That explains why one of my sims has a 'met myself' memory then. Off to get rid of the damn handheld thing immediately.

I've fiddled about with the desk top settings and hopefully that'll sort it. Cheers

Over the past few days Ive started experienceing a weird (and difficult to explain) problem with the graphics in my game. Every now and again the faces of my little simmies suddenly go multi coloured. Getting them to use a mirror to change appearance seems to fix it
but its also started to happen to npcs that are on the lot and there's nothing I can do about this. Whilst playing last night the walls of my sims house suddenly became patchy and multi-coloured as well. It looks as if the colours have bled into one another. Strangely, I couldn't paint over it or remove the existing paint/wallpaper. Only exiting and re-entering the lot made the walls return to normal. A little later however all of the paintings made by my sims changed to show red and yellow blocks blending into one another instead of whatever it was the sims had painted. It's becoming quite irritating I can tell you!

Any idea what's going on?  I installed a new graphics card (GEForce 6800 GT) about a month ago but haven't had any problems until now.

One thing Ive never understood is why the sim who catches their love cheating is the one who has to apologise!

I'm quite liking the furious state though. I witnessed a hilarious (and quite inexplicable) series of violent fights between a virile young man and an elderly muslim lady that they chose to have whilst welcoming another sim family to the neighbourhood. The family moved out again shortly afterwards. 

I like to download lots with basements, split-levels, spiral staircases and all the other stuff that I am too incompetent (and lazy) to do myself. And I vote unfurnished. I have never downloaded a furnished/decorated lot that I haven't immeadiately altered.

I keep forgetting that I no longer have that hack installed. Also would love to be able to use easy break up again. Don Lothario's getting restless.

The only hacks that are apparently still in my downloads folder are the aforementioned espresso max all needs thing (and I got that one from downloading a lot from the exchange waaaay back before hacked objects warnings were in use) and the annoying new screen which informs me of all the modified content currently in my game says  I have a couple of 'extra' meals from someplace. Any of the admittedly wonderful Pescado hacks I had have been removed and are currently sitting in a folder far far away from my downloads folder until such a time as they can be used safely again.

I've come across a couple of weird things (mostly already mentioned).

1. Any sim that attempts to purchase love potions off the gypsy woman will subsequently disappear from the lot a couple of seconds after currency changes hands. It appears to be some sort of temporary deletion thing as saving and reloading the lot means the sim comes back, but without the potion and without the simoleans they've shelled out. And I definitely don't have any of the hacks mentioned in an earlier post in relation to this same problem as problems with CAS when I first installed NL led to me spending the whole of saturday removing all my game hacks from my downloads folder. I believe my espresso machine is still hacked but I can't seem to find the bloody file responsible. Content manager and hack scanner don't pick it up.

2. If I assign a car to a particular sim a blank tip/info box appears in the top right hand corner of the screen with a picture of the new owner in it and nowt else. Also, if a teen attempts to use the car to go downtown a blank message box appears in the middle of the screen with the options 'yes', 'no' and 'cancel' in it. So far I've only clicked yes but I have no idea what I'm agreeing to.

3. Ditto with the child/teen visitor problem. Also, what is it with visitor sims ringing the doorbell after midnight, dragging your sim out of bed, making you greet them and THEN noticing the time and buggering off? Roses on the doorstep doesn't make up for it I'm afraid.