That's pretty much how my games looked liked when my video card was dying a few years back.

As far as I know, destroying "options.ini" in My Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3 should be enough to reset the settings.

Select your sim and then just click on a mirror and choose change appearance. From this screen you can save your sim in .sim format.

I had the same problem when I deleted wrong cache files. I fixed it by using the launcher to uninstall Riverview and then I just installed it again.

EA obviously should've made a better default thumbnail than that to avoid confusion.

This seems to be a "feature" that just sometimes happens. It seems to fix itself after some time.

To be fair that's pretty much the only way they could do it. Simulating every sim in the neighborhood would most likely make your computer explode.

I have the exact same problem. My game crashes to desktop always when the game clock hits 01:00.

I guess there's no such thing as too much Goopy. Long live Goopy.

The Library folder holds the households you've made. These are the households you can see in the bottom right corner of the "edit neighborhood"-screen. It probably also holds custom lots you've saved too but I'm not 100% certain about that.

I'm not sure about the patterns but I think they're in "userPresets.package"-file in My Docs.

EDIT: Just checked it, custom lots are in the Library folder too and the patterns are stored in "userPresets.package".

About this electrocution matter. I had a set of stereos break down and my sim with max handiness tried to fix them. He got electrocuted but didn't die, so I tried to make him fix them again and this time he got electrocuted fatally. Looks like even max handiness may not save your sims from frying to death.

So don't bother capitalizing your I's then. Maybe you should replace them with Ö's too. Ö think that would be, like, really cool.

This probably refers to custom content you can download from other users.

The only argument I have that the leaked version is a beta is that the Finnish translation isn't fully complete, although this being EA it doesn't necessarily mean anything. I just found it weird that Sunset Valley is Sunset Valley even in Finnish even though in Sims 2 all the neighborhood names were translated. Also some of the street names are in Finnish while others are in English. Also all the townies and pre-made families have "foreign" names while in Sims 2 they were all... err... "Finnished". But as I said this doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Hmm, sounds worse than I thought although SecuROM didn't come as a surprise. Still I'm downloading it because I'm probably crazy or a masochist or both.

A part of me wants to download these... things... so I could do just that. Burn them in the cleansing fire!

Giraffe? That's a skin disease!

It would be weirder if all the objects actually worked correctly.

I also get the clown car taxis. Never had babies or childrens in the group though.

I could do the Finnish translations.

There's this annoying little thing with radio stations in Finnish where two radio stations are separate from others because of an extra space.



It's not a big issue but I would be thankful if it would be fixed.

The only weird thing I've encountered after patching is that I can no longer skip the intro screen.

The game sure seems to be at least somewhat slower than before although it has been some time since I played. Just reinstalled the game and all the EPs (no Stuff Packs and only 81 MB of CC). Empty lots load fast but occupied lots take longer to load and traveling to community lots takes a long time to load too.

Sounds like that file "devenum.dll" has exploded. You could try searching for "devenum.dll" on Google and copy it to your system32 folder. Don't know if it will help but it can't hurt.

That thing looks contagious.