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tamimica
11 years ago
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Game continually locks up in buy mode

I have all the expansions and all the stuff packs.  I had the base game, World Adventures, and High-end loft on the C drive of my laptop.  I kept getting messages that my C drive was getting full.  I...
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  • tamimica's avatar
    tamimica
    11 years ago

    I made an edit to one of my posts but I am not sure that you saw it.  

    I actually moved the base game back to C and now it runs perfectly.  Almost better since I switched the game to run off the Nvidia card.  I am not sure why this is the case for it to work again with it on C drive.  I put World Adventures on D drive and still everything works great.  It doesn't lock up at all.  But now my C drive almost a full capacity..that was reason for moving it to D drive - hoping to clear up C drive.  

    Thank you for all of your help.  I appreciate it very much.

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tamimica
11 years ago

Here is some more

Sound Devices ------------- Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) Default Sound Playback: Yes Default Voice Playback: Yes Hardware ID: HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0892&SUBSYS_146210EC&REV_1003 Manufacturer ID: 1 Product ID: 100 Type: WDM Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6873 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail WHQL Logo'd: Yes Date and Size: 3/29/2013 07:42:42, 3379272 bytes Other Files: Driver Provider: Realtek Semiconductor Corp. HW Accel Level: Basic Cap Flags: 0xF1F Min/Max Sample Rate: 100, 200000 Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 1, 0 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0 HW Memory: 0 Voice Management: No EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No --------------------- Sound Capture Devices --------------------- Description: Microphone (Realtek High Definition Audio) Default Sound Capture: Yes Default Voice Capture: Yes Driver Name: RTKVHD64.sys Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6873 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail Date and Size: 3/29/2013 07:42:42, 3379272 bytes Cap Flags: 0x1 Format Flags: 0xFFFFFDisk & DVD/CD-ROM Drives ------------------------ Drive: C: Free Space: 6.3 GB Total Space: 60.7 GB File System: NTFS Model: ATA SanDisk SDSSDP06 SCSI Disk Device Drive: D: Free Space: 583.1 GB Total Space: 715.4 GB File System: NTFS Model: ATA ST9750422AS SCSI Disk Device Drive: E: Model: TSSTcorp DVDWBD SN-406AB SCSI CdRom Device Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 6.01.7601.17514 (English), , 0 bytes -------------- System Devices -------------- Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core processor PCI Express x16 Controller - 0C01 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0C01&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_06\3&11583659&1&08 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #5 - 8C18 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C18&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_D4\3&11583659&1&E4 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0416&SUBSYS_10E81462&REV_06\3&11583659&1&10 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) HM87 LPC Controller - 8C4B Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C4B&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&F8 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #4 - 8C16 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C16&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_D4\3&11583659&1&E3 Driver: n/a Name: Killer e2200 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20) Device ID: PCI\VEN_1969&DEV_E091&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_13\4&1CF14233&0&00E2 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) Management Engine Interface Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C3A&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&B0 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #3 - 8C14 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C14&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_D4\3&11583659&1&E2 Driver: n/a Name: Killer Wireless-N 1202 (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Device ID: PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0034&SUBSYS_20031A56&REV_01\4&2C88A293&0&00E3 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C31&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&A0 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series PCI Express Root Port #1 - 8C10 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C10&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_D4\3&11583659&1&E0 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series USB EHCI #2 - 8C2D Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C2D&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&D0 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C03&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&FA Driver: n/a Name: Realtek PCIE CardReader Device ID: PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_5227&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_01\4&110F9EF8&0&00E4 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series USB EHCI #1 - 8C26 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C26&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&E8 Driver: n/a Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M Device ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_11E0&SUBSYS_10E81462&REV_A1\4&237A503&0&0008 Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series SMBus Controller - 8C22 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C22&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&FB Driver: n/a Name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core processor DRAM Controller - 0C04 Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0C04&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_06\3&11583659&1&00 Driver: n/a Name: High Definition Audio Controller Device ID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C20&SUBSYS_10EC1462&REV_04\3&11583659&1&D8 Driver: n/a

crinrict's avatar
crinrict
Hero+
11 years ago

Do you have your docs folder on c or d ?

Also make sure the game runs on the Nvidia card and not on the Intel Chip while playing.

http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/06/getting-the-game-to-recognize-your-card.html (scroll down to where it says: You have two graphic cards)

You can also turn on triple buffering and vsync to make sure the game runs better.

Also are your Nvidia drivers up-to-date ? What version do they have (you can check in the Nvidia experience)

  • tamimica's avatar
    tamimica
    11 years ago

    My docs folder is on d.

    The Nvidia version is 337.88

    Edit:

    it says that document library is in 2 locations.  D is the default save location. C has C:\Users\Public\Documents

    • crinrict's avatar
      crinrict
      Hero+
      11 years ago

      OK. All up to date.

      doc folder should also be fine.

      Did you try the suggestion about the settings ?

      • tamimica's avatar
        tamimica
        11 years ago

        Yes.

        Tried game again and ran okay for a while then would lock up in build/buy mode.  I came out of it after sitting for 5/10 minutes.  Went to live mode then it locked up for about 5/10 minutes.  Tried buy mode again and it locked up.  Had to force shut down.  This is very frustrating.  ☹️

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