The Sims 2 Crashes After an Archive and Install

[ghall]

Okay, so I had to Archive and Install my OS (long story, I won't get into that now), and after it was done, I went to play the Sims 2: Open For Buisness, which I had recently bought and installed before I reinstalled Mac OS X, and it got to the loading screen, and crashed. I tried wiping everything that had to do with the game off my hard drive, and reinstalling it all, but no luck. I repaired permissions, and all that stuff.

I even contacted Aspyr tech support, but they told me to do the stuff I had already tried. Arrgh! What should I do?

[yellow]

Crashlogs say..... ?

[ghall]

Crap, I think I deleted the crash logs. I don't have the Sims 2 installed right now, since I deleted it again, after my reinstall. I'll install it now and start it up, and I'll post the crash log. Should take 20 minutes.

[yellow]

Did you delete anything that it might have left in the /Library/Application Support/ or /Users/Shared/ ?

[ghall]

Did you delete anything that it might have left in the /Library/Application Support/ or /Users/Shared/ ?

I deleted EVERYTHING and I'm reinstalling now. I'm on the Nightlife expansion, I should have it completly installed in a few minutes.

[yellow]

I would not install any expansions until you get the vanilla Sims 2 install to work.

[ghall]

I would not install any expansions until you get the vanilla Sims 2 install to work.

Waah wah waaaaah! :D

I'll just hold off installing Open For Buisness, and install the Nightlive UB patch.

[yellow]

Again.. start over. Install ONLY "The Sims 2".
Otherwise, you have no idea what is breaking where.

[ghall]

Okay, it's installing now! Also, I included the crash report if you want to check it out, it's rather long though.

[yellow]

2 complaints leap out at me...
possible sound issues, and possible video/OpenGL issues.

What kind fo Mac is this? Are you using a 3rd party sound card?

EDIT: scratch that, this is on your MBP, yes?

Was your Archive & Install a complte one, or did you preserve user settings?

[ghall]

2 complaints leap out at me...
possible sound issues, and possible video/OpenGL issues.

What kind fo Mac is this? Are you using a 3rd party sound card?

It's a MacBook Pro, that has undergone NO modifications except for adding some RAM. The RAM was 3rd party RAM. Should I remove the RAM and see what happens?

[yellow]

Should I remove the RAM and see what happens?

No. At least, not yet.

Was your Archive & Install a complte one, or did you preserve user settings?

[ghall]

No. At least, not yet.

Was your Archive & Install a complte one, or did you preserve user settings?

I'm pretty sure I preserved user settings.

Also, I just ran the game without any expansion packs. It loads up without crashing, but there's no audio.

[yellow]

I'd log in as another user and test out running it.. if the problems were based within your user, then you've inherited them from your A&I.

[ghall]

Nope, same thing. Still has no audio. It also skips the intro video.

[yellow]

Hrm... try the "GarageBand fix" real quick.

[ghall]

GarageBand fix?

[yellow]

Just open GarageBand and then quit it. It's a weird fix to some rare audio issues. I have no idea if it will help your issue, but it's a quick and easy thing to try.

[ghall]

Boo-ya! It works now. Not only that, but the audio in M$ Entourage is working again as well. Talk about killing 2 birds with one stone. Thanks so much.

Hey, maybe iTunes will stop being a B*** too.