Hi Hhoky,
Thank you for the compliment of the year!
I'm sorry that your laptop isn't up to par with the requirements,
if it's any consolation, I'm in the exact same boat with my Dell.
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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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Hhoky Wrote:
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| Thanks JimmyS your a doll. Yea I finally got a response from Intel "we are
| aware of the problem with the 915gm/gms - 910gml chipset family . However we
| have no patch for this problem yet. Wait time unestimatable, we are sorry for
| the inconvience, We have other display devices avalible if your interested in
| purchasing a new one...." Well fat lot of help that was. Oh well guess I
| either wait or go spend more money on a computer I just bought.
| Anyway thanks for your help. You are the bomb when it comes to this kinda
| stuff. Keep up the good work Superman of the Comp world.
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Hhoky,
||
|| Unfortunately, unless you have a really high end laptop, most
|| laptops do not meet these strict requirements for Sims 2:
||
http://thesims2.simshost.com/systemrqts/
||
|| For the list of graphic cards supported by SIMS 2:
||
http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=21
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
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|| Hhoky Wrote:
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||| I have tried everything I have seen here, and Jimmy S. I went to your site
||| and tried almost all your suggestions (the ones that might apply) and still
||| nada! I can play the sims2 with no problems at all but when i go to start the
||| Body shop I get an error from Direct3d (D3DERR_INVALIDCALL) then it
||| terminates. Any ideas? I have even uninstalled and reinstalled the game,
||| drivers, directx, etc. Grrrr. I love the Sims but I am starting to not like
||| my new laptop. Thanks.
