Sims 2 Double Deluxe troubles

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Bipmin

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I have a Dell 1525, Vista with 175GB of hard drive free, 3GB of RAM and a 32 bit operating system (am not an expert so no idea if this affects it)

I have never been able to create a family, or build houses. Only sometimes will it run properly, other times it just freezes completely. I believe I have the right spec to run it, I wondered if anyone knew anything I could do to make it run better, or it all?

Thanks :)
 
when you say freezes, does it go to a black screen, does it keep with the same picture and not do anything, does your whole computer hang, how does it freeze?

Your system should be ok to run it, I've got it on a 5 year old laptop playing quite happily at much lower specs than yours. Have you tried reinstalling the game?

Have you tried updating all of your drivers?
 
Aastii said:
when you say freezes, does it go to a black screen, does it keep with the same picture and not do anything, does your whole computer hang, how does it freeze?

Your system should be ok to run it, I've got it on a 5 year old laptop playing quite happily at much lower specs than yours. Have you tried reinstalling the game?

Have you tried updating all of your drivers?
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It keeps the same picture. I have done, and it still happens.

Which drivers would you suggest updating?
 
Bipmin said:
It keeps the same picture. I have done, and it still happens.

Which drivers would you suggest updating?
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Video at the very least. One thing Dell are pretty good with is their driver support. Go to their site, go find the support page for your laptop and it will have driver downloads. Download them and put them on your desktop, or somewhere that you can remember where they are, and disconnect your laptop from the internet (if it is plugged in, unplug it, if it is wireless, turn the router off).

Go to start>control panel>Device Manager

find display adapters and expand it. Right click your intel onboard video and click uninstall, accept, let it uninstall it, restart if you must.

Install the drivers from the desktop or wherever you saved them and you can hook yourself up to the internet again and try the game again to see if it makes any difference
 
Aastii said:
Video at the very least. One thing Dell are pretty good with is their driver support. Go to their site, go find the support page for your laptop and it will have driver downloads. Download them and put them on your desktop, or somewhere that you can remember where they are, and disconnect your laptop from the internet (if it is plugged in, unplug it, if it is wireless, turn the router off).

Go to start>control panel>Device Manager

find display adapters and expand it. Right click your intel onboard video and click uninstall, accept, let it uninstall it, restart if you must.

Install the drivers from the desktop or wherever you saved them and you can hook yourself up to the internet again and try the game again to see if it makes any difference
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I did that, and it still freezes. My partner has an older laptop, a toshiba, with barely any memory, and it works prefectly. Any other suggestions please? :confused:
 
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