I was having the problem with the travel days not counting down until I moved AwesomeMod from the WA directory to the TS3 one. I have no idea why that fixed it, but it did... for now, anyway. I probably jinxed it by telling you.

I'm also having this problem. It can't be mods because I only use one. I'm willing to bet it's yet another issue with the patch.

That doesn't surprise me. There is almost no sense of humor in TS3 compared to the other two.

My Sim, who's in the medical career and recently lost her beeper in an inventory purge, is still called to the hospital for emergencies. The beepers do nothing.

Okay, I presume you're making fun of my post. My excuse: it was 7am and I had not slept in over 24 hours. Next time I find myself in that situation, I will lurk moar.

Anyway, I thought of the perfect example of TS3-style genetics in real life: Rumer Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. See? Sometimes genetics do work like that in the real world.

Edited for clarification.

I may be wrong, but I don't think she was calling you mean-spirited, OpiumGirl. She said it reminds her of mean-spirited, shallow people in real life. I think I know where she's coming from.

It seems to me that we judge females more harshly than males when it comes to physical appearance, and we're so conditioned to it that we don't even notice this glaring double standard. People continue to point out "fugly" girls and women in TS3, but so far I have yet to see one person complain about the looks of the guys. It reminds me of high school when everyone seemed to think that ugly was the worst possible insult you could throw at a girl; apparently, I was the only one who thought that stupid and boring were far worse.

Even in a virtual world, women are under constant visual scrutiny. I find that just a little unsettling.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen a Sim fart yet? I know I haven't.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the very impressive manual that came with the original release of The Sims; it's probably the only one I've read through more than once.

EA's site says that you only have to "disable" Daemon Tools; it doesn't say anything about uninstalling it. Do you actually have to remove it completely to fix the problem? I ask because this may affect my decision to purchase the "official" version of the game.

The arr'd version probably left some crap behind in your registry. I use CCleaner to clean my registry whenever I uninstall something.

I was under the impression that male pregnancy is a bug. Besides, the thing I liked about male pregnancy in TS2 was not just that they could get pregnant, but that they could get pregnant with alien babies via unauthorized anal probing. The idea was cute and humorous.

Speaking of which, does anyone else think that TS3 seems to lack a sense of humor compared to the other two?


Interesting. Could you tell us what the new items are?

You know, at first I was really having fun with this game. However, now that I'm over the initial new-and-shininess effect of a brand new game, I'm starting to hate the fact that they left so much out -- maybe even more than they added. Let's see...

- Aliens and male pregnancy
- Memories
- Interests
- Dreams
- Cut scenes
- Photo albums
- Hot tubs
- Pianos
- Genetics that don't suck ass

All those things were included in TS2 base game. I know they just want to make sure that TS2 still has some advantages over TS3 so that it will continue to sell. But no hot tubs or pianos? Come on... Even TS1 base game had those (if memory serves). I never realized how much I used hot tubs and pianos until they were taken away. I'll be pissed if either of those things are offered in the Store later.

This model has a super punchable face...

What exactly does "separate partition" mean? I'm not familiar with the term "mount" either. I just set everything in C:\Program Files\EA GAMES as read-only. Is that the wrong way to do it?

I got one of those at Kinko's for $10. You can try looking there if you live in the US.

I wouldn't worry about it, Trigger. I have an AMD Athlon 64 Dual Core processor and a GeForce 8600 GTS, and the game runs beautifully. However, I only have the expansions up to OFB (plus FFS), so that could be why I haven't experienced any crashing yet. I'm not too worried, though. My system is optimized, I have plenty of RAM, and I run the game with the Win2000 Launcher. Win2k Launcher does the same thing as ForceCore, plus it has some very nifty extra features such as the "application priority" setting which allows you to decide how much CPU power you want to use to run the game. I set mine on "MAYHEM" since I don't run any other programs while playing TS2.

Edit: Removed an extra "yet."

That is so kinky.

Anyway, this reminds me of the toddlers rolling Woohoo Wants, which can happen if you delete Sims in-game. Have you ever done that? If not, then I apologize for wasting your time. I am new and definitely not awesome.

Wow... This is common enough that someone made a fix for it? That's great news. Thank you!

As far as glitches go, I am grateful that this is one of the few things I've had to deal with so far. *knocks on wood* However, it's still annoying the shit out of me. I just want to be able to take a picture of my Sim eating a bag of chips without this ugly shadow popping out of it...



My specs (are probably not necessary, but I'll post them just in case):

Windows XP Home Edition (Service Pack 2)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+
2048MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c

I have all expansions up to OFB. My graphics card is a GeForce 8600 GTS with the latest drivers installed (ForceWare 169.21). Here are my settings:

Anisotropic filtering - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Gamma correction - On
Antialiasing - Mode - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Setting - Application-controlled
Antialiasing - Transparency - Multisampling
Conformant texture clamp - Use hardware
Error reporting - Off
Extension limit - Off
Force mipmaps - None
Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration - Single display performance mode
Stereo - Display mode - Use vertical interlace monitor
Texture filtering - Anisotropic sample optimization - Off
Texture filtering - Negative LOD bias - Allow
Texture filtering - Quality - Quality
Texture filtering - Trilinear optimization - Off
Threaded optimization - Auto
Triple buffering - Off
Vertical sync - Use the 3D application setting