I've recently gotten back into The Sims again after hearing about Late Night. I bought it, installed it, and was excited to play.

However, the game runs fine for maybe 15-20 minutes, then it starts going slower and slower and my laptop starts getting hotter and hotter, to the point where my laptop gets so hot that it just shuts down.

Any ideas how to fix this? I've got a feeling it has a lot to do with CPU usage. Right now I just play racing before the computer shuts down. I barely even have time to create a 4 person family.

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Oops! Sorry...a little computer retarded lol



Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.100608-0458)

System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-60 (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3838MB RAM
Page File: 2093MB used, 5794MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 10

Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M
Display Memory: 1065 MB

Driver Name: nvd3dum,nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2um, nvwgf2umx.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.7713 (English)
Driver Date/Size: 12/4/2008 02:42:00, 5898240 bytes


Hopefully this is enough?

Anything at all?

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Alright here's before:





And here's the after. It wasn't that bad today, tbh. It's been much, much worse...but there is the definite increase in temperature

Last edited by mdossantos047 : 1st Dec 2010 at 01:28 AM. Reason: Grammar lol

You definitely have a over heating issue. The more you play the more likely you are to do damage to your system.
There are a couple of things I noticed about your specs, other than being on the weak side:
You only have Windows Vista SP1 when SP2 has been out for some time
Same with DirectX, there is a DirectX 11 available
Your Graphics driver is nearly 2 years old.
Since you mention the laptop gets hot enough to shut down, my best advice to you is not to play the game anymore on that system.
See the Game Help:Your Computer is Like a Car^wiki Guide.

Well that sucks :/ God knows I don't have the money for a new computer.

Just read about the HP9700 Laptop having a notorious overheating problem because of bad motherboards...great.

Last edited by mdossantos047 : 1st Dec 2010 at 09:28 PM.

Actually I just got a cooling pad for my laptop and everything is fine now :D

You still need to monitor the temps. Once a total system shutdown happens, things may already be unstable.
And it may still happen again or worst comes to worst won't boot next time, if you're lucky enough that it didn't burst into flames as has been reported.

Have a good backup plan, in any case and back up often.

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