BV causing "application has crashed"???

Try updating your video card driver files and your sound card files and
remove everything from your download folder. Also get any patches that are
available for the game. If the game now works start adding items back into
your down load folder one at a time and try the game. There is a Technical
Support information file to find it go to Start, All programs, EA games, The
SimsT 2 Bon Voyage, Technical Support.

The folowing files must be upgraded or the game will crash or do strange
thinks.
InSIMenator , InTeenimater, and The "CEP" - Color Enable Package.

The userStartup.cheat file is in the My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Config
folder. use Notepad to open and edit this file.

My userStartup.cheat file is listed below

boolProp testingCheatsEnabled false
uintProp maxTotalSims 50
uintProp maxTotalHumans 35
uintProp maxTotalPets 15
alias cffalse "boolProp constrainFloorElevation false" "Constrain Floor
Elevation False" "Contrain Floor Elevation False"
alias cftrue "boolProp constrainFloorElevation true" "Constrain Floor
Elevation true" "Contrain Floor Elevation true"
alias mon "moveObjects on" "Move Objects On" "Move Objects On"
alias mof "moveObjects off" "Move Objects Off" "Move Objects Off"
setHighestAllowedLevel 10
Instead of typig boolProp constrainFloorElevation true I type cftrue for
false I type cffalse for move objects on type mon for off type mof
This is also where you would put any cheats you want to start with the game.
"Carol Miller" <luonne3.DeleteThis@embarqmail.com> wrote in message
news:4705dd4e$0$5168$9a6e19ea@unlimited.newshosting.com...
> Racheal,
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> Let the Sims2 load till the round EA Logo comes up and hit the space bar.
> It will skip loading the movie.
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> Still works from Sims 1.
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> Carol
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> "Racheal" <rbunnin.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:470597ab$0$19339$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>> Hi thanks for the posts!
>>
>> Yes im using an NVidia video card, so im glad someone out there is having
>> similar problems. As i said before, i have never had this problem before,
>> with any expansion pack, only since BV... My pc is perfectly capable of
>> playing Sims2 on highest details, in fact i play Oblivion in nearly
>> highest possible settings also, but turn some of them down just to get
>> that wee bit better frame rate.
>>
>> I have a list in task manager, and of them the ones under Racheal are:
>> explorer.exe and avgcc.exe and the game i want to play, so sims2.exe adds
>> to the list when i start it up. Other than that i have a list of SYSTEM
>> exe's and 3 LOCAL SERVICE exe's (but the local ones are quite small). I
>> dont think i need to touch any of the system exe's, otherwise something
>> might happen and i dont want my computer to explode*. I keep a good eye
>> on tasks, i have a progeam called startup.exe that allows me to decide
>> what programs to run at startup, its VERY handy to disable things like
>> quicktime from loading on startup.
>>
>> I WILL try this boolprop cheat from MM (thanks very much for that!), but
>> i have no idea what you mean by 'userstartup.cheat file'.... so im going
>> to google it and see what i get, but otherwise some hints would be
>> appreciated. Is this a way of putting in cheats into the game
>> automatically every single time? If so the allow45degreeangleofrotaton
>> cheat at startup of sims 2 would be fantastic!
>>
>> hahaha my sister also uses an NVidia card.... might be an issue there. Im
>> going to try the cheat now, and also look for the latest NVidia dirvers
>> from my 7800gt just to be sure BV isnt trying to do something thats not
>> possible with the current drivers - i updated them last time a few months
>> ago...
>>
>> Thanks very much to everyone, never knew sims2 was so buggy, ive never
>> had a problem with it until now.
>>
>> Racheal
>>
>> "Madame Mim" <mad.mim.DeleteThis@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
>> news:FSdNi.5138$H22.382@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>>> Do you have an NVidia video card? That is the exact message I see when
>>> BV crashes my video card. If you do have an NVidia video card try adding
>>> the line
>>>
>>> boolprop useShaders false
>>>
>>> to your userStartup.cheat file (just ask for more information here if
>>> you don't know how to create one) and see if that stops the crashing.
>>>
>>> --
>>> MM
>>> "Not all fixes will take effect on existing The Sims 2 Bon Voyage saved
>>> games. If you have an existing Lot, Sim, object, or neighborhood that
>>> does not seem to be improved by this patch, we recommend that you
>>> replace the . . . family, Lot or neighborhood" MaxoidVanquish on the
>>> expected BV patch
>>> http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=f4f3ae5...a6c367c
>>>
>>> ie We don't even guarantee the patch will fix existing problems - maybe
>>> you should just kill all your Sims and start again.
>>> http://www.genensims2.com/guest/MadameMim/index.htm
>>>
>>>
>>> "Racheal" <rbunnin.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:4704f65d$0$31086$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
>>>> Just got BV, and this has never happened before, but i am getting 'The
>>>> application has crashed and will now terminate" messages. Im not 100%
>>>> sure if this is linked to the expansion or some sort of download that i
>>>> recently loaded into the game, or an incompatibility with BV... So just
>>>> to be sure, because i always enjoy making new families, i reinstalled
>>>> my sims 2, deciding to delete all and redownload a few of my favorites,
>>>> but it seems to have done little good. In fact it crashed during the
>>>> intro movie, which it hadnt done before reinstall, but it does not
>>>> crash as often as before, managed to get about 2 hours of gameplay
>>>> before a crash while on holiday with a sim.
>>>>
>>>> So i guess what im asking is, do i need a patch? Is anybody else
>>>> getting the same problem? Ive searched the newsgroup but couldnt find
>>>> any realted posts so im sorry if this has been discussed before. Google
>>>> seems to relate this to a RAM problem, but this is impossible as i have
>>>> a great pc and play all games on highest possible settings
>>>> (muhahahaha), and to prove the point i installed it on my sisters pc
>>>> who also plays, and she had the same downloads and expansion packs, and
>>>> it also crashed, but so far only once, even though she hasnt had much
>>>> time to play it.
>>>>
>>>> So if this is caused by BV, can i remove BV by an uninstall of the pack
>>>> only (dont want to reinstall ALL of them again) and have little
>>>> unaffected? Or does having the pack installed change the way the game
>>>> functions - even though ive made only one sim so far, but i have
>>>> pressed the save button a few times with her and she was building
>>>> relationships...
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> R
>>>>
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