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Anonymous
8 years ago
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Sims 4 Freezes (ATI Display Driver Stopped...)

Hello, I just recently purchased Sims 4 but have been unable to play it as it keeps crashing with a constantly reoccurring "Display driver stopped working and has recovered". I've tried the followi...
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    I know it's been awhile, but to all who may have a similar problem, I was using a cheap (come to find out) extension ribbon for my graphics card.

    I recently reassembled my desktop into a case and all my games started working again. The only difference was the ribbon. I took that sucker and threw it away after writing a scathing review on Amazon.

    The game now plays on ultra at 50+ FPS.

    Thank you for all your help everyone.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
@Sashas0nic I see.

I have two drives - my solid state boot drive for Windows and my my main drive (2 1TB drives in raid) where the game is installed with 350GB free.
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Sashas0nic
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8 years ago

Hi again @aruane3@crinrict is pretty good deciphering the dx diag so hopefully, he'll notice soon (having now tagged him). As I don't want to confuse the matter, but I'd try the in game graphics as a 'short term' thing, just to see.

Hope it works out,

Sasha

nb: I have a 'free app/utility' to double check video cards etc, called TechPowerUp GPU-Z that gives in-depth information about your installed graphics card etc.

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