we recently found our lost disk of Sims2 Night life. we checked for scrached and what not, there where none. but now when we play the mouse blinks in and out. my sis tried defraging, nothing. un installing then re-installing...nothing. we even thought it was our mouse so we switched from out optical mouse to a ball mouse...still nothing...what could be wrong with it? it never blinked like that before.
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Check the website for whichever version you have and see if there is a patch for the game. Also, try updating the drivers on your video card.
199601
If it's just the scroll wheel on an optical mouse, you can try Start-->Control Panel-->Mouse and check the setting for the wheel. But because the wheel portion is a physical device (unlike the optical portion), it can fail.\n\nYou can try rapping and tapping the mouse on semi-hard surfaces to see if some vibration will help the wheel set back properly if so. Tap it on a hard desk covered by a few sheets of paper, for example.\n\nMake sure you try using the wheel in several different applications to ensure it's not just a problem with one application. If it's just a problem with one application (such as your web brower) there could be a setting found from a menu such as Tools-->Options that will allow you to set how you would like the wheel to operate.\n\nFinding a way to open it and clean and check inside would be best. You can also try compressed air through any gaps or edges in the housing of the mouse to try to blow loose the gunky dust that can accumulate in computer mice.
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Download the latest patches\nhttp://www.civ3.com/patches.cfm\n\nReinstall if you have to sometimes if say you install on drive F:&#92; cd and then you buy another CD rom thats drive E:&#92; it looks for drive F:&#92; still .Reinstalling will fix that. \n\nThere's a lot of no CD patches\nhttp://megagames.com/cracks/html/c902600_0.htm
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Well a couple things come to mind when you say that, The first thing that I think of, is since your playing a game, and you said you had a very powerful computer, I'm assuming your run of the top of the line games of today like battlefield 2, my guess would be that the game isnt releasing the memory that its holding, or maybe not even exiting correctly when you exit it. I really doubt it would have anything to do with your computer hardware, but I would try updating the game to the most current version, updating your operating system with the current bug fixes, and making sure your drivers are up to date (it never hurts to check those out). If the problem continues, I would to to the software manufcatures website, and check the help section there.
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It's probably just changing video modes.  If it "twitches" during a game, it might be a driver issue.
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computer freezes or the mouse just doesn't move the pointer?\n\nIf you have a ball type mouse you can take out the ball and clean the wheels it rolls on.
72801
hey i got this problem with my LG cd rewriter .my os doesnt show up any CDrom Drives then i checked the windows manager it has a yellow exclamation mark and was written that it is not working properly.I got it fixed by restarting 2 or 3 time but it happened again so i installed the os back.Then i came to know abt the problem was in the registry .So just download any registry fixer and hope tht youll get your problem fixed.Coz when i checked my newly installed os then i saw tthere were 62 registry errors and i corrected them.\ntill then i have no cdrom probs.BYE
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Go 2 best buy or where u got the game and ask them. or call the company you got the computer from and ask them.......and why is this under the Television catergori...it should like be uner the CDomputer Catergori or Wutev. (j/w)
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I play Sims 2. I can't remember but does it give you an option while installing to install somewhere else besides the documents folder? If yes, try to install in your programs folder. \n\nThe more I think about it the default install automatically goes to documents. \n\nBetter write EA support.
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Hi \n  \n It may have happened bcoz perhaps ur CD ROM of DVD ROM lense has weared down or it needs to be cleaned. There are lense cleaner available in market which u can buy n follow instructions written on top of the Pack and it will go fine thereafter.  Another probability  is that u may perhaps neet to change the Lense as it may be unable to read CDs or DVDs.. so u need to contact  ur vendor in that case.\n\n  One more probability is perhaps u need to change the DATA cable of your CD ROM as many a times  due to incapability os the CD ROM to read the disc the particular message comes.. \n\n\n  Dont worry it will be ok and I am sure it will be if u follow the above instructions.....Let me know it worked or not...
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When your mouse veers off to the side and jitters there, that seems to me that your external mouse is conflicting with the mouse installed into your laptop there.\n\nIf you can, try disabling the mouse on your laptop and stictly use the external mouse.  Another options is to make sure that you're not touching the other mouse when you're using the external mouse (or verify that the internal mouse isn't stuck to the side or something).\n\nLastly, being this has happened to you with two different external mouse, try installing the manufacturer's drivers for the external mouse.  Yet since this has happened twice, this may not help at all.
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try to hold control button down and roll the mouse wheel at the same time. that may work, good luck..
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If they are both ps2 style then try a serial port mouse....the ps2 ports may be bad or drivers may have gotten corrupted. If the serial mouse works you will at least be able to go into device manager and check things out.
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Hi! Just wanted to ask Do you have the original game DVD.\nWell if not then you must explore the DVD and open the folder named "CRACK" and copy the icon there(it must b similar to the game icon) and Paste it to the directory where you installed the geame. It will ask whether you want to replace the file(There will be difference in the size) Select yes and \nTA! DA!\nIt will work\nTry it.\nOr might be 3D-Graphics card Problem\nHope it works\nI know i had to survive by just seeing it untill dad brought A new compitable 3d card\ndesaijayk@hotmail.com\nThankz
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Is it a microsoft mouse?\nIf so, have you tried loading the Intellimouse driver suite and load the specific driver for the mouse.\n\nMice take up VERY LITTLE RAM, but occasionally another device will capture the system IRQ that the mouse uses to operate.\nI have this problem with my SONY DVD, but once the DVD is done reading my mouse wakes up.
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Do you mean the game doesn't install or run? What's the problem you're having? Have you looked at the CD itself (right click on CD icon and click explore)? Any files on the disk?\n\nHow did you get the CD? Mail order? Street purchase? e-Bay?\n\nIf from the Street, you may have been ripped off. Especially if there aren't any files on the CD.
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I'd like to find out what kind of mouse you have, and secondly if you have the software that came with the mouse.  I would reinstall the software for the mouse.  Or if it didn't come with software I would uninstall the driver from the control panel > mouse and reinstall then try to figure out if the settings on some sort of Web protection program is interfering with your mouse. (i.e. Norton Internet Security) etc.