Black screen in Neighborhood view?
toad:
Quote from: Strangel on 2008 May 17, 09:08:20
It looked fine when I started playing, aside from having a green, hilly grid for a preview picture. Still has that.
I'm not sure if this is still bothering you, but it's easy to fix - EA even posted on how to fix it: http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=91
The important bit:
"Adding a custom neighborhood picture
In order to create a custom picture to represent your neighborhood on the main menu, first save the picture you wish to use as a .png file (a 4x3 size ratio works best, but pictures with other proportions will be stretched to fit).
The file must be named N0XX_Neighborhood.png (where XX is the neighborhood number). Then place the file in the neighborhood's directory (e.g., My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N004)."
(You could put a picture of anything there, and it still shows up as your neighbourhood preview picture.)
Kazzandra:
Quote from: Strangel on 2008 May 18, 00:15:13
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
100% CPU... download Process Explorer and see what's using that much of your CPU. Usually it's a virus or an anti-virus software... you don't happen to have the PC Doctor suite, do you? ;D It acts more like a virus than a remedy.
Anyway, if someething other than your System Idle Process it taking up more a great deal of your processing power while you're screen is on the desktop, your problem might not be software related, but I still wouldn't bet on it.
Strangel:
angelofdarkness, that's perfect. Thanks! I hadn't realized that the terrain in question only had a Lush .png, I was using Dirt.
Kazzandra, I ran AdAware and McAfee whilst disconnected from the internet. It's the only way, apparently, for me to get it to complete the McAfee scan, otherwise it froze up with CPU listed at 100% for an extended length of time. Still took it a full day (talking like.. twelve hours) to scan, but both came up clean aside from AdAware finding the usual cookies, which I promptly removed. Those are the only scanners I use on this computer.
I keep my eye on the Task Manager when it starts acting up like this and it usually lists either Firefox or iexplorer as taking up masses of CPU. Not sure what triggers it, but once it starts, it's a sure decline to a hard reboot if I don't get ALL windows closed fast. Even then I have to reboot, but I can at least get the computer to respond once the windows have finished closing. If I just reopen the windows without shutting down, it escalates quickly back up to it.
gjam:
Quote from: Strangel on 2008 May 18, 02:44:02
Kazzandra, I ran AdAware and McAfee whilst disconnected from the internet. It's the only way, apparently, for me to get it to complete the McAfee scan, otherwise it froze up with CPU listed at 100% for an extended length of time. Still took it a full day (talking like.. twelve hours) to scan, but both came up clean aside from AdAware finding the usual cookies, which I promptly removed. Those are the only scanners I use on this computer.
I keep my eye on the Task Manager when it starts acting up like this and it usually lists either Firefox or iexplorer as taking up masses of CPU. Not sure what triggers it, but once it starts, it's a sure decline to a hard reboot if I don't get ALL windows closed fast. Even then I have to reboot, but I can at least get the computer to respond once the windows have finished closing. If I just reopen the windows without shutting down, it escalates quickly back up to it.
That was happening on my daughter's old PC a couple of years ago. It's some kind of malware that masquerades as internet explorer and sucks up all your CPU capacity. If you cancel the process on the faux IE (in Task Manager), you'll see a small process with a name that's a random string of 4 or 5 letters start running for just a few seconds, then the faux IE starts up again. If you cancel it several times in a row, it will go dormant for a while, but that's only a short term fix. It starts up again later. The usual antispyware and antivirus programs don't fix it. Or at least they didn't back then. It's been a while since I looked for information. I never did succeed in getting rid of it -- the PC was old and she wanted a laptop, so I finally gave up.
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