Black screen in Neighborhood view?
Strangel:
Okay.. Here's ONE neighborhood I played in tonight:
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/Strange-Angel/SimCreepiness/ScreenShot129.jpg
Notice how everything looks normal? It looked like that BEFORE and AFTER I played in one of the lots.
Here's the OTHER neighborhood:
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/Strange-Angel/SimCreepiness/ScreenShot134.jpg
It looked fine when I started playing, aside from having a green, hilly grid for a preview picture. Still has that.
Both are custom 'hoods, and like I said, the second one looked completely normal on my first and second entry, while I was building sims. I put down two lots, played a little in both, exited back out to the neighborhood on a plan to make Downtown, and got a black screen. I thought at first it was just lagging a bit, my computer seems to be shooting for 100% CPU recently when it's usually running a fluctuation of 2%-15%. BUT. It doesn't matter how long I leave it up, it just doesn't load. After searching, all I could find that seemed to describe/show the same thing as I have was Lorelei's thread from a while back with a screenshot just like mine.
Now.. here's where her game and mine differ.. it's just that ONE neighborhood, not all of them.
Kazzandra:
It means your neighbourhood just overloaded your graphics card. I had this happen when I was playing an extremely large hood with tons of neighbourhood decorations. Yes, one day, you just place one too many lots...
I recommend turning down all of your graphic card settings to the lowest of low, and if that still leaves it black, blindly delete trees/ other objects. Click until you make it into a lot, and then exit to see if the problem is fixed.
You could use SimPE to remove decorations, but I say bollocks to that when you can have fun poking in the dark.
Strangel:
lol.. Thanks for the advice, Kazzandra. As far as it being one too many lots, I'd just made the 'hood - clean, no townies (aside from the Ottomas & Ramawhatevers, oddly enough) and put down two lots, made two sims, moved them into the two houses. I've never had a problem with this particular terrain before, but I suppose it could be ALL THE DAMN TREES! >.<
Okay I dug out the Terrain preview pic.. and tried your suggestion, which bought me time to drop in the other two houses/families I planned on putting here (on husband's basis that I've actually got a motherboard issue unrelated to Sims and/or graphics card) and to get a screenshot.
Here's what I'm seeing when I get the 'hood to show up. I deleted all the trees in the two circles and they're still showing on the landscape, but are no longer clickable. Now.. I've also noticed trees in the roadway when viewing in 'hood mode, but I've not seen any trees migrating onto lots/streets/etc from lot mode.
Kazzandra:
Now get out of your game and delete your groups.cache file in your Sims 2 user data folder. That should solve the problem. All new neighbourhoods since Bon Voyage spawn an ass-load of trees during creation-- don't know why they thought that would be a good idea.
By the way, I seriously doubt this has anything to do with your motherboard.
Strangel:
What he means is my game is running suddenly at 100% CPU after about an hour of holding open four tabbed pages in Firefox OR Explorer, where it used to fluctuate between 2% and 15%. I stopped installing at Seasons, so I don't have TSS, BV, FT, K&B, etc etc etc.. lol
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