Flickering, transparent Sims - why, and what to do?
snapdragon:
have a new problem in the game and am hoping someone can tell me if it means there's a problem with my graphics card or if FT is somehow causing it. Suddenly yesterday I noticed that some objects in the house I was playing were flickering or pulsing. I'd had a fire on the lot that seemed similar to another series of fires on another lot that had destroyed an entire family, and then the flickering started.
I played a different lot, a new one that I have not played much at all, and after about an hour into the game, the sims started flickering. Their bodies will disappear and then come back, or parts of their costumes will show but not the whole thing.
What does this mean? Should I uninstall and reinstall FT, or is my (new) graphics card messed up? My computer is only a few months old and has 3 GB of RAM. The graphics card is ATI HD 2600 .
GayJohnScarritt:
Did you change the screen resolution/size? My game doesn't like some of the screen resolutions. When you move the mouse/pointer, everything snaps back into focus then they fade out again?
snapdragon:
No, the mouse pointer doesn't seem to affect what happens. I haven't changed anything on my computer. I guess something got corrupted.
Jade:
This sounds a bit familiar to me with troubles I had with my ati 2900. Have you tried running the game in windowed mode? I still have to run mine like this to prevent wierd flashing of polygons. I also found that having updated sound and motherboard drivers was a help, due to vista being rough at the start.
snapdragon:
Quote from: Jade on 2008 May 25, 19:59:16
This sounds a bit familiar to me with troubles I had with my ati 2900. Have you tried running the game in windowed mode? I still have to run mine like this to prevent wierd flashing of polygons. I also found that having updated sound and motherboard drivers was a help, due to vista being rough at the start.
Not sure what you mean by "windowed" mode. I have been playing the game on this computer for about a month, so would it take that long for the problem to present itself? I tried so hard to find a laptop with an ATI graphics card because I didn't want to have to deal with nvidia problems, so if it's the card, that's depressing. I did update the driver just today, after this problem started. I haven't played the game since updating.
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