Directx Sims 2
Dorian Aldrege
ok, i am getting very irritated. i got the sims 2 when it first came out for x-mas (maybe a year ago i think?). when i played it the first time, it worked fine. then about 2 weeks or less after i first played it, it came up with an error message when i tried to run it (and every time after that it does), the error message is: it makes me very mad that i cant play this game, STILL! i have looked on every site out there and tried sooo many things and none of them have worked. please im begging you PLEAES HELP ME !!!! my computer is
a. Click on the Start menu and select Settings, Control Panel, and then double-click on Display. If using Microsoft Windows* XP: Click on the Start menu and select Control Panel, "Switch to Classic View" if the category view is shown, and then double-click on Display.
In other words, you should put in a new graphics card with plenty of memory on it. The problem is I can't suggest one since I don't know if your card support AGP 4x or if you will have to install an old PCI card.
If you have the onboard Intel chipset: Intel 82815 Graphics Controller and Intel 82810 Graphics Controller - in theory it will run if you do what is listed above. However, it won't run well if at all. Tell us what your video card is and we may be able to help.
I'm sorry about that but i have no idea waht the video chip is or anything like that soyou will have to like majorly help me ok please i really want to play and all i can do is that and watch tv because of my foot so please !! thanks! byee
Right click on My Computer, then click on Properties from the menu that appears, then click on the Hardware tab, then click on the Device Manager button, then click on the "+" next to Display Adapters. This will open up and show you a subentry which should display the name of your card or onboard device.
Samantha098 the only way that you will be able to play the game with any facility is to buy one of the boards mentioned above and install it and disable your 82815 Graphics Controller. You can try to lower the resolution and a variety of other things that are often suggested, but it will not be a fun experience and you will come to screen that you won't be able to view or you will need a tool that won't appear.
First press start on your computer and click run and in the box type dxdiag. Then in the window that pops up click display. At the botton there are 3 programs with either enabled, disabled, or not available. Next to Direct3D Acceleration I am guessing it says not available. If it says disabled just enable it. If it says enabled and it doesn't work I don't believe I can help. Now if it does say not available you will have to download DirectX 9.0c at this website: ;displaylang=en Verify your type of internet connection and click continue and verify it again and click download. Now how you download it is very important! Do not press open you have to save it! Make sure you save it on our desktop! YOU CANNOT SAVE IT ANYWHERE ELSE! After it is downloaded on your desktop minamize the internet to your desktop and you will see its icon. Double click it to run it and follow what it says. After that is done restart your computer and go back to pressing start, run, dxdiag and see if its there now and enabled and try playing Sims 2 now!
I really need help like bad and I need head on so if some one can add me on msn I am having the same problem and I cannot figure anything out ..so addd me and help I want to play the sims. anima...@hotmail.com
Mmkay, so i also have this Sims problem, and when I go to my Device Manager it doesn't have a Display Adapters section so i tried the next solution given, that didn't work either -all three of them were "Not Availale" and even after the download and i restarted it, the game still responded with that message. Any other ideas? Please, your help is greatly appreciated.
OK For people who need help with the sims 2 problem. Make sure you have installed Directx 9.0c , make sure with the dxdiag tool. What i did to solve this problem is sat around trying a million things until onw worked! Go to this website:
I LOVE YOU!!!! i had the same issue as" beautflbrunette1" and EA could not help me for 2 days i got the same answer "we are sorry blah blah " but im happy i googled this and ran into your first post i have windows vist btw .i joined just to thank you :)becouse i was going to remove the game if i didnt get a remedy.
I have approximatively the same problem as edaz:when i run dxdiag,only the direct sound works for me.A few days ago i reformatted my pc,i believe that the problem comes from that.I already downloaded directx 9.c but still nothing.Help me please!!!
I've been taking advantage of the awesome fact that dgVoodoo 2 now has DirectX 9.0 support for DirectX 9 games, and have been using it to see if I could successfully run it on The Sims 2. The game is originally plagued with many issues when running it on modern PCs, and my current issue I had with it was because of the infamous "flashing pink" issue; no matter what fixes I applied and no matter what I tried (which was literally everything I could find) nothing worked.
When I had found out about the newly implemented DX9 support I tried to see if I could work around this issue using dgVoodoo 2. The game loads up and runs only when I load up the game using the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card, which is one of the supported graphics cards in the game. However, I get a "flashing red" issue with the sims and they do the same thing as with the flashing pink issue, except that they flash red instead. If I try using the GeForce4 Ti 4800 it immediately crashes on startup and if I use the FX 5700 it crashes when loading a neighborhood. I have also entered the vendor and device id for my actual graphics card (GeForce GTX 1080Ti) into the dgVoodoo.conf file, ran the game using the Internal 3d Graphics Driver that is built into dgVoodoo 2 and it still crashes upon loading the neighborhood, with an EXCEPTION log created in the Logs folder of The Sims 2. It is having an ACCESS VIOLATION and the module is the user32.dll file. This doesn't happen when I load it up using the ATI Radeon 8500 video card in the dgVoodoo 2 control panel, but as mentioned above, that video card won't work.
I can't see a single reason though why this game should be played through dgVoodoo.
Sims2 is completely software rendered. It only uses D3D9 to set the display mode (800x600) and do its vertex shading calculations through D3D9 in software, which literally means multiplying some vectors by a transformation matrix ( ? ?) for most cases. No GPU is involved at all.
I'm sorry but I believe you are mistaken. The game will run in software rendering mode when using the internal 3d graphics card in the dgVooodoo 2 control panel because The Sims 2 doesn't detect that graphics card in the game's database. Therefore, the game assumes that the PC in question doesn't have a GPU and therefore forces the game to run in software rendering mode.
To prove this, I have uploaded a screenshot of me running the Sims 2 in Hardware rendering mode, using the ATI Radeon 8500 graphics card in dgVoodoo 2 (which is a GPU supported by the Sims 2) with all settings maxed out and in 800x600 resolution. With GDI Hooking enabled, I can also run this game at 1440p resolution effortlessly; the only problem that still remains is the graphics glitches that I have mentioned.
This is why I stated that I put the vendor id and device id in the dgVoodoo 2 config file. You have to do this when using the internal 3d graphics card in dgVoodoo 2 so that the game can recognize that there is a graphics card. Not doing this will cause the game to run only in software rendering mode.
I have successfully managed to get farther with hardware rendering in the Sims 2, but it was only with dgVoodoo 2.6. The lack of HLSL support in 2.6.1 makes it impossible to properly run The Sims 2 with Hardware Rendering, so I had to revert back to 2.6 to properly run it.
In the dgVoodoo.conf file, you have to set ShaderCodeGenerating = 2 and use the d3dcomplier_43 and d3dcomplier_47 in the file where the Sims 2 executable is. Without using this the game has an issue with the DirectX 9 calls being made by dgVoodoo 2 itself and therefore crashes upon loading the neighborhood (the game apparently doesn't like the internal shader code generator). By using this though, I have successfully managed to load the neighborhood with the Internal 3d Virtual Card and thus have gotten farther.
However, this leads me to another issue. With ShaderCodeGenerating = 2 (using the internal shader code in any way makes the game unplayable) I can finally load a sim in Create A Sim without the game crashing. However, I do get serious graphical issues and this impairs my ability to play the game. I have uploaded an image of such graphical issues to further clarify. It doesn't look as extreme in the image as it is a still shot but the textures are constantly glitching and the areas where the glitched textures should be are completely invisible. However, I have not yet seen the red-flashing issue I have mentioned earlier and it only appears in the game's thumbnails.
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