Graphics Issues with Nightlife and NVidia FX5700LE
Jorenne:
OK, try and stay with me cause this gets a little long.
I was running TS2:Nightlife on my machine with no issues at all, as many specs as I could find follow:
CPU: Intel p4 3.00
System Memory: 512meg ddr
NVidia Geforce 5700le 128meg grahpics
Windows XP home sp2
Video driver version 78.01
Direct X 9.0c
Then my system pretty much fried and I had to replace the PSU, the Motherboard and CPU and now run
CPU: AMD Sempron 2600+
Motherboard: Winfast 760GXK8MG
System Memory: 512meg ddr
NVidia Geforce 5700le 128meg grahpics
Windows XP home sp2
Video driver version 81.85
DirectX 9.0c
I know I've taken a CPU drop, but it was all I could afford right now, and was willing to take a hit in performance and detail settings to account for this.
I reinstalled the Sims after rebuilding the machine yesterday and now neighbourhoods are either blacking out streets, or throwing blue and green misshapes across the screen.
I have tried adjusting the accelerated graphics settings and rolling back drivers to the ones I was using problem free in the past, but have had very little joy. I did get it to the point where it will run the game for approx 5 - 7 minutes before throwing graphics errors at me, but that's it.
Bangelnuts:
Quote from: Jorenne on 2005 November 06, 03:41:31
OK, try and stay with me cause this gets a little long.
I was running TS2:Nightlife on my machine with no issues at all, as many specs as I could find follow:
CPU: Intel p4 3.00
System Memory: 512meg ddr
NVidia Geforce 5700le 128meg grahpics
Windows XP home sp2
Video driver version 78.01
Direct X 9.0c
Then my system pretty much fried and I had to replace the PSU, the Motherboard and CPU and now run
CPU: AMD Sempron 2600+
Motherboard: Winfast 760GXK8MG
System Memory: 512meg ddr
NVidia Geforce 5700le 128meg grahpics
Windows XP home sp2
Video driver version 81.85
DirectX 9.0c
I know I've taken a CPU drop, but it was all I could afford right now, and was willing to take a hit in performance and detail settings to account for this.
I reinstalled the Sims after rebuilding the machine yesterday and now neighbourhoods are either blacking out streets, or throwing blue and green misshapes across the screen.
I have tried adjusting the accelerated graphics settings and rolling back drivers to the ones I was using problem free in the past, but have had very little joy. I did get it to the point where it will run the game for approx 5 - 7 minutes before throwing graphics errors at me, but that's it.
this is one of the rare times Im going to ever say to go over to the exchange they have some pointers as for whatever reason The AMD system itself has had issues with nightlife look unde technical issues. my daughter has the same spec as you do and when we first instakked nightlife on her computer she had trouble and the Info on the tech support for nightlife helped her get it working without graphic errors
Jorenne:
I've tried searching the bbs without much luck, but who knows :)
In the meantime here is a screenie so you can see more claerly the issue I'm having.
ZephyrZodiac:
First, have you toggled to daytime?>
Second, I also have NVidia, though I can't off-hand remember which one, but it didn't cause any problems with NL, but for a while I just assumed Downtown was meant to be dark - took a thirteen year-old to spot the day-night toggle button!
Jorenne:
Yeah it reverts to normal if I pan the camera but then will flick back to that image, and when I say normal, I mean the greenness, but the rivers are black.
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