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I've recently purchased Broken Sword and have had The Sims for quite a while (plus all the expansion packs up to Vacation). Well, I've been experiencing problems with both of them, and if anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also, sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item, there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Can anyone help? A number to call? A website? Thanks.
1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also, sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item, there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Can anyone help? A number to call? A website? Thanks.
Maverick42 wrote:
> I've recently purchased Broken Sword and have had The Sims for quite a
> while (plus all the expansion packs up to Vacation). Well, I've been
> experiencing problems with both of them, and if anyone could help, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> 1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look
> very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My
> screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high
> resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs
> aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
Are you running in 32bit colour? (Display properties). If not, try it, if you are, try 16bit instead.
> 2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to
> the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also,
> sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item,
> there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no
> locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the
> neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Sounds like unstable video card issues. What graphics card have you got?
> I've recently purchased Broken Sword and have had The Sims for quite a
> while (plus all the expansion packs up to Vacation). Well, I've been
> experiencing problems with both of them, and if anyone could help, it
> would be greatly appreciated.
>
> 1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look
> very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My
> screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high
> resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs
> aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
Are you running in 32bit colour? (Display properties). If not, try it, if you are, try 16bit instead.
> 2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to
> the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also,
> sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item,
> there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no
> locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the
> neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Sounds like unstable video card issues. What graphics card have you got?
Try the PC games forum for this, but have you got the latest patches and stuff?
Anyone know how to turn off CD Caching?
I've recently purchased Broken Sword and have had The Sims for quite a while (plus all the expansion packs up to Vacation). Well, I've been experiencing problems with both of them, and if anyone could help, it would be greatly appreciated.
1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also, sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item, there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Can anyone help? A number to call? A website? Thanks.
1. When I install Broken Sword, the colours are 'corrupted' and look very.. odd. I'm using Windows XP and have Direct X 8.1 installed. My screen resolution's 800 X 600, and I've tried the suggested high resolution and also the low resolution. It's not working. The discs aren't scratched, so does anyone know how I can make it work?
2. On The Sims Vacation, sometimes the game shuts down and returns to the desktop for no reason at all, and I have to restart it. Also, sometimes the sound goes completely and when I pick up an item, there's no information displayed. Also, when I go downtown there's no locations to visit and there's no way I can see of getting back to the neighborhood. I then have to restart my computer.
Can anyone help? A number to call? A website? Thanks.