Graphical Weirdness in both neighborhood Screen and on lots...
unicorngurl:
Last night I recently began having a rather odd issue with the graphics in my games. When I enter neighborhood screen or lots, the graphics "flash" in and out for lack of a better term, and also become weirdly pixelated. In the neighborhood screen they will look ok until I move the camera or the mouse, after that they flicker in and out between being correct and pixelated with evey mouse or camera move. The same thing happens on lots.
Here are some pictures that hopefully clarify what is going on. I apologize for the size, but any smaller and the issue is hard to see. In the second picture the glitch is hard to make out, but the whole lot is basically as pixelated and flashy as Pascal's head.
This just started last night totally out of the blue. I had the issue once before while running a screen capture program at the same time as Sims 2, when I removed it the issue resolved, and it didn't happen every time, only once in a while. As of now I am not running anything besides Sims 2, and have closed all background tasks before running, even my antivirus program. I've also tried it with and without Gunmods camera mod, which I've had forever, and with and without his lighting mod. Have loaded the game with and without all my custom content as well makes no difference. I thought it may have been an overheating issue, so I tried again this morning, after leaving the computer off all night, still no luck.
My graphics card is an Nvidia GEforce 7300 ( I know the evil, but the computer was all I could afford, and until now I've had no issues, no bluscreen of doom nothing) I am also running Windows Vista. Prior to the graphics glitches I had done nothing, hadn't installed any new graphics drivers or expansions. The only thing I did was restore Strangetown to my neighborhoods from the backup in the game files. Last night after the graphics weirdness I updated my drivers, but not a thing changed.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Sorry the post was longwinded, but I figured the more details the more likely someone would have some idea what went wrong. Thanks again for reading.
B:
If you temporarily clear your downloads folder and start a new hood does the corruption still appear?
unicorngurl:
Update... it's the Strangetown that doing it.... ??? I don't know why or how, but when I copy it in my graphics go broken, but when I take it out they fix. I've always restarted the original Maxis hoods this way and never had this problem. I did it by going to Programfiles/EAGames/TheSims2/TSData/Res/UserData/Neighborhoods, and copying and pasting the N002 from there. Is there a different way I should go about this from now on, or could it have become corrupted somehow? Is there somewhere else there is a working clean copy that is awesome and doesn't suck? Now I'm even more confused, but at least I can play my custom neighborhood.
:)
Edit: I also tried it getting a new copy of the N002 file from my husbands computer as he has his own copies of all the games, and I thought maybe he'd have a better working one. That didn't work either... I guess my graphics card just hates Strangetown?
B:
Quote from: unicorngurl on 2007 July 22, 21:28:28
I've always restarted the original Maxis hoods this way and never had this problem. I did it by going to Programfiles/EAGames/TheSims2/TSData/Res/UserData/Neighborhoods, and copying and pasting the N002 from there. Is there a different way I should go about this from now on, or could it have become corrupted somehow?
I generally just delete the neighborhood I wish to restart from my user folder, and the game recreates it the next time I load.
If you copied the hood properly, and assuming your problem can indeed be traced to Strangetown, something happened to the N002 directory you mention above. A reinstallation is probably the simplest fix. For future reference, it's generally a good idea to set all files in the Program Files\EA Games\whatever to "Read Only" so nothing gets screwed up by accident.
It also occurs to me that you might be able to find the N002 files on your cd. If not, I would be willing to help you acquire my mint copy of Strangetown.
unicorngurl:
Thanks I'll check the CD later tonight, before I try a 2 hour reinstall lol. I'll let you know if it works out. Thanks for all the help!!
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