cant start the sims 2 (running vista

[Zeon]

well i recently just bought seasons and all expansion packs and installed them but when i try to start seasons it just hangs and show a black screen i can still see the start bar thought but not able to do anything else.tried reinstalling and playing only the sims 2 but doesnt work.i think its vista.since my bro was able to play it on his com on xp but not vista(he has both vista and xp)

my cpu specs are
3ghz
1023ram
6600nvidia

my bro has double the power of my cpu so i think thats not the problem and of course were running vista.help is apreciated

[South]

hmmm... odd considering im on vista and it works flawlessly... have you tried installing patches from the exchange?

[jordi]

Seasons may stay black for up to multiple minutes when first started. This is not a Vista issue, but something in Seasons.
It is not actually hung, but it is preallocating resources.

On my system it takes about 5 minutes before the Seasons loading screen appears. On my sister's system it takes well over 10 minutes.

[Zeon]

yes we did download all the patches on the exchange still didnt worked thought and for more information me and my bro vista is fully updated

edit:my bro waited for an hour and still dindt worked and it started beeping

[jordi]

Try running in windowed mode. It could be a display settings/resolution problem.

Instructions here (http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Windowed_Mode).

If it works in windowed mode but not normally, make sure your videocard drivers are up-to-date.

[Zeon]

problem solved windows defender thought it was an unauthorized program and blocked it it seems was finally able to see the window when i ran in windowed mode so thx for the help guys XD