![]() ![]() I also know a lot of people turn off their antivirus when they run the game. It also does all sorts of other handy things! CCleaner is a good free program that allows you to see what starts at Windows startup and disable anything you don't want or need. You may also have other programs running in the background that aren't spyware as such but load at startup whether you need them or not. There are some other ones out there (M$'s anti-spyware tool is said to be good, surprisingly), but those are two I'm very familiar with. ![]() Have you checked for spyware recently? If you haven't, look up the programs Ad-Aware and Spybot: Search and Destroy. Your operating system will take a fair bit of it, as will any other programs you have open at the time-like antivirus and firewall-but even then I think you should have a more than that left over. Is that something that will be taken care of with the tools you mention, or is there another way to look into/fix it? Which doesn't seem like very much, and indeed I've gotten notifications once or twice about the lack of system memory, but I don't know what's stealing it all. One final question: I noticed on the error log it says If not, at least my computer will run better, and I may end up writing a letter to Eaxis. Hopefully at the end of it I'll have a working game again. :P In order, and maybe over the course of a few days, since I will be a bit busy. I think I'm just going to do everything you say. Thanks much, both for the advice and the tool recs. If all of this comes up clean and defragging doesn't help, you may be best off with uninstalling, defragging, and reinstalling the whole lot from the base game up. I've seen suggestions ranging from 5% to 20%, but at least 10% should mostly keep you from problems. Your computer needs that space to shuffle things around. Make certain you have enough free space on your hard drive. I recommend JKDefrag as it's much faster than the defragmenter built into Windows and will run in the background. Memtest is a free program that tests your RAM's reliability.ĭefragment your hard drive. ![]() You can test your memory and hard drive various ways, although if your other programs don't have problems that may not amount to anything more than some unscheduled computer maintenance. ![]() your files are borked up through file corruption or bad sectors on your hard drive. :-[ However, the Access Violation (although terribly generic) does point to something-the game isn't able to access something properly. I speak computerese, but I don't speak Sims 2 exception logs all that well. System memory: 1016 Megabytes total, 108 Megabytes free.Īpplication/module configuration: ReleaseSRT Here is the error for those who won't want to follow the link (and in case mine somehow has more useful information):Įxception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.Īpplication/module path: C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Apartment Life\TSBin\Sims2EP8.exeĪpplication/module version name: The Sims 2 EP8 I guess at least that isn't the problem I loves me some pretty garden clutter. Update: yeah, still crashes even without M
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