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							I just created a new neighbourhood with a custom hood that I have used before.  At most, I expected to have to go into PaintShop to make the neighbourhood picture work properly, but I have no idea what's up with this.   
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							I quit the game and restarted, and it's still black.  When I have the neighbourhoods at the opening screen though, it shows up normally? 
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							Simsbaby
							
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								INTP - I didn't do it.
								
								
								
								
								
								  
							 
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							Try pressing the tab key.     
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							Remember - a bimbo is for life and not just for christmas! 
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							Nothing worked, although all the sub-hoods worked.  I ended up just burninating it and making a new neighbourhood (yes the same one, and yes it worked this time).
 
  
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							simmiecal
							
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								No kittens within five miles of my house!  :)
								
								
								
								
								
								  
							 
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							This just happened to me tonight. Since installing OFB, I was getting a lot of crashes to desktop and funky graphics. The black screen was what finally made me check my drivers. There was one version that was newer than the one I had. Funny thing, either before or during the update of the video drivers, my directx got corrupted. Redownloaded directx and the new video drivers and so far, knock wood, so good. 
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							It's probably because you named your neighbourhood Utopia. Sims are never happy with their lives so they can't live in Utopia.    
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							My Sims are always in a euphoric state.     
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							My Sims are always in a euphoric state.    So that would be  Utopia, Euphoric ? (sorry, somebody had to say it, might as well be me)     
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							Reality is for those who lack imagination. 
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							Ruann
							
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							My Sims are always in a euphoric state.    Just because they're abusing the Bubble Blower doesn't mean they're euphoric!  They just think they are!  
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							You know, I don't think I've ever used the bubble blower, ever. I mainly keep them with freewill off and on macrotastics.     
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							Check your camera files. That happened to me once pre-OFB when I made an error in modifying the neighborhood camera. 
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							Camera files - speaking of I noticed that OFB was resetting my camera files (neighborhood camera), I finally fixed them once again and then marked the file read only. It hasnt changed since, I dont know though that if some point it will blow up but so far so good. 
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							simmiecal
							
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								No kittens within five miles of my house!  :)
								
								
								
								
								
								  
							 
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							Check your camera files. That happened to me once pre-OFB when I made an error in modifying the neighborhood camera.
  Interesting that you should mention that. I was just fiddling with those as well. I swear, I learn something new every time I come here.     
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							TheCheat
							
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							The only time I've ever encountered a black neighborhood is when I enabled post-processing before I tried to enter one on the game's load-up. Apparently neighborhood view doesn't like post-processing that much. Debug mode makes this happen sometimes too, which is why I removed them both from my userstartup.cheat file. 
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							I don't have postprocessing, but I do have debug in my start-up, which is far too convenient for me to remove anyway. 
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