Mx300 and THE SIMS......

[Boogeyman]

I just bought this game for my wife and everytime I load it up it crashes. The only way she can play it is if I start it from the run command with the -nosound swith activated. I have installed diamonds drivers as well as the referenced drivers from aureal without any luck. Does anyone else have this trouble?

Sys specs
566 celery 0/C 850
Abit Bh6
Voodoo 3500
MX300
Linksys NIC
Mylex SCSI card
Plextor drives
WD HD 27 gig
Thanks

 

[Alphacowboy]

SB LIVE! J/K! sorry I have no idea!

 

[Wingznut]

Sorry man, but TheSims seems to work just fine with my MX300 (using the latest reference drivers).

 

[Syborg1211]

did you get the newest patch for the sims yet?


p.s. dont even bother with asking maxis about help with their game as i did so and they would not help at all, and when i finally did get help out of the middle of nowhere after i gave up on the game, they sent some info that didn't help me at all either. But i am not sure if my problem applies to you because i have been told that my problem was a coppermine sound blaster error that i fixed when i updated drivers

 

[Syborg1211]

maybe that is the true test to your overclock?

 

[Wah]

the sims works with my mx300.

try dropping your clock speed, or REM out the dos lines for the mx300 (solved a lot of problems i had when i first got it)

 

[Boogeyman]

remmed out the dos line and lowered to 566....still gets to main screen and dumps...actually it won't even play the intro. It stutters to a halt while the house is building. Any other ideas?

 

[Syborg1211]

did you patch it yet?

 

[bannor11]

I'm not sure if you want to try this but it worked for me. The game kept closing back out to desktop whenever it got the the neighborhood screen. I realized it crashed whenever it tried to play music in the game. I modified a file called simsound.HIT which is in the SoundData folder in the Sims directory which took out the music and it worked fine after that. If you want to try it I suggest you backup a copy of the simsound.HIT file and the modify as following:

Open up simsound.HIT with wordpad and remove lines 20, 21, 22, and 23. These lines look similar in wordpad...you should be able to read then number 5 in the beginning of the string and 3 towards the end. Save the file over the original (make sure you save it or rename it as simsound.HIT because wordpad puts a .txt after saving). Load up the game and you should have all sound effects minus the music.

If you want you can email me and I will send you a copy of my modified file. Hope it works out for you.

 

[damocles]

i found most of my problems with the MX 300 came from either

a) Using the cruddy Diamond Drivers
b) not 100% removing the cruddy drivers before installing the reference drivers.

Ever since i reformatted with no trace of the diamond drivers (extreme i know) i havent had a single sound card problem

 

[Boogeyman]

Syborg 1211 The autopatcher says I already have the most current version of the software.

 

[Snoop]

your problem is the drivers for your sound card, here are the latest aureal vortex drivers, it will work after you load these Vortex 2 drivers

if that link does not work try this vortex2

 

[Boogeyman]

Editing the sound.hit file as bannor11 suggested worked. I loaded the
2048 drivers already with the same results as all the others. I may try the 2041 WHQL drivers just to see what happens...Thanks again bannor for the heads up.

 

[bannor11]

Glad to be of service. My g/f is addicted to the game so I had to get it working somehow. A lot of people are having the same problem too. I'm sure another patch is due for the game sometime. Until then...better having some sound than no sound at all. Enjoy.

 

[Boogeyman]

That's funny that you say alot of people are having the same trouble. The customer support acted like I was the only one. LOL

 

[bannor11]

Yea it has been posted quite frequently on the help message board at The Sims Official Website

 

[hungrypete]

had no problem with the retail version of sims and the retail mx300 driver (on the disk). Then again I only played it for a couple of hours before deciding it wasnt my cup of tea.