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Recently re-installed TS2 to play again, after about a year of not.

The following happens, when I load any neighborhood (see pic).




This SHOULD be a picture of the bare neighborhood, and even though the SS doesn't show it, I do have the control panel and mouse cursor.  But if I click any buttons, I get the "the application has crashed, and will now close" error message.  I have so far done the following:



Updated TS2

Updated video/audio drivers

Closed anything running in the background

Removed Downloads folder, tried running game without it

Deleted groups.cache file, let game create a new one


So far, no go.  Always this screen.  Any ideas?  Specs below.


Dell Dimension 8400, Intel Pentium 3.2 GHz, 3GB RAM, Windows XP Pro SP2, nVidia GeForce 8800 GTS.

Try a reinstall.

See the  beginning of my post: "Recently re-installed TS2 to play again,...."

(24-03-2009 09:02 PM)Razer_54 link Wrote:See the  beginning of my post: "Recently re-installed TS2 to play again,...."

Even if you have just re-installed it, it doesn't mean you shouldn't re-do it. EA would tell you the same thing, if you asked them for help. I looks like something went wrong with the installation. 

Actually, my comments are incorrect.  I recently went to PLAY the game, and it was doing that.  Then I messed with the drivers, all the easier fixes.  Then I re-installed it.  And it's still there.  Obviously the 3D aspect of the game is not loading, which makes me think video.

I'm running on a 1440x900 resolution, with a widescreen monitor.  Does TS2 support a video config like that?

DirectX or Direc3D issues perhaps?

Excuse me for not seeing that.

Like heather said, EA would still tell you to reinstall it.

I have a widescreen monitor and running it on 1680x1050.

Try this. Give it a try. See what it tells you. If everything checks out then at least we can move forward from there. If not, we can work on that.