Tried that and unfortunately it didn't work. While in device manager I did notice that my coprocessor is missing a driver? I scanned online for one and searched my C drive but it couldn't find anything and the manufacturer and driver provider are "unknown". Could this have anything to do with the problem? I don't think so, but I don't know what the coproccessor does, it is listed under "other devices". Googling it leads me to other people looking for drivers for it, which makes me think it is nonessential.

Nope, no sound at all except occasional faint crackling if I plug my headphones in.

I think this is a DirectX thing? Everything is plugged in correctly, drivers are updated and the sound is as high as it can go. I installed both EPs yesterday (and the Town Life stuff pack) and the sound worked fine while I played with them for a few minutes. I booted up the computer today to play it with a friend and it just cut out during the loading screen and hasn't come back on since. Windows hasn't helped diagnose any problems because it seems to think everything is working fine, even though this is not the case (unless I have come down with selective deafness). I could just be missing something really obvious but I've tried everything I can think of and I think it's likely sims-related because of the timing.

ETA: Turns out my sound card just finally pooped out on me after 4 years of dutiful service and the timing happened to coincide with the installation. New one works fine.

Disabling those did the trick, thanks. 

I guess it's just a quirk of 7, then.

To kill two (or three) birds with one thread, I've been having another problem since installing 7 - every time I try to screengrab something running full-screen, like sims, I get a screenshot of the desktop, or anything that appeared on the screen as soon as I minimized the full-screen program (like if I had my documents maximized, I get a screenshot of that). I can't seem find a sims-specific answer to this problem.

That's much less sinister than I thought. Thanks for the info.

Okay, sounds simple enough. Thanks again! 

I got a new hard drive the other day, wiped and put windows 7 on it, then installed Sims. An extra EA Games folder (with nothing in it) keeps appearing in my documents, in addition to the normal one. Whenever I delete it, it comes back. The game has been running fine, I just thought this was weird because I searched around and no one else seems to have had this happen with 7.

Also, I installed OFB, but none of the lots that usually come with it (the coffee shop, for example) aren't showing up in my bin.

Can you send ghost babies back to the underworld via the tombstone in their inventory? I haven't had any ghost babies yet, nor do I want them, so I wouldn't know.

It looks more like he wants to befriend it. ^

I had a double death outside the theater today.



After which, Grim sat down and read "Baby Incoming: Preparing with Vigilance". Trying to tell us something, dude?

My Klepto sim stole a car.
The funny part was that the game advised sending it back via mailbox.

A rubber room in an asylum run by grammar cats.

I must wonder how one explains that to the insurance company.

CAST, the more realistic conversation options (such as "worry about money" and "ask to take out trash"), and the pretty scenery. I also love the fact that you can walk right off your lot and go to the grocery store/beach/what have you.

Or Thomas Beatie.

Wasn't it said by Pescado that sims have no predetermined gender preference in TS3?

Oh, be still my heart. That is one fine-looking pudding.

Why would a lampshade be anemic? Anemia is a decrease in the normal number of blood cells. Lampshades are made of fabric.

I had a death at a campaign party, which was pretty cool.







I like how sims that knew the person stretch their arms out as if to implore Grim when the sim begs for their life back. More realistic than in TS2, where they just stood around during the death or sniffled a little.



Grim stuck around to partyboy the hostess a little, causing her Coward-traited husband to pass out.



Then he went into the bedroom and disappeared in a puff of smoke. I was disappointed, I wanted to try to woo him. Perhaps next time.

Father:


Son:


I think he just cloned himself when I wasn't looking.
However, the son also slightly resembles the redheaded guy from Ratatouille.

This whole water reflecting light thing is so awesome.

Was there a smoking mod for TS2?

I would seriously buy that game just for the huge-ass waterfall. My biggest pet peeve with TS2 was the whole "background? wut background? we hav big blue emptiness 4 ur viewing pleasure" thing.

What does 'wanton' translate to? Flirty?

So Death is male in TS3?