curious...  I knew about the nVidia problems, And I also have an AMD.  My AMD chip is a 64 bit.  My nVidia card is a 5950.  I have 1 gig of ram and the nVidia carries another 256. 

One time, and once only, did I have a graphic's glich in the neighborhood screen.  It occured right after I installed a camera mod to see the entire neighborhood.  I restarted the game and the prolem has not happened again. 

I suppose rather soon though I'll need to think about upgrades...

It could be that the older AMD chips run hotter than the intel chips.  As pointed out overheating will mess up the graphic card's performance. 
Could it be that additional cooling is required?
You know I almost wish that I had the neon paper glich... 
I believe though that my graphic drivers are special ones from Alienware.com.  The one time I had a problem the drivers wouldn't install without a "helper" program of some kind.  Thank goodness for live chat help... (Moral of that story:  Don't let SO delete stuff on your machine just because they don't recoginze what it is...)

   I had the same problem only it was that hack...  hope you get it sorted out.

Sleepycat, do you have the alien preggers for both genders?  if so the extra animation package for female pregancies will cause the second plumbob in the birthing movies.

 

You are good!

look how nice your peach matches:



The set I wanted to match is one by Darter123 over at MTS2.  This is perfect.  (*snicker* Thank you! This is great!)

Haha... Actually I want to say that I really love the idea of doing recolors for these objects so that the hacks are just a tad more in the background.

sweet... can a beg you to make a pale peach color?  one of my favorite babysets is pale peach lace.
I downloaded the other colors so maybe the cream will work. 
 

This is a great idea.  Cream, I think is a color that would look good in many settings.  I might have to look closer at the package myself to see if doing a rusty holder is possible.   

the apartments are beautiful!...  Um, I'm thinking somehow I need to move up to that before jumping into a condo then a 2 story 6 bedroom house like I have now, lol.

sweet, simmie!

I feel compelled to redo the walls inside with some trashed wallpaper...  lol

skandelouslala, The wheels are from the Caravan Shope.  http://www.caravanshopsims2.com/EN/caravan.php

The slummy stuff is likely from MTS2...  I think I recoginze the outside rusted tin siding as being by KThompson. 
The thread I'm posting has lots of stuff, and it's scattered throughout the thread too.  Not everything is there though, as some folks have made trashed stuff later.  Wireless guy has a nice set of "second hand" worn wood recolors too. 

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=38304

What you want to do is read the thread for the rest of the stuff. 
Look up my postings if you want, as I have several posts that pull all the info together and list exact post numbers for things that are updated or go with this set. 

It was on of the first community sets at MTS2 and kind of took on a life of it's own. 

Skins, sims, and clothing for this set can be found here: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=39399
Search for stuff by Blink13y too, as he's still making sims for this on his own. 

8deadly sims (pay site) also has started making a set of this kind of stuff... 

Hehe... if you got lots of you slummy stuff over at MTS2 you'll note that I did a bunch of the updating for University...  Not to mention that I made some trashy stuff too.  So likely I'll have fun playing myself in that enviroment, LOL

what a great story!

Oh, what the heck...

You can put me there too...

The long way:
move your sims (which I hope you have in Saved Sims) to your desktop.
Place a few of the sims at a time back into the saved sims folder.
Load bodyshop, test sims...
eventually you will find the (hopefully small) batch of sims with the bad one in it.
Test that batch one by one.
delete bad sim...

If your sims are in both saved sims and downloads you might use Cleam Installer to sort your files.  Clean installer flags some sims as "People" or "Character" and others as, well, nothing.  So all files that are a string of 16 alpha-numeric with a blank type is a sim.  (names usually look like 6a180059-52c7145b.package).

Good luck.

Oh, 7 mins huh?  No I agree that's no fun. 

I keep Sims2 on two seprate profiles.  One is genetics only, with items in their own folders, right down to the eyes divided by color. For building I use all maxis stuff.  I try to use maxis genetics if I can, but popping in my blue eyes for a sim who needs custom eyes only takes a few seconds.  I suppose that having 2 profiles won't work in some OS.  Of course my desktop is cluttered with folders...
One key thing I like about bodyshop are that there are sliders for cheeks, lips, eyes, and jaw that are not inclued in CAS.  Plus you can blend archtypes with the sliders and in CAS you can't that I know of.

Does moving Saved Sims help with the load times for you? 


 

could Sim surgery be used?  Keep the sim files for NPC's the game generated and then alter the faces with simPE?
I don't know really.

I got Mark Valley done.
He's got custom eyes by exnem, Brows by Helaene (recolored to a lighter red by me) and lips by Louis Of SimCribbing. 

Here's a pic:


I'll upload him to my Yahoo Group.  Link in Siggy.   

edited to add:
And sandilou, I am a perfectionist.  I spent a year (really!) on my Vin Diesel sim.  A year... I'll do Sir Hopkins correctly or ... well, my stubborn streak will kick in and I'll do him correctly, lol.  Hopefully I can figure out what is not right and fix it, soon.  I feel better that I got Mark Valley though. 

thought I'd list some sims I found while taking a break with my struggles with Sir Hopkins...

John Travolta: Here

Leonardo DiCaprio:
Here

Sean Connery: Here

Will Smith: Here

Nicholas Cage: Here

Collin Farrell: Here

Jake Gyllenhaal:
Here

That is just a face mask, I'm afraid.

I am working on Mark Valley and Anthony Hopkins currently.
There's several Jared Leto's on the exchange (didn't really like any of them)  and I found one patrick swayze at MTS2 (he was okay).  If I can get Mark Valley and Sir Hopkins I think I'd rather try Sean Connery next.  Still, I can try doing Leto and Swayze too.

Um, hubba, hubba...  okay.  I'll work on him 

use them however you like.  If you need or are making new NPC's they would be cool for that too.  Would you like some more?  perhaps have a favorite I've not done?  (Mr. DiCaprio, anyone?)...

 
Yeah, he turned out okay, huh?
I've tried my hand at a few other fellows, but then got stuck with Vin Diesel... took me a bloody year off and on to get him right. 
I might go back now to making a few other movie stars now. 

Okay I'll be adding Orlando to my site in a few minutes. Actually he's up now.  You can get him at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dewshine_recolors_for_sims2/

Here's a preview pic:
The real Orlando Bloom:

And the sim Orlando Bloom:

Granted he needs that custom curled hair for men from MTS2...

hahaha...

I found my Oralndo Bloom... do you want him? 

 Do you have eyes you really like that you would want contacts made from?  I could make you some based on Exemn's free eyes... 
I downloaded some contacts off of MTS2 and deleted them all.  They Um, sucked.  Really, making contacts is easy! But making good eyes is not.  And if the eyes used suck so do the contacts.  I could contact Heleane and see if she'd allow contacts made from her "sparkling" eyes collection.  Just let me know, okay?  I can even make it so that they layer with other costume makeups...

    Gee do I have to be Kymba Gulfstream?  LOL