Funny Sims graphical glitches - with Videos!
Bruce Banner:
:-\ Bad graphical artefacts like you're experiencing Baratron are often the result of either a bad graphic driver glitch , a performance issue because a computer's graphics specs may only just meet the minimum requirements , or a graphics hardware issue caused by overheating of the card . It can also be caused by overclocking a graphics card ( causing artefacts when said card is pushed beyond it's limits ) . What is your make and model of graphics card ? :-\
cwykes:
Overheating huh - first time I saw the problem, I'd been playing for hours... :( Maybe it's now partly fried?
Don't think I'm overclocking unless that happens by accident - I haven't set it up that way.
Mine's a Nvidia Radeon 9250, so it's low end, but not off the bottom of the scale. I'm hopeless with drivers. I've got ATI catalyst drivers version 8.252.0.0 is installed and I think that's the latest. I'll do some more poking around.
Maybe I'd just better turn the graphics settings down all round and see if it helps.
Bruce Banner:
:) If you don't know if you're overclocking , and you're using your Catalyst drivers without mucking around with the settings then you aren't overclocking your card because it's a deliberate action ( usually with ATI Tool for ATI cards like yours ) to squeeze as much performance as possible out of your card but if overdone can cause artefacts due to the card being pushed beyond it's limits . While not being a World beater , your Radeon 9250 should be able to cope with Sims 2 without artefacting ( you should probably get a bit of jittery movement on big , busy lots if your graphics settings are set high but you shouldn't get artefacts ) because it's well above internal graphics chips and most people with those won't get artefacting . Try various things to test your problem out though . Turn ' Smooth Edges ' down , Shadows lower and Lighting lower for minimal visual impact and then only turn down the ones like textures etc if you really , really have to because they are the ones that will make the graphics look a bit crap if you turn them too low . You said it happened after playing for hours though , so I would personally play more frequent but shorter sessions if you think the card is feeling it's age a bit . Try some older Catalyst drivers too because the newest couple of sets (7.9 and 7.10 although listed as compatable ) havent worked at all with my Radeon 9600 Pro so maybe they're not paying much attention to older generation cards like ours now with all these fancy new ones available these days . So maybe try some in the low 7's and the high 6's so they aren't TOO old :-\
ScoobyDoo:
I've got a 9250 too, at least until the 8800 GT are no longer being overpriced. The Catalyst drivers are a couple years old i think, the latest ones I don't think support it anymore. I know for a fact their not supported in Vista and can cause studdering issues with Sims 2. I temporarily switched to a 1600 and sims ran very sweet. I've had their hair vertices get stuck in the middle of the screen one in a very blue moon. I usually just close the lot and reopen it and fixes it, so I'm guessing a Sim/driver issue.
baratron:
Quote from: Bruce Banner on 2007 November 01, 14:59:35
:-\ Bad graphical artefacts like you're experiencing Baratron are often the result of either a bad graphic driver glitch , a performance issue because a computer's graphics specs may only just meet the minimum requirements , or a graphics hardware issue caused by overheating of the card . It can also be caused by overclocking a graphics card ( causing artefacts when said card is pushed beyond it's limits )
Yup, I said that ;D. I was testing the lot for Plasticbox, and by the time the graphics went that wonky, I had booted up the Sims, played for a few minutes, quit or let it crash, rinse, repeat, something like 15 or 20 times in a row. I was also running Xchat and Opera at the same time, and Opera & Sims 2 don't play well together at the best of times. And I had also turned all of the graphics options up to maximum, even though I usually don't play using those options. The videos show what happens when you completely run out of memory. I videoed it because it was funny, not because I need advice.
Once I'd rebooted Windows, everything was back to normal :). To be honest, it's quite impressive that you could run the game 20 times in one Windows session before things are wonky enough to need a reboot.
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