I know iIWhy Does my Sims 2 game freeze up? I shut down all the processes I could. So why does it still do it?
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The Sims causes Video Cards to overheat, make sure you have a good video card and make sure the fan is clear of debri as in dust and crap.  Open the side to the computer if you have to, or like I said the best is get a good video card such as ATI Radeon 9200SE, this runs Sims just fine, and it only retails for 69.00 or so.  Available at our store....\nPS the idiot who thinks ALT F4 frees up ram is a moron, it will shut the active window, guess in a way that would free up resources, but then how the hell would you play the damn game!  hehehehehe
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there is no way, and there is NO free demo, there are no demos of the sims 1 or 2.  you can try alternatives like secondlife.com or habbohotel.com but the graphics and game play are off a little
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Try going to www.adaware.com and downloading the personal use version. This has helped me with mine freezing up. I run mine at least once a week and sometimes every other day, just depends how much I have been online. One other thing is what type of service do you have? I had more problems with dial up not loading things quickly and getting timed out, but when I used my same computer at the library where I was able to use their wireless I had no problems.
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i like the sims 2 because it is a fun way to pass the time.  it is fun to make a family and have generations go on and on.  i like making real people + doing something called a legacy challenge.  it is a fun way to play the game without cheating.
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this also happened to me, i have a Windows 2000 and knew that it was totally up-to-date with the Sims 2 software. Since it didn't work, i went back to the store in which i had purchased the first one and bought another one. this worked for me, but is a little expensive $50 + $50, yikes. so what i would suggest doing would be to call the service # and explain your problem. good luck!
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i had the same problem, there are applications conflicting,\n\nheres what i did to solve the problem\n\non start menu click on run,    type msconfig\n\nthen remove relevant applications and services\n\n\nto start, try disactivating all, youll see that your computer no longer freezes, your task is now to check each which u want to keep,
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is that a copy cd rom of the sims you have  .check your cd drive
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Sounds like a good system. You might want to go into your task manager like the above people were saying and check not only if there are lingering tasks running from your game, but, check what all you are running period. In WinXP SP2, you should have less than 30 processes running.\nFrom what you've said, I would expect the problem to be either memory leaks from poor clean-up process with the game or your page file is having issues.\n-When you go into your Task Manager, click on the Performance Tab. On the bottom left, take a look at the Commit Charge info. If the 'Peak' is significantly more than twice the physical ram, you might want to look into adding more ram.\nYou mentioned the 250 Gb Drive. Do you have any other drives?\nA significant speed increase can be realized by utilizing multiple hard drives. A small one for your Operating System.  A fast, small drive for your Paging File and Printer Spooler. And data drive for your music, games, etc.\nSee the link below regarding moving the paging file to an alternate drive.\n\nIf it ends up simply being your game's ram cleanup, the only thing you can really do is reboot after gameplay. It might be inconvenient, if you're lucky, it will be addressed with a patch from the game's website. >I might suggest emailing support for the game just to see if they have a suggested configuration for your system<
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The main requirement is 256Mb RAM, anything with >512Mb will play the Sims 2 smoothly. You'll also need 800Mhz CPU. Try Savastore for cheap laptops.
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You may have too much stored in your memory. try to delete unused files and items, then reconfigure see if that helps. Hope so. Mine gets slow when Sims is loaded, way to much space is used.
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i so love playing sims! im addicted to it, i can sit in front of computer for whole night playing it lol. i will make them dating, sex, babies, and then sex againP
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what kind of cards from what game or site?\n\nI think that the program is corrrupted.\n\nYou should uninstall the program (not deleted it! ) and then reinstall it again.\nSometimes that will fix the problems.\n\nGood luck.\nsteffy
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maybe overheat issue try using motherboard monitor program to check the temperature of the system and do some burn in test on specific hardware such as cpu, ram, graphic card as game does put a good amount of stress on those hardware
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Sounds like something running in the background....I dont know why people insist on running programs they aint using! They hog system rescources, mainly ram! Ram is an area of memory that does the actual running of your software. To make it simple....say you have 128 megs of ram. You have a game that requires 64 megs to run...you also have weatherbug, yahoo messenger, and god knows whatelse also sharing this ram and using another 100 megs. What do you suppose happens? CLOSE ALL that bullshit down! Stop some of that crap from running on startup! You will be MUCH happier with the way your system runs!
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Typically it is what thay call a software conflict, two or more activities are competing and this may freeze your screen. check your notification area in the lower right corner of your task bar and see what programs are there, some could be running in the background possibly causing the problem.
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Well actually you CAN have children on the Sims 2 for PS2. i just really don't know how to do it.....see here is proof
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You need the case to  eneter the code. You can call for service that might help. My sims crash all the time. I am mad they just crashed last week.