det-cle pause problem

This just happened and i cant resolve it. When I play detroit vs cleveland and try to pause the game it frequently crashes. Any ideas?

Only detroit vs celveland or all of the teams?

yup only det and cle.

When the game crashes after pressing escape, you've got one of these problems.

Too many files in the sgsm directory.
Too many high resolution patches being used at one time.

The easiest thing you can do is remove some patches that are being used by those teams. That usually means any updated courts. Also, any cyberfaces bigger than 512x512 are a waste, and should be resized with FSHx.

I think a possible solution is to start putting patches into their respective VIV files. Remember that most, if not all files inside VIV files are compressed with EAZIP.

For instance, if you have a bunch of cyberfaces, you should use EAZIP to compress those fsh files(I suggest moving all the cyberfaces into a directory by themselves, then running "eazip -c *.fsh" from a commandline prompt. Then you can import them into the plyrface.viv file which is in the "sgsm\players" directory.

Since you are only experiencing this problem with Cle/Det, you can isolate it to the graphics used by those teams. If you have an oversized cyberface on one of those teams, remove it and see if it still crashes. Do the same thing with tattoo files, if it still crashes. The easiest way to stop the crashing is by removing the court, but damn those courts just kill EA's, and it is such a big part of the playing experience, personally I would rather remove some smaller patches.

ok thanks for the great advice i think i have to many files in my sgsm folder because it contains 520mb worth of assorted patches and i also think some of those CFs are larger than 512x512. I will do your suggestions immediately. thanks again

Hey Pdub, how can i delete a certain patch and also when i install a patch, does my Hard disk increase it's program?

To delete a patch you have to find all the files that are used by that patch and remove/delete them. I have no idea what you mean by the second part.

Oh sory about the second part, i mean that if you installed a patch will the memory of the computer will be increased or the RAM of the computer will increased

Both. If you install a patch, it will take some hard drive space, but not much. It may also take more memory when you run NBA Live, especially if it is a higher resolution than the original file.

Tried everything that i could but still it crashes. i just think there's just to many files on my sgsm folder instead i just reinstalled a clean copy of live then installed andrew's roster patch and everything is back to normal again. Too bad i did not install my courts, jerseys, player and other patches for fear of the game crashing again but the important thing is i can still play the game