The Sims 2, Freeze/stop Loading
Apr 16, 2008
I just purchased a brand new Dell laptop with Vista, and whenever I try to create a new family, it will freeze. It will also freeze/stop loading when
-I try and load some households
-I go downtown
And sometimes, I will completely load a household, but the screen (minus the control panel) will be black, and the music will be playing, but nothing will show up. I have already uninstalled and reinstalled many times, and this still happens. I played these games on my old computer and this never happened.
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Mar 17, 2009
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Mar 15, 2008
I have a problem with this graphic card, when I run a game with better graphic details. My computer freeze for 2-5 second, next is black screen for 2seconds(as monitor is shuted down) and next is black screen while i don't stop the game. Next I see this-> I hope that you solve my problem(and see that image) BTW: if this problem was solved on this forum sorry, but on system instantForum i was never been and i don't know how it control. Or if this post is in bad category please send message for me when you move it.
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Jun 8, 2008
New computer. Vista Home Premium. FSX continually stops loading and have to restart the loading process. Six times to get it loaded, but all sytems not functioning. Loaded Accelerator crashed whole system had to do repair of FSX and start over again with continual stoppage. Don't know where to go from here. It worked fine with XP
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Aug 6, 2008
First after doing an ordinary restart, my vista (ultimate) gets stuck for a LONG time at the loading screen and does not move, with the green loading bars. this happens every time i try to restart. i pop in my original vista disk and start the repair process...it says it found something wrong with my startup and it found what was wrong and that it was repaired. after this i get the message NTLDR, which is a whole nother problem. i ran the below to fix the NTLDR...
1. Put the Windows Vista installation disc in the disc drive, and then start the computer.
2. Press a key when you are prompted.
3. Select a language, a time, a currency, a keyboard or an input method, and then click Next.
4. Click Repair your computer............
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Mar 23, 2008
how to run the sims 2 on vista? I have installed it but there is an "compatibility problem" error and I can't play the game. I have downloaded a patch to it but did not help. Only splash screen is on the screen and then system freezes strangely, I can't run task manger nor reebot my computer even turn it off from the start menu, i can only reset it by pressing the button on the tower
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Aug 12, 2008
I Have Sims 2 and it worked perfectly fine month ago and all of sudden it keeps crashing.
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Jul 18, 2009
I have The Sims 2, I always use to play it, but my other laptop broke and I got this one and I tried installing the sims 2! But it stops on disc 1, 18%! Unless I eject and click retry it loads up 1% I kept doing that once and when it finally hit 100% it did nothing and went off for some reason!
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Dec 12, 2008
I had a Windows XP, with the xp theme, pointers, backgrounds, screen savers etc, and i had the sims 2 installed on it, it was working good, but a bit slow, i sent my computer to get formatted, when i got my pc again, some changes were on it, it changed to vista screen savers, wallpapers, pointers and theme, but when i opened Start and chose run and typed DXDIAG, i still see windows xp pro, and my system became Black xp and the formatter installed Vista Inspirat 2 1.0, when i installed the sims 2 again, it reaches 1% and (an error occurred while copying the file (***/***/***) from the media.
press retry to retry copying the file or cancel to cancel the installation) When I press retry, the same window with the error appears again, again, again and again. When I press cancel the installation cancels. What should I do? Should i uninstall the vista inspirat, or the sims 2 wont work on my pc?
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May 15, 2010
I used to have it on my computer.
But last time I tried to play it didn't work.
It said that I have to re-install it. But when I put the disc in it say that it cant find the location folder.
So I tried to un-install, but it say I cant do that.
I looked through previous threads here, and found one about how to delete it from the start menu -> regedit etc.
Follewed the intstructions, but I dont have a EA game folder, Maxis folder or any other folder for the game.
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Nov 23, 2008
Alright, so I know I have all the updated drivers for my audio and video.I know Sims 2 can work on my laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. I have an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 Ghz 3GB RAM. 32 Bit OS. (anything else you need to know?)
I'll open Sims 2, loads fast. I click on a neighborhood, and the trees are white and have words on them, like coding. I go to make a family, the brick isn't showing up either. It's white with the words too. Things work for a few seconds, then a message pops up and says "Application has crashed. The application will now terminate." I click OK, and it closes. I've tried installing and uninstalling. I've downloaded and installed the patches, nothing seems to work.
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Apr 10, 2008
We can not play either Sims 1 or 2 on our new Dell PC with Home Vista.
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Apr 15, 2009
Its vista premium sp1: 3 gigs of ram: NVIDIA GEFORCE 6150 se Graphics: AMD ATHLON X2 4400 dual core processor
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Feb 28, 2009
this is an old issue some ppl have had, unfortunately none of the answers received have helped me with my current issue...i upgraded my PC, and with that i went from Vista 32bit to Vista 64bit, and re-installed all the old games i had on my old machine onto the new one. i installed the main game for Sims2 (no expansions installed yet) and tried to run it and nothing happens. i ran it in compatibilty mode and nothing happens. i ran it in both comp. mode and as admin and nothing happens. i had no problem playing it on my old machine, and this one is 100x better, but Sims simply wont start. every other game i tried, from GTA to Crisis to CoH to AoC works fine, only Sims wont even start. i tried the patch at the Sims site and it says my Sims game is up to date. i cant believe that going from 32bit to 64bit would make such a difference.
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Mar 23, 2008
My Sims 2 game will not work. When I first used it it told me I needed a patch from the maxis website, so I downloaded it. When I start the game now it freezes at the beginning where it says Sims 2. My computer is a Gateway with Windows Home Vista Premium. It has a AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.60 GHz.
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Mar 15, 2008
I bought sims 2 to play on my Toshiba laptop, which runs with Vista, and it worked fine for aaaages, but then one day when i took my sim lady downtown, it froze while loading the downtown screen, and when i restarted and re-opened that family, it wouldnt work and was constantly frozen. since then it crashed everytime i tried starting sims or saving a family id made. it doesnt even stay on long enough to move a family into a house. I dont get an error message, it just stops loading or freezes. When i ctrl alt and del it says the programme is not responding. I bought sims seasons, and im still having the same problem. i have ran numerous virus checks and my laptop is fine. ive also uninstalled and reinstalled many times. Ive also tried changing game compatability without success. Ive gone as far as going and buying a new sims 2!
Here are my directX Diagnostics..
System Information
Time of this report: 3/15/2008, 14:15:51
Machine name: BETHANYGEORGIA
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.071023-1545)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
System Model: Satellite L40..........
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Aug 20, 2008
Well I wanted to run the Sims 2, Pets,Seasons and Open for Business on Vista 32, can I?
Here are my specs,
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name AMYROCKS-PC
System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061....
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Oct 10, 2008
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I'm having some major problems with the sims 2. and it seems that every person with vista is having the same problem. crashes... But the thing is the game works fine at certain times. I can go in to the neighborhood build houses even play the game for hours on end certain days. and then it just stops working altogether. there are no problems with my harddrive space as i have 137 gigs left, and i really dont think that the game would really need more space. and i know it doesn't. I'm running vista home basic, and the really frustration part is i know quite a bit of info on this computer. its a dell inspiron 1525 laptop i have played many games on it and they all work fine. but when i try to load a game that i had already previously saved it works and then other times when i go into it all the building tools launch but the screen for the actual house stays black and then i have to start the task manager to end the game. i have tried running it as an administrator and i still have the same problem. i had no problems with installing the game at all. i am almost positive it is my video card and after i post this im going to test it on can you run it?
i've read alot of similiar problems but none of them said that the game actually worked for a while. the game works for hours on certain days ( as i have said before) and then some days it doesnt work at all. I don't understand why it would work one day and not the next. i have the real version of the sims 2 double delux its not a hack so that isnt the problem. I am running on my system ( more in depth than i had previously said )
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I’ve tried a lot of stuff and am hoping for further insight.
Specs.
Vista Home Premium 32bit
HP Pavilion a1357c
AMD64 x 2 4200 2.2ghz
3 g ram
Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT 512
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