Antony: July 2008 Archives
A new person that I've communicated with named Willow got to talking about the Sims 2. She plays the game a lot, I didn't. I even uninstalled it. She said she has every expansion that came out for it.
Anyhow I reinstalled it because I thought of trying it again after talking to her. And it took forever -- like over 5 minutes -- to load. I searched the web and there were suggestions but nothing worked. I even asked Willow what could it be. I mean the game was made in 2004. A machine of the specs of NRA64 didn't even exist in 2004. So all the things that said "add more ram" and "get a better processor" didn't work for me and I knew it wouldn't. Defrag your drive was another. Okay but didn't work. Now here's the kicker one, "Put your page file on another drive". That was WTF? Let's see, you should change that just to play the Sims while every other program before and since doesn't matter? Right.
Then instead of putting the CD in DVD/CDRW, I put the CD in the DVD burner. It started up almost immediately. So it appears the CD drive was the culprit and trying to run the game would cause issues to make it revert to PIO mode. I got a virtual cd drive program that is a thirty day trial and used it to test again, almost immediately the Sims 2 booted in.
So choice is buy the software, buy another DVD/CDRW drive, or cause wear and tear on the DVD burner just to play the game. Since the software costs 30 dollars, I may just go option 2.
Funny thing is I couldn't find anything that said "It could be your CD drive" on the net when searching for why this was happening. This is why I feel I had to post about it here.
Anyhow I reinstalled it because I thought of trying it again after talking to her. And it took forever -- like over 5 minutes -- to load. I searched the web and there were suggestions but nothing worked. I even asked Willow what could it be. I mean the game was made in 2004. A machine of the specs of NRA64 didn't even exist in 2004. So all the things that said "add more ram" and "get a better processor" didn't work for me and I knew it wouldn't. Defrag your drive was another. Okay but didn't work. Now here's the kicker one, "Put your page file on another drive". That was WTF? Let's see, you should change that just to play the Sims while every other program before and since doesn't matter? Right.
Then instead of putting the CD in DVD/CDRW, I put the CD in the DVD burner. It started up almost immediately. So it appears the CD drive was the culprit and trying to run the game would cause issues to make it revert to PIO mode. I got a virtual cd drive program that is a thirty day trial and used it to test again, almost immediately the Sims 2 booted in.
So choice is buy the software, buy another DVD/CDRW drive, or cause wear and tear on the DVD burner just to play the game. Since the software costs 30 dollars, I may just go option 2.
Funny thing is I couldn't find anything that said "It could be your CD drive" on the net when searching for why this was happening. This is why I feel I had to post about it here.
After the next issue of StormStrike, there will be a new numbering system. Storm started in late 2003 and with the hiatuses, it doesn't reflect the history any longer. Therefore, it will now have "seasons". The numbers will continue but as "episodes". Since the Summer months are always the hardest with outside demands and family stuff and other things, most Summers will be left as cliffhangers for the following Fall.
To give an idea, Season 5 ends with the upcoming Episode #50. And Season 6 will start almost immediately then next Summer will be a hiatus before Season 7.
More to come later. Subscribers to Foreshadows will get more exclusive information later.
To give an idea, Season 5 ends with the upcoming Episode #50. And Season 6 will start almost immediately then next Summer will be a hiatus before Season 7.
More to come later. Subscribers to Foreshadows will get more exclusive information later.
