Graphical Weirdness in both neighborhood Screen and on lots...
Zeljka:
um, I never play the default hoods (long deleted) and the only time they regenerate is if I remove the entire EA Games folder from My Documents (I put it on my Desktop) then start the game.
A whole 'fresh' game folder will be generated, (including the default hoods) without reinstalling.
Turn the game off, replace what you need from your Desktop Sims folders and there you are...
flowerchile:
I had the exact same problem with my game after installing seasons, but I was using the Riverblossom Hills hood. I have an Nvidia GEFORCE GO 7400 graphics card, which seemed to be on the doomed list. I reinstalled my game and also started another user account. So I had 2 vanilla games. I deleted my entire downloads folder, (a bit drastic), and played the vanilla game for a while. No problems. I then started over with the CC, and slowly added things, playing every so often to see if I could pinpoint any particular item, which I couldn't. Since then (aside from totally fucking up my game a couple of weeks back), I've had no problems, whatsoever. Pretty well along the lines of what others have advised, so I hope that something helped :)
unicorngurl:
Well I tried it with my Strangetown neighborhood folder which is the original one that was added when he installed the sims. It works fine in his game and hasn't even been played except when I tested. And that also broke my graphics. I also remembered when i was setting up my Victorian hood I couldn't use certain custom neighborhood terrains, because they made my graphics card go nuts, not in this same way, but still odd all the same. So I've decided since I'd rather not pull my generations in neighborhood to my desktop and my CC as well and reinstall, since it works perfectly right now and who knows what issues my crappy card will have on next install that might break that. I found bodyshop memoryless clones of all the strange town sims, so I think I'll just make a new neighborhood for them, fix them with SimPE to some semblance of their old relationships, and have a pseudo Strangetown. Of course I am going to back up my current custom hood before I do this, just in case. And if I ever do reinstall I'll make sure to mark all the files I need to read only. Just in case they did get corrupted somehow. Thanks everyone for your advice, especially Flowerchile, for confirming what I thought which is that no matter what Nvidia card you get it seems to make your game do all sorts of odd random weirdness, so I know I'm not crazy. :)
B:
Quote from: unicorngurl on 2007 July 24, 17:40:59
Thanks everyone for your advice, especially Flowerchile, for confirming what I thought which is that no matter what Nvidia card you get it seems to make your game do all sorts of odd random weirdness, so I know I'm not crazy. :)
Not entirely true. My 8800 has been fine running S2 under Vista with current drivers, although most people will correctly point out that an 8800 is a bit much.
unicorngurl:
Ok lol maybe I overgeneralized. ;) Both this one and my old one did it though and I've seen lots of posts about them messing up oddly, as well as people here not recomending you get one if you build a computer for sims. Maybe they are finally fixing some of the issues with the newer ones. That would be nice, as they seem to be all thats ever in the lowwer end premade computers available in my area, so I always end up without much of a choice in my price range. :) So maybe they aren't bad but at least I still feel less crazy of like my game is having comre critical meltdown lol.
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