Hi, I'm new to the forums and have a problem with The Sims 2 and windows vista.
I'm using vista home premium 32bit operating system and seem to have all the required disk space and everything, I don't seem to have any problems with the graphics or anything like I thought I would, so I assume I have an appropriate graphics card (as well as sound).
Initially, the game loads without any problems, the only thing being a window popping up informing me of compatibility issues, which then prompted me to search for solutions and download a patch for the game (which I did).
After that everything runs as normal and very quickly, the graphics are fine. The problem comes when I'm in neighbourhood view and I click on a family to play, the loading screen performs as normal, as does the sound, until it gets to the point where it has supposedly stopped loading - the music continues but everything else freezes up with the loading screen still showing as completed. It's as if it just never loads? The only way I can get out of it is Alt+Ctrl+Del where I end the process in the task manager.
I searched the forums and couldn't find a similar problem to mine, I apologise if this problem has already been answered. Any help please?? Thank you.
I'm using vista home premium 32bit operating system and seem to have all the required disk space and everything, I don't seem to have any problems with the graphics or anything like I thought I would, so I assume I have an appropriate graphics card (as well as sound).
Initially, the game loads without any problems, the only thing being a window popping up informing me of compatibility issues, which then prompted me to search for solutions and download a patch for the game (which I did).
After that everything runs as normal and very quickly, the graphics are fine. The problem comes when I'm in neighbourhood view and I click on a family to play, the loading screen performs as normal, as does the sound, until it gets to the point where it has supposedly stopped loading - the music continues but everything else freezes up with the loading screen still showing as completed. It's as if it just never loads? The only way I can get out of it is Alt+Ctrl+Del where I end the process in the task manager.
I searched the forums and couldn't find a similar problem to mine, I apologise if this problem has already been answered. Any help please?? Thank you.
