Glaanieboy
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I have a sound problem with the Sims: Deluxe Edition. I installed the game as usual, tried starting it, and the game crashed as soon as it entered the neighbourhood. To make a long story short, I disabled the sound by using the -nosound switch and it worked. I updated my drivers (version 5.12.1.5017 is what I use now), reverted back from DirectX 9 to DirectX 8.1. Also I updated the Sims with the official patch.
I looked around the internet, and I found that more people were having my kind of problems, but I did not find a solution.
I did not install any thirdparty addons, only the game it self.
Specs:
Soundblaster 4.1 digital using drivers version 5.12.1.5017
DirectX 8.1
I already e-mailed EA support, see below:
I looked around the internet, and I found that more people were having my kind of problems, but I did not find a solution.
I did not install any thirdparty addons, only the game it self.
Specs:
Soundblaster 4.1 digital using drivers version 5.12.1.5017
DirectX 8.1
I already e-mailed EA support, see below:
E-mail from EA Technical Support
Discussion Thread
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Response (Box Karl D.) - 01/31/2003 06:57 PM
Have you downloaded any items for your game off the Internet? If so, I'd first suggest going to our website, click on the ""Get Cool Stuff"" link, then go to ""Make Cool Stuff"". Download and install the Sim File Cop application. This will help resolve 60% of most download related issues. Otherwise, you will need to contact those websites for assistance with placing the items you have downloaded. This is because these items are not designed by Maxis, but by third party. There is no guarantee that those items will work or what effect it will have on the game.
If not, try editing the shortcut to The Sims. To create a shortcut, Right-click on the desktop, choose New, Shortcut, browse to The Sims folder. (Usually C:\program files\maxis\the sims\sims.exe) Choose next and finish the shortcut. Right-click on the new shortcut and choose properties. Go to Shortcut, and the Target Line should be highlighted. Add the following switches to the end of the line: -nodx6 -skip_verify -w
(Ex: ""C:\. \the sims\thesims.exe"" -nodx6 -skip_verify -w )
As a last resort use the -nosound switch to disable the game sound.
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Customer - 01/31/2003 10:02 AM
When clicking the shortcut for running the game, performs all the usual things, but when switching from loading screen to the house selectscreen (initial screen at startup), the game crashes to desktop. I have installed the latest patch, installed WHQL compatible drivers for both my videocard (Geforce 3 ti200, Driver version 40.72) and my soundcard (Soundblaster 4.1 digital, Driver version 5.12.1.2065). I also tried running the game in safemode, using the -skip_verify switch. I ran the Sim Cop file utility and nothing strange came up. I reinstalled the game (and removed the leftover files with the Sim fileremover utility), but that did not help.
Thank you for contacting Electronic Arts Technical Support.
Karl D.