Hello!
I was naive to think that my new gaming laptop (I7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1060 on Windows 10) was going to allow me to play The Sims 2 like never before. Well, now I can't play at all!
The problem is flashing pink both in-lot and on the neighborhood screen, and *very* frequent crashes. It's practically impossible to play.
I am not playing UC, but I have all the expansion and stuff packs installed separately. So I launch the game from Sims2EP9.exe (Mansion and Garden Stuff)
What I have tried so far:
-Allowing the app to use more than 2 GB RAM through CFF explorer.
-Did the 4 GB patch.
-Did the data execution prevention exclusion.
-Updated the directX.
-Tried to let Graphic Rules Maker do its magic.
-When that did not work, edited the Graphic Rules.sgr myself:
*to allow high resolution
*to allow texture memory the same as my Dxdiag states (6061 MB)
-I made the game start in windowed mode by adding -w to the shortcut
-To tackle possible multi-core problems I set the affinity of the game to one core.
-My anti-alias is on.
-I introduced my graphics card to the Video Cards.sgr file
-Using an empty Groups cache file did delay the crash only for a little while.
-When the game started crashing while loading the neighborhood, deleting the NeighborhoodManager before starting the game allowed me to load the neighborhood. But after a while it will definitely flash purple.
When I try to run the game in compatilibity mode and as the administrator, I get the directx error.
When I try to start Graphic Rules Maker as the administrator, it "Cannot find Graphic Rules files." but when I run it normally it immediately does find them, yet I'm not sure if then it successfully makes all the changes.
I have 12 GB of CC in my downloads folder; but I have played the game with almost twice this size CC on my old, windows 7 computer without a problem for many years.
Downgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 7 is also not an option, since I don't want to risk removing drivers that I may not be able to find compatible with Windows 7. Such a downgrade probably would be very problematic; since the laptop was shipped with Windows 10.
I may have tried many other things that I might have forgotten to mention here... Still pink flashes, still crashing. I'm still willing to try many other solutions. Sims 2 is quite important to me and it's saddening that it's almost becoming one of those old games that aren't playable anymore due to their incompatilibity with newer systems. I really hope there is a solution for this.
For now, the problem seems to be a texture memory issue and how the game handles it with my NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card and Windows 10. It feels like there should be specific tweaks to allow them to work harmoniously together; but spotting that tweak seems to be too advanced for me! I just can't point where exactly the problem is.
Could anyone help me further with it?
Thanks in advance!
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LAPTOP-RP7UKD1I-config-log.txt (Size: 10.25 KB / Downloads: 5)
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Graphics Rules.sgr.txt (Size: 33.31 KB / Downloads: 5)
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Video Cards.sgr.txt (Size: 26.74 KB / Downloads: 3)
I was naive to think that my new gaming laptop (I7 7700HQ 2.8GHZ, 16 GB RAM, GTX 1060 on Windows 10) was going to allow me to play The Sims 2 like never before. Well, now I can't play at all!
The problem is flashing pink both in-lot and on the neighborhood screen, and *very* frequent crashes. It's practically impossible to play.
I am not playing UC, but I have all the expansion and stuff packs installed separately. So I launch the game from Sims2EP9.exe (Mansion and Garden Stuff)
What I have tried so far:
-Allowing the app to use more than 2 GB RAM through CFF explorer.
-Did the 4 GB patch.
-Did the data execution prevention exclusion.
-Updated the directX.
-Tried to let Graphic Rules Maker do its magic.
-When that did not work, edited the Graphic Rules.sgr myself:
*to allow high resolution
*to allow texture memory the same as my Dxdiag states (6061 MB)
-I made the game start in windowed mode by adding -w to the shortcut
-To tackle possible multi-core problems I set the affinity of the game to one core.
-My anti-alias is on.
-I introduced my graphics card to the Video Cards.sgr file
-Using an empty Groups cache file did delay the crash only for a little while.
-When the game started crashing while loading the neighborhood, deleting the NeighborhoodManager before starting the game allowed me to load the neighborhood. But after a while it will definitely flash purple.
When I try to run the game in compatilibity mode and as the administrator, I get the directx error.
When I try to start Graphic Rules Maker as the administrator, it "Cannot find Graphic Rules files." but when I run it normally it immediately does find them, yet I'm not sure if then it successfully makes all the changes.
I have 12 GB of CC in my downloads folder; but I have played the game with almost twice this size CC on my old, windows 7 computer without a problem for many years.
Downgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 7 is also not an option, since I don't want to risk removing drivers that I may not be able to find compatible with Windows 7. Such a downgrade probably would be very problematic; since the laptop was shipped with Windows 10.
I may have tried many other things that I might have forgotten to mention here... Still pink flashes, still crashing. I'm still willing to try many other solutions. Sims 2 is quite important to me and it's saddening that it's almost becoming one of those old games that aren't playable anymore due to their incompatilibity with newer systems. I really hope there is a solution for this.
For now, the problem seems to be a texture memory issue and how the game handles it with my NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card and Windows 10. It feels like there should be specific tweaks to allow them to work harmoniously together; but spotting that tweak seems to be too advanced for me! I just can't point where exactly the problem is.
Could anyone help me further with it?
Thanks in advance!
LAPTOP-RP7UKD1I-config-log.txt (Size: 10.25 KB / Downloads: 5)
Graphics Rules.sgr.txt (Size: 33.31 KB / Downloads: 5)
Video Cards.sgr.txt (Size: 26.74 KB / Downloads: 3)