I got my wife a copy of Sims 2 for her upcoming birthday and she's been trying to play it on my lap-top. She reaches a certain point in the game (where her Sims fall in love, apparently) and the computer locks up and requires a battery out restart. On restarting Windows[1] (XP Pro, if you're interested) it reports that the graphics driver failed during a drawing operation. The card is a Radeon 9000 and a quick search of the web shows there were some new drivers out for it last month. I've downloaded them, but when I try to install them it tells me that it can't. The exact message is something utterly unhelpful like, "Unable to upgrade any components". I'm logged in with admin permissions and the drivers appear to be the right ones for the hardware and OS, anybody got any thoughts before the wife starts demanding to use my good machine 23 hours a day to play the bloody Sims? [1] And unless you can get Sims on *nix and convince EDS, who own the lap-top, to change their worldwide standard platform, please don't bother telling me to get rid of Windows. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, COSOC#9, KotTFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
<snip> The drivers you have are they the laptop maufacturers ones or the graphic card manufacturers versions? -- Steve Parry http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk http://www.arrivedeprived.org.uk/ K100RS SE F650 (not forgetting the SK90PY)
Oh it's Mr MacMuck with his blingbook. Stitch this smartarse http://www.ubergeek.tv/article.php?pid=55
Disturbingly like a fair proportion of mac equipped commuters and their irritating on train conversations.
Uninstall the old drivers completely first. Reboot. Now install the latest ones, from the ATI site. Then install DirectX 9.0c (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx) maybe another reboot... Should all be ok afterwards.
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Battery out? Doesn't holding down the power button stop it? <snip> Anyway, what someone else said about uninstalling the current drivers, rebooting, blah, blah, blah, should fix it. I'm not sure you can get the drivers direct from ATI - you might have to go to the Dell website. Or ask me nicely, as I've already got them.
