Wonky Colored Question Mark Tiles
Clampdairyola:
Not that I'm happy anyone has this problem, but I am glad I'm not alone.
I did NOT have 1.3 patch installed. I did a reinstall because of that crapppy patch in didn't update to it again. I also use CCleaner before install. I have the Pro version.
My specs are:
Windows (64 bit) XP Media Center Edition 2005 SP 3
Intel Pentium D 2.80 GHz
1 GB RAM (I know I need to upgrade)
Radeon 4850 HD 1 GB Graphics Card
This lot is a default lot. Wolff house in Sunset.
I'm going to move them out and see what happens. I've tried everything else and it just keeps coming back.
Simsample:
Is it happening in all save games, or just one? For example, if the Wolff house is affected, when you create a fresh Sunset Valley game is the Wolff house there affected too? If so, does it still happen if you create a fresh Sunset Valley world after replacing Program Files\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3\ GameData\ Shared\ NonPackaged\ Worlds\ Sunset Valley.world with a fresh copy from the install disc? These tests would tell us if it is a savegame\ world problem or not. Also it would be worth testing with a completely clean Documents\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3 folder if you haven't already.
Bouncing Pink Ball:
The question mark walls happened to me shortly after patching to 1.3. I had IS and AM both at that time, so this was before I dropped IS for the AM story driver. As mentioned by others, the wall patterns were disappearing after returning from playing at a community lot or making changes in CAS. All I did was, as also mentioned previously, mess about with palette alterations for a minute, restore the pattern I wanted and voila, no more question marks. I've since played this same lot with no troubles.
Since upgrading to 1.4, I haven't seen the question marks again but that doesn't really mean anything. When it happened, I thought the problem was computer related, as in my game being corrupted by lost data due to less-than-optimal hardware. At the same time as the odd coloured walls appeared, I could hear my fans chugging and this, along with the usual big burst of hot air out the side of my laptop, tends to signal that I'm asking more of my computer than it can give me.
Now a question for you; Did you install any extra files with the custom hair or only the hair? I just remembered that some cc comes with it's own resource.cfg. I doubt that's your problem but I'm trying to think of anything that could be causing a conflict.
simovitch:
i actually had the riddler paintings from a custom house i got from Mts i never seemed to run out of them, this was before any patch and i dont have awesomemod installed
diana:
I got the question marks after installing 1.3 patch, and that was after a complete manual unistall/reinstall of the game before I could even patch it. I've had 3 lots affected so far, the Wolff house, Goth house and Art Gallery, none of which were altered or played by me in any way other than a quick visit to the art gallery.
As for details, I had a couple mods in game at that point, AM being one and no other downloaded content except items I purchased from EA Store. As for the Goth house, I ended up demolishing the entire lot and replacing it with a new house and lot and haven't had the problem recur there. The Wolff house I tried cleaning off the entire lot and rebuilding because I didn't want to demolish the lot and lose the beautiful scenery buff, that didn't work because the marks came back after returning to the lot. So I demolished the entire Wolff lot and replaced it with a new house lot and haven't had the problem recur there. But with the Art Gallery, I demolished the entire lot and replaced it with an exact copy of the same gallery which I got from a fresh neighborhood and that one reverted back to question marks. So right now i don't even have an Art Gallery in the city since the question marks were a bit much to constantly look at. And that's all I know so far.
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