Funny Sims graphical glitches - with Videos!
baratron:
I've been testing Plasticbox's new row or terraced houses to try to find out what's making them crash. This has involved lots of changing the combination of my Downloads, booting up Sims 2, playing for a bit, then quitting. Repeat.
I also have a graphics chip that shares memory with the computer itself. Yesterday while testing the lot I managed to run out of memory to the extent I obtained some utterly bizarre graphical glitches. Of course, I videoed them to share :D.
The first video seems fairly normal in terms of texturing - the house and sims are recognisable. However, there are strange and random jaggies and lighting effects. I especially like the way the sofa inside the house appears stuck in the legs of my playable sim outside the house ~20 seconds into the video!
The second video is a complete & utter freak of nature. The house has no floors, the sims have no faces or animations - just meshes with the arms stuck out to the sides. There is a strange strobing effect on the meshes, and yet more random jaggies. My favourite part comes at the very end, where one sim walks to the toilet, trailing his arm across the screen - then splits in half!
The videos are hosted on my Sims 2 site on Pescado's Malaysian server, so if MATY itself is laggy, the video downloads will be too. Right-click and hit save to be sure of them arriving... sometime, or click & attempt to stream them through Windows Media Player. In my copious free time this evening (;D), I might upload them to YouTube as well.
Enjoy!
ebonyspiral:
My god, the second one looks like it's full of hovering, winged monsters. Scary. The toilet bit made me laugh aloud. :D
Not quite as bizarre, but I wish I'd filmed when this kid had a bad hair day.
No matter where she walked, her pigtails remained stuck to the floor. Ouch.
cwykes:
Serious lag buffering those videos. 10mins or so for a 50sec video - twice. :(
I have weird graphical issues at the moment - similar but not identical. I don't have BV, only base + OFB + Seasons patched. My first problem is random jagged stuff across the screen - quite like your video 1, but I've never seen grey lines like your foreground problem. I've had multicoloured jagged stuff like your grey foreground. I've also had lines like those on the fight and in post 2. It doesn't happen all the time either - some days I'm fine and happens on the hood screen as well as on lots. I've cleaned up the PC in case it's memory/caching related and I'm working on reducing downloads in the hope it's a conflict. Not that I know what I'm doing, but both seemed worth doing in their own right. I'll take pics next time it happens.
I'm going to mention my other problems in case they are related and/or ring any bells:
Second problem is serious lag on the 'hood screen of my biggest hood (it's not that big as I don't have a uni or downtown attached or pets) It lags so badly I can't navigate around it at all until it's caught up with itself. I actually had to reduce the graphics settings on the 'hood screen to be able to move around and select lots!
Third is that I can't get into a couple of hoods at all - the loading screen for the hood just flashes on and off. I can get into sub-hoods though. It was OK til the seasons patch. I re-installed Seasons and now can't get into different hoods.
Riez Forester:
Malaysian server huh? Good thing I'm in Malaysia then :P.
*click and watch* :P
Gwill:
Quote from: ebonyspiral on 2007 November 01, 02:34:29
My god, the second one looks like it's full of hovering, winged monsters. Scary. The toilet bit made me laugh aloud. :D
Not quite as bizarre, but I wish I'd filmed when this kid had a bad hair day.
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No matter where she walked, her pigtails remained stuck to the floor. Ouch.
I had that same hair glitch. All her hair was centered on a point smack in the middle of the screen. It didn't matter where I moved the camera, or the sim, the hair stayed anchored in the centre of my view.
I used the lot debugger to change her hair, and I haven't seen it since.
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