the sims 2 seasons

[thirddays]

So i have installed the sims 2 on my Wife's computer and it Stops after saying "individualizing snow flakes" it says well it has 2 errors it says this the first one

"ialmrnt5" it talked about it looped and what not , and then it goes to graphics adapter something about internal error.
at the bottom it said begining to dump physcall ram

[George Hallam]

what are your system specs??.

sounds like not enough graphics power or ram do u have an integrated graphics

[thirddays]

yeah it is a On board Video card but it's 64 megs.

[thirddays]

2.4 gig procesor
64 meg video card on board
256 ram
120 gig hdd.
windows xp home

[saphalline]

yeah it is a On board Video card but it's 64 megs.

Size isn't everything! At least not for vid cards.

That system really needs more RAM. 256MB of RAM w/64MB used for onboard video?? That only leaves you with 192MB usable for programs. And considering the game itself requires 256MB of RAM apart from the RAM on the vid card, well... As I often say, if your system doesn't meet the minimum requirements, you can't expect the software to be stable!

So that's the place to start - add more RAM. Other considerations for gaming performance include a dedicated vid card, faster hard drive, Windows optimizations, etc. All in all, PC gaming is actually very expensive to get it right!

[George Hallam]

i agree with saph. also sims 2 may have very low system requirements but when everything is on full and on a decent resolution it puts my pc to shame :S definitely get some more RAM

[thirddays]

in the bios settings i can Change the video ram from 64 to 32 would that help?

[George Hallam]

hmmmmmmm the minimum requirements

http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=280

A T&L-capable video card with at least 32 MB of video RAM.

so it could help but still your ram will still not meet the minimum requirements what computer do you have? make/model RAM is dirt cheap now

[saphalline]

in the bios settings i can Change the video ram from 64 to 32 would that help?

Well, considering the game isn't running right now, it couldn't hurt to try! I doubt it will change anything, though. Most likely you'll have to add more RAM and tweak some settings in Windows.

Also, noting the TnL requirement, what onboard video do you have? You can get this info by running DXDiag and clicking on the Display tab. Start -> Run... -> type in "dxdiag" and hit enter.

[thirddays]

intel 92865g grahpics controller,
it's a custom built computer it has a intel celeron procesor i know those are lower ends. and like i said a 64 meg bideo card a 256 ram but in the Settings it says it has 256 megs of ram so i'm thinking maybe the video card has it's own memory?

[123456]

My cousin has the same system sort of: 40GB hd, 32mb video ram, but the Sims 2 works fine. I think you should try upgrading at least to 1GB RAM.

[saphalline]

intel 92865g grahpics controller

Onboard video, Intel Extreme Graphics 2, TnL capable. Good, good...

but in the Settings it says it has 256 megs of ram so i'm thinking maybe the video card has it's own memory?

Impossible. That is most definitely onboard video - it doesn't have its own RAM. What's happening is that the onboard video dynamically allocates RAM as needed. Thus when the system is idle (graphically) it will appear to "eat" only 1-2MB of main RAM, and then ramp up to 64MB or 32MB as graphics rendering calls are increased.

Definitely add more RAM. 256MB minus onboard video is extremely light for WinXP in general, much less gaming. My own system has 2GB of RAM (2048MB) as well as a 640MB vid card. Think about how cheap RAM is relative to the increased system performance. And in any case, unless you're willing to toss the game to the side as a loss, you've already paid for it and can't return it. Might as well make the investment worthwhile!

[thirddays]

Yeah i'l have to get some in fact i got a few spare chips i just gotta see if They are compatable, *i didn't build this machine*

[saphalline]

*i didn't build this machine*

Ugh! Don't you hate being caught in the middle? It's like, "Hey! You're a computer expert, right? Can you fix this problem that you would originally never have created in the first place?" *sigh*

[thirddays]

i know what you mean, lol I get nervous with other peoples machine lol. it's actually my gf's computer but her grandparents own it. I ended up putting a nvidia geforce fx 2500 in it.