphics problem.

Questions:

1. When you are trying to go onto a lot - is it a vacant lot or built on? Or is it any and every lot? Is it in Build mode or Sims Mode.
2. Are you playing with a vanilla game or with CC and/or hacks?
3. Are you playing with a new hood?

Hi Kiri,

1. It's any type of lot, built or the ones that come with the game.
2. I'm playing with a vanilla game
3. Yes I'm playing with a new hood, the ones that come with the game.


I've don'e nothing different than with the old pc outside, I installed the game and just play, no created sims no hacks etc and it works fine on the slow xp machine. I dont understand why it won't work on this new windows 8 machine.

Seems like I'll just have to wait for Sims 4 and hope it runs on this machine

@celebkiriedhel I've tried to run my game in the following compatibility modes: Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows 7 but the game just refuses to work. It will begin and then a few minutes into the game a message appears saying the game is no longer working and will now terminate. Do you know what could be preventing it from continuing to run?

p.s. My laptop is running Windows 8.1

@githugus Are you running it as Admin as well? changing compatibility won't help without that.

@celebkiriedhel Yes I've ran it as the admin and it is still crashing. I've even updated my graphics card but its still crashing. Any solutions?