Blue Screen of Eternity

I'm having issues getting the game to run suddenly. I didn't have an issue until I updated my graphics card driver, which set the resolution of the game back to 800x whatever the second number is. So I went to fix the graphics rule.sgr file and since then, I start the game, but it just goes to the sims 2 blue screen that is completely blank and does nothing (I can move the mouse so it isn't frozen). I removed the cache files, I restored the backup graphics rule file, but it is only doing this. The game ran fine once after updating the graphics driver so I don't think that is the issue.

Anyone know what this is and how to fix it? I also removed the whole sims 2 folder to let a new one regenerate, but it still did it and it only generates the teleport and logs folders, nothing more. I also checked and the folder was set to read only. Is it supposed to be read only? I thought maybe a setting got changed somehow, but I have no idea.