Graphic card problem?
ravencrow:
Hello everyone,
Oh boy where do I start. First of all please forgive me is I've posted in the wrong thread.
I had a mild stroke a few years ago, and the old synapsis' aren't firing the way they used to.
So pelt me with rocks if you must. I don't care as long as I find out what was happening.
I searched for similar problems on this site, actually anywhere I could, even ATI's support.
However, they gave me a list of troubleshooting tips to try, which yielded nothing.
I had bought a ATI Radeon x1900 256mb express video card almost a year ago.
It lasted approx. seven months, before I started experiencing strange graphical artifacts, etc..
I guess I should give you my specs. of my pc, since I just installed my old dinosaur of a video card, so the game doesn't play at all.
Quote
Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.070828-1515)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc
System Model: Dimension E521
BIOS: )Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM
Page File: 746MB used, 2985MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode
Now some actual pics of what was going on.
The last pic was towards the end. The "newspaper look" started to show up
on the townies, but only the females were effected, weird huh?
With the townies, the hair and clothing were affected, which showed in bodyshop too.
It was also all the original sims 2 base game hair and clothing.
~I tried a few things per the directions of ATI's support.
~I bought a new 500 watt PSU, and another two gigs of memory, totalling four gig's.
~As I mentioned earlier, I installed the newest driver updates for alot of my hardware.
~I always defrag, turn off background programs like virus programs, etc..
~Did a clean uninstall and reinstall for my base game, and extensions.
~Started up the game after taking out my download folder, and it was still happening.
I thought it must be my craphics card so I got a refund, and purchased a "BFG Tech BFGE96512GTE GeForce 9600GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card" from Newegg, that should be here in about a week.
But something is nagging at me, and I wonder if it is just the graphics card.
Anyway, I thought to come here since you are all a bunch of brilliant folks. Though I knew you might just pelt me, lol.
If you have any other questions, or if I didn't make myself clear, please let me know. Thank you for any help you can lend.
Ravencrow/earth2luna
Bruce Banner:
:) Graphical Artefacts are often caused by the graphics card overheating or being pushed beyond it's limits by a high spec game or application , although a bad set of graphic drivers can account for it too . So hopefully the new card will clear the problem up for you although it's impossible to be certain . The ' newspaper look ' is often caused by a corrupt or missing texture though and should be unrelated to the artefact problem . A corrupt or conflicting default override possibly ( default replacement skintone etc ) ? :-\ If it's one or more of the original game files that's corrupted though then you'd probably need to reinstall the game :-\
ZiggyDoodle:
By chance did you read through your Dell manual before installing the ATI Radeon (presuming it did not come installed on your computer)? I mention that only because on my rig, the manual stated I had to install a card fan if installing a new graphics card that used over 75 Watts.
Since you're saddled with Vista, your system is much newer than mine, but I thought it worth mentioning given your problem may be heat related. The reviews of the ATI Radeon 1900 card indicate that it runs hot.
ravencrow:
Hi, Bruce, so I should take out all my defaut skins after reinstalling? Would the same thing happen if you used defaut eye's too?
Thank you for your reply.
Hi Ziggy, no, I didn't read it, of course. After all of this happened, I did read that the ATI X1900 ran hot.
It wasn't the original card that came with my pc, almost a year ago.
But because I needed to return the ATI, the orginal card I did reinstall is a Nvidia Getforce 7300 LE, which
played my game for about a week, and then wouldn't play my game any longer.
Do you know if my GeForce 9600GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express will need a card fan too? Do heat sinks help with cooling?
Thank you.
Bruce Banner:
:-\ I can't say for definite that taking out your custom defaults will fix the newspaper look because I'm not totally certain that's your problem , but a default override or a corrupt original game file/s would probably be the main suspects because that would explain large swathes of your townies being affected . Just a normal corrupt texture for a basic custom outfit would probably only affect a small number of sims :-\ Once you get your new card up and working then take out your custom default overrides ( you didn't say eyes were affected by a problem so you should be ok to leave those in ) and see if it clears up your newspaper look . If it doesn't then you may have to do the dance of the discs again . If it does clear it up then slowly , but surely reintroduce your other default overrides until the problem happens again . Then if you find out what the problem is using that method ( if it is indeed a crapped out override ) then just jetison it and use either the games own version of whatever or a custom override that does the same thing by someone else :-\
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