The sims 1 complete collection Question

Karen1980

I thought as I have no got rid of all virus's and problems I would try to use my sims1 .

I have had these discs for a while and cant get it to work, They load on pc fine, and the start screen comes up i press play ... then the sims logo comes up with various things written running underneath, Then just as you think the games about to start im back at my desk top, I have never been able to play this game.

Someone told me windows xp is the problem??

Its the sims 1 complete collection,. What shall i do?>

f1charlie

Have you tried the support area at www.ea.com? I would have a look, but it's blocked from work!

Some more suggestions here:

http://forums.vnunet.com/message.jspa?messageID=644146

Possible a graphics driver problem?

opportunity_cost

Yes, that's what my guess would be. That sort of crash is usually caused by a graphics issue. Update your video card drivers and DirectX (if you're not running DirectX 9.0c already). To find out what your video card make and model is and what DirectX version you have, go to Start --> Run --> type in 'dxdiag' (without the quotes) --> OK. The System and Display tabs there will give you all the info you need. Then just go to your video card manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers for it from there.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

Karen1980 wrote: »

Someone told me windows xp is the problem??

Definitely not XP as my kids have been playing SIMS 1 on my XP computer up until Christmas when they got SIMS 2.

Karen1980

Thanks will try everything suggested here.

Karen1980

opportunity_cost wrote: »

Yes, that's what my guess would be. That sort of crash is usually caused by a graphics issue. Update your video card drivers and DirectX (if you're not running DirectX 9.0c already). To find out what your video card make and model is and what DirectX version you have, go to Start --> Run --> type in 'dxdiag' (without the quotes) --> OK. The System and Display tabs there will give you all the info you need. Then just go to your video card manufacturer's website and download the latest drivers for it from there.

Done that and to me it looks like my pc is rubbish lol ,

but to be honest dont understand what its going on about.

wjhat direct X features should be enabled or diabled?

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

You don't need much of a machine to play SIMS.

My comp is only 1.8GHz with an old ATI 9500Pro graphics card. It's 4 years old now and runs DirectX 9.0c fine.

Do you get the same problems if you only try to play the original game without any of the expansion sets i.e. you only have the original game installed?

Edit - You don't need to change any settings in DirectX. If you go through the tabs, does it show any problems and do the tests it offers you run OK?

Karen1980

Phantom_Flan_Flinger wrote: »

You don't need much of a machine to play SIMS.

My comp is only 1.8GHz with an old ATI 9500Pro graphics card. It's 4 years old now and runs DirectX 9.0c fine.

Do you get the same problems if you only try to play the original game without any of the expansion sets i.e. you only have the original game installed?

Edit - You don't need to change any settings in DirectX. If you go through the tabs, does it show any problems and do the tests it offers you run OK?

Cant run the original game on its own as i got the complete collection on 4 disc set so cant seperate.

Mine says its 2.2GHz
System Information

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Time of this report: 4/21/2007, 11:33:49

Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Packard Bell NEC

BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz
Memory: 192MB RAM
Page File: 399MB used, 65MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)


Does this help?

Karen1980

This seems to be the only problem...?
Display Tab 1: The file vtdisp.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.

opportunity_cost

Karen1980 wrote: »

This seems to be the only problem...?
Display Tab 1: The file vtdisp.dll is not digitally signed, which means that it has not been tested by Microsoft's Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL). You may be able to get a WHQL logo'd driver from the hardware manufacturer.

Don't worry about that, that's just the usual disclaimer from Microsoft. It doesn't mean the driver doesn't work/won't work, just that it hasn't been tested by Microsoft (a bit like Tesco telling you 'This loaf of bread hasn't been baked by Tesco so we can't guarantee it will make good toast')

The minimum requirements for that game are quite low, so the specs you pasted for your CPU and memory are fine for running that game. You're running the most up-to-date DirectX version so that's fine too. You may just need to update your video card drivers to get the game to run.

Edit: I've just seen your other thread, so try using the drivers suggested there. If the game still won't run with the updated drivers, I would try installing Windows XP over your current XP install (without uninstalling). That fixes problems when settings have been corrupted/system files are missing, which could be the root of the problems you're experiencing.