Flashing red walls Sims 2 on XP with VMware

[solnatalia]

I didnt know exactly where or how to post my problem... so im hoping you can help me anyways.


Im running XP SP2 on VMware and im trying to play sims 2 with all the EP. I installed the VWware Tools... but I keep getting this flashing red walls... and I know its because of the graphic card i have on the "windows"
The thing is that my mac has a GeForce 8600M GT which its compatible with all the EP.
Ive tried everything and I cant fix it. Its driving me nuts!

 

[Eidorian]

My money is on the fact you're running the game in a virtual machine. Try it out in a native installation of Windows.

 

[solnatalia]

My money is on the fact you're running the game in a virtual machine. Try it out in a native installation of Windows.

I have a PC too, but obviously it sucks... has windows vista so the game cant run there and 1 GB RAM.
I really would like the game to run in mac...

 

[Eidorian]

I have a PC too, but obviously it sucks... has windows vista so the game cant run there and 1 GB RAM.
I really would like the game to run in mac...

Install Windows on your Mac but not in a virtual machine? I don't see why you can't run it on your PC either.

 

[solnatalia]

Install Windows on your Mac but not in a virtual machine? I don't see why you can't run it on your PC either.

I dont know how to do that... im not a fan of windows actually. How do i do that?... and what about leopard??

It doesnt work cos vista already uses almost all my RAM and its 13 GB of expansion packs it doesnt even let me install it. and... I dont have enough free space left anyways

 

[RITZFit]

bootcamp...its easy. look for the boot camp assistant in the utilities folder

 

[solnatalia]

bootcamp...its easy. look for the boot camp assistant in the utilities folder

thanks.

 

[solnatalia]

bootcamp...its easy. look for the boot camp assistant in the utilities folder

did that and messed up all my computer... i had to format everything so i lost everything i had.
i didnt even try to install windows and mac didnt run, it kept saying something about not bootable device found...

anyways... thanks anyways... xDD

lol

 

[KwaJ]

I didnt know exactly where or how to post my problem... so im hoping you can help me anyways.


Im running XP SP2 on VMware and im trying to play sims 2 with all the EP. I installed the VWware Tools... but I keep getting this flashing red walls... and I know its because of the graphic card I have on the "windows"
The thing is that my mac has a GeForce 8600M GT which its compatible with all the EP.
Ive tried everything and I cant fix it. Its driving me nuts!

I had flashy red walls and was able to fix

in your most recent expansion pack install, go to the TSData > Res > Config > Graphic Rules.sgr

Find the line:
boolProp forceSoftwareDevice true

I changed it to
boolProp forceSoftwareDevice false

Fixed my issue!!

My VMWare setup for reference
I used VMWare Workstation 17 player
I set up the virtual machine with Win7
2 processor 3ghz CPU
2gb ram

Host Computer:
Windows 10
Intel i7 3Ghz 8cpu
10gm VRAM (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080)