I'm avoiding re-installing this shit again, so in the meantime I'm sorting some stuff into lists. For Linux research purposes.
Edit: Standby Memory Allocation on Windows 10: New info coming in: That's not the issue. However, what i wrote below about TM is my own experience and has worked for me (without doing what Jessa was saying in the SB memory part, I remembered, hope I didn't waste anybody's time). Does it make sense? idk, but it's harmless, and if it's actually a thing and not just a freak coincidence, and can help anybody else then why not. I do remember trying it with and without cleaning cache :/ [for fuck sake the nerve on EA to put out for sale a new edition without improving it to 64bit].
As discussed by Jessa below, it's an OS problem. What worked for me, for some bizarre reason was to keep Task Manager on before and while playing the game. without it my game was crashing often, on my main non gaming computer. What solved it was fixing windows... for anyone's interested, the gory details are at the bottom of the post under the cut.
+ That combined with clearing cache often.
Jessa's video (Memory Allocation and 4GB Patch Repair).
Edit: Turns out this video was pulled back, so basically just make sure the patch is applied?
1. Secound opinion on the whole matter by BrandiNotBroke [the whole #pink flash diaries tag is interesting]:
💬 26 🔁 129 ❤️ 468 · Oh, that's interesting. first time I'm hearing that claim. Now i understand what happened. in my legacy edition copy ☠
2. Leefish forum - Sims2 Graphic Cards:
3. @celebkiriedhel's Post (Texture Memory):
Do you have problem with Low resolution? Wonder why you can’t change your screen size from 800x600, and your shadows are stuffing up?
There
Linux:
@teaaddictyt & @niamh-sims About Linux.
💬 23 🔁 94 ❤️ 271 · For anyone who is on the fence (or already made the jump) about running TS2 on Linux, this is an amazing video.
@teaad
2. @nonsensical-pixels about Linux.
💬 21 🔁 32 ❤️ 172 · A FINAL UPDATE FOR MY PINK SOUP EXPERIMENTATION · hellow, new update, for now this is gonna look a bit more like a rand
3. @brandinotbroke, first Linux supporter I've encountered here. A comprehensive post:
💬 10 🔁 23 ❤️ 78 · Linux distros - what is the difference, which one should I choose? · Caution, VERY long post.
With more and more simmer
4. @grilledcheese-aspiration, Transferring software and such from Windows to Linuxs:
💬 13 🔁 15 ❤️ 36 · Blender is actually made for Linux first and foremost, so you're in luck there. You don't even need Lutris, just open yo
Texture Memory Fuckery (Pink Soup, among other things):
Kiri's post linked at the beginning, first an foremost.
Original Post by @fireflowersims, plus; re-blog by @ovytia. Both of their tags, and comment:
💬 2 🔁 63 ❤️ 493
2. A recap on Pink Soup/Texture Sizes by @rockethorse in the comments:
💬 31 🔁 9 ❤️ 89 · That pink soup post is well-intentioned but loudly wrong. fwiw
That's it for now. Any more information or good links will be welcome.
Task Manager thing briefly, for the curious (as if it interests anyone else but me, but in the interest of keeping track).
So the game was crashing often. That thing was easy to spot because the laptop would make loud airplane noises when I'd load the game. It got stuck or something, so I went to end it by force with task manager and noticed that all the resources where used to the max - right up until I'd open TM, and then everything would cool down. Like it was playing hide and seek with me. So I figured I'd get smart with it right back, and just leave TM open the whole time. Low and behold, the game stopped crashing. That combined with clearing cache often. Does it make sense? idk, but the computer works in mysterious ways.
