The Sims/Livin large

I have a Dell I8000 notebook with W2K, 512MB of memory with an ATI 32MB video card. I installed the Sims Livin Large and about a halh hour into the game it sets my display to either 800x600 or 640x480 and crashes the system.

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I have a Dell I8000 notebook with W2K, 512MB of memory with an ATI 32MB video card. I installed the Sims Livin Large and about a halh hour into the game it sets my display to either 800x600 or 640x480 and crashes the system. Crtl-Alt-Del won't even bring up the taxk bar, I can't get to the start bar. I have to power down. Has anyone expereinced this problem?
 
Some other things, people who use this did they install on a FAT32 partition or an NTFS partition? Which is better?
 
Lastly, did they install as administrator or as a power user?
 
Thanks,
 
Michael

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The filesystem shouldnt have anything to do with it at all. FAT32 or NTFS should work out fine.
Do you have the latest drivers and patches for your system?

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I definetly have the lastest patches and what I can tell from the Dell site I have the lastest video drivers. Do you have any other clues? It works fine on my desktop PC, but it has problems on my laptop. thanks.
 
Michael