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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 31, 18:20:22
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Something has to be scoring lower on the laptop for a reason. Sims 2 gave me an A+ with this computer, while Sims 3 was scored a little lower. Edit: And here's that balding sim thing I was talking about. Tried forcing anti-aliasing, and while I got beautiful graphics otherwise, I still got these goddamn balding sims, so I had to turn it back to application-controlled.  After having such beautiful graphics on Sims 2, the jagged edges are killing me. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 31, 17:40:45
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Oops, yes, I was talking about third-party meshes in that case. I don't understand the laziness in this game concerning the lack of EA-manufactured pregnant bellies and the materializing into cars and whatnot instead of just getting in. I have to admit that I miss the car interactions (like woohooing) from Sims 2. Talk about cutting corners!
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 31, 16:46:08
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My card is an HD 2400, and no, I've had no issues at all, and I do have all settings on high. I was a little concerned when I read on here that some peoples' cards/computers were overheating, and mine is one of those little slender Dells with not much space inside (Inspiron 530S,) and nothing impressive in the way of fans, but I've run the game for hours with no problems at all.
One thing might be worth noting though--or might be irrelevant, but I'll mention it anyway. I upgraded my drivers a few months ago and immediately started experiencing problems with Sims 2. I downgraded back to the 8.530 drivers, but not before reading some complaints that the new 9.x drivers seemed to be causing some peoples' video cards to run much hotter than they had before upgrading. I have no idea if that was an issue that was fixed with subsequent drivers, or if it was an issue that was imaginary in the first place, but I'm still using the 8.530 driver and having no graphical issues with either game, and no overheating. That's what's odd for me -- no overheating (have a cooling kit and many fans inside this beast), so that's not an issue. I have a HD 3200, so I should also be able to set edge smoothing to high without getting almost bald sims. I do have the 9.5s that came out earlier this month, and I've had to play "Find A Good Driver" before when I still had a Nvidia and was getting the wonderful blue screen of Sims 2 death, so maybe I have to play that game again. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 30, 19:59:41
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Before you mounted it using Daemon Tools and tried installing it, did you look to see if your previous installation (or almost-an-installation, as it were) left behind anything in the Program Files on your C drive (or whatever letter drive you tried installing it to), in your My Documents Folder, or even in the Windows registry? The Sims games tend to do that and won't install properly if there's something left behind for the installation to squabble over.
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 30, 19:34:07
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Normally I lurk a lot, read a lot, and try not to post a lot, as english is my secondary language, and I am scared of the grammar police. But, I have a question and I am hankering for an answer, so here goes:
Do anyone know what fertilization of the plants you can grow actually do? As I understand it, quality is based on what you plant, (The seed's quality +1 = the plant's quality) and thus fertilization with rare fish or plants, means nothing. So I am wondering if anyone have found a secret about it that I am missing.
*Runs for cover again.*
I haven't harvested much as of yet, but I did notice that using anchovies as fertilizer for my apple trees gave me "very nice quality" apples. Still trying to figure out what fertilizer with what plant gives you, uh, what in return. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Technical problems with THE HORROR: downloading, installing, and running it
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on: 2009 May 30, 18:57:27
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Out of curiosity, those playing the game with ATI Radeon HD cards, are you able to turn every graphical option to the highest? I can turn up every option except for edge smoothing. I'm getting smooth lines, obviously, but it's also giving me sims with no hair...or bald tops, in any case. Just curious, because Sims 2 was able to handle all of the options turned up, and I never got any weird effects to go with it.
It also seems that those of us with HD audio cards are having sound issues, somewhat.
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
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on: 2009 May 30, 18:45:02
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I know plenty of ESLs on other forums, and you wouldn't know they are foreign if they didn't say so. I remember an Argentian friend talking about how difficult it is to decipher a post full of "ur, 4 shurs, and !!!!!111!!!" when English isn't his mother tongue. Of course, those of us who were sick of the 12s with whom we were being bombarded on a daily basis (tl;dr: this was because another friend ran a website that was dedicated to an animated show, but the forum was supposed to be strictly 18+) told him that we were sincerely grateful for the effort that he and the other foreign fans put into making their posts legible, and we wished that our own American youth could be bothered to do so.
It's sad, really. I noticed that my son's teachers don't bother to correct his spelling or grammar on most of his assignments because it's "the substance that matters" to them. Apparently, AOLspeak is changing the way papers are graded. Why in the hell has it become commonplace?
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
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on: 2009 May 30, 17:40:49
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Dude, you can't even spell your username. Insane, possibly. Grammar anything, I think not. Ah, that. My hands type slower than my mind can think, sometimes, so I end up looking stupid, and such was the case when I made this account years ago. I didn't make another account to fix the mistake because that's generally a big no-no and seen as trolling on other sites, so I decided to just stick with it and let people point and laugh. Of course, I hang out on 4chan regularly, so perhaps the stupidity is rubbing onto me somewhat. Uh oh. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: Important notice from the GRAMMAR POLICE. Plz read. This means you.
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on: 2009 May 29, 19:44:09
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Ah, this is why even though I've been in the Simming communities since the dawning of Sim time, I rarely post unless there's something important to say (or something random, as this shit-thread obviously dictates) because who wants to look like a tard on the internets? Only a...well, tard.
One should always associate one's self with a forum's etiquette before becoming a full-fledged member in order to look a little less like a speshul snowflake. It's also known as LURK MOAR as has been pointed out, time and time again!
(I used to be an administrator on several forums and am an insane Grammar Nazi according to my speshul husband.)
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 25, 02:15:27
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Can you recolor everything with the color wheel? Not just in CAS but in actual playing? (I'm sure thats stupid, but I'm wondering about the logistics of how it works) Any chance of a screen shot or something?
Everything but stairs and fences. Check out YouTube -- it has some videos showing this off. One you may enjoy is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_28g9uProQcWhen checking out Sims 3 videos on YouTube or Google Video, be sure to sort by date -- older ones will usually have been removed for "copyright reasons". I think the mood candle can't be recolored either. At least I can't get it to. I think there are a couple of other small things, too. And I see that the game crashing after enabling the testing cheats is still a staple. Trying to age my toddler (because the damn cake doesn't want to age him) resulted in a crash to desktop. Sadly, my sim had just had the baby girl she wanted, so now I get to go through labor all over again. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 24, 16:01:16
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Hm, changing diapers is still not working correctly, it seems. Kid soiled his diaper, so I tried to have her remove it to boost his hygiene back up, but no go. Still not changing, and apparently, I can't give the little bastard a bath either. Had to max motives so she could stop being disgusted by the stench. Well, even if I hadn't picked the insane and neurotic traits, he'd definitely have them after all of this since he's been left to swim in his own filth.
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 24, 14:53:20
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Ah, about that diaper changing ordeal, I should have mentioned that the bladder level was all the way down. It's been a while since any couple of mine in Sims 2 had a toddler, but I swear that you could change their diaper once the level was all the way down?  Geez, at the very least, if you have to wait until they're a stinking mess, the game could try letting me know that I can't do that option (like graying it out, since it seems to like doing that with everything else) instead of having her throw her child into the air again and again without success. Or brain damage. Did anyone had the pop up message appear about the repoman coming for not paying your bills, and then inspite of being able to pay your bills BEFORE the guys comes, he still shows up and takes your stuff? Well, actually what I had happen to me was I'd paid my bills two days before the bastard came to my house and took my stereo. Obviously, bills paid in full =/= repoman taking things. Unless he's a klepto or just an assclown. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 24, 03:57:07
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You know, I had really hoped that "enablellamas" would have given everyone llama heads or something similar.  In any case, new bug...or something to report. KagomeSim had her baby (which turned out to be a boy, and thus he was named Kouga and given the insane/neurotic traits for the hell of it), and when his bladder got low enough, I changed his diaper. And changed his diaper. And changed...you get the idea. She went through the motions sure enough, but the bladder level never filled. Instead I gave up and pottytrained his little ass instead of letting him become a stinking mess.  |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 23, 16:22:37
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I find it amusing that EA says that they've lost $9 million to piracy, and yet, they really didn't if this is truly the so-called "pre-final buggy version". Can't lose money when it was never intended for sale anyway, asshats.
And of course, they're going to use figures like this in any case because just imagine if the game hadn't been cracked, and people were forced to buy this shit in order to find out what it's really like. That's what they really wanted, was for suckers to purchase the game and then be stuck with it.
I'm sorry, EA. You're out 9 million imaginary dollars and maybe 180,000 suckers.
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 23, 16:03:14
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BUG!
Music isn't working in my game. Nothing is muted, but build/buy are silent. For a while, if I went from Live to Buy or Build, the TV in live mode would remain on complete with video and sound. Now it's back to doing its regular pause but all is quiet.
The radio doesn't produce any sound either.
Do you know what brand your sound card is? I found out that mine had certain problems with Flash videos and video games, so I had to update drivers (which is ALWAYS important) and find a certain registry fix for the problem. "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio". I was playing before and all sounds were working fine. I updated my graphics card and then this happened... I can't imagine the two would be related. I think it might just be a glitch. I had the stereo suddenly producing sounds a moment ago. When I have the Sim dance to the stereo it POOF! works. And why would buy mode suddenly have the TV my Sim was watching functioning throughout it? As for updating the SoundMAX driver, I'd love to. But I've never been able to. Ever! It always comes up with an error when I try to update it and going to device manager and doing "Update Driver" doesn't work. Could very well be a bug, but it's interesting that you said that yours is an HD audio sound card. Regardless of brand, they all seem to be a little wonky. Mine would work on and off on various things (internet, Winamp, Sims 2, etc.) until I found the registry fix. Might be worth some investigation on Google. Still could be a bug though. I've noticed that music sounds a little strange, and sometimes it takes a few minutes (real time) for you to hear anything. Unless it's this damn HD card acting up again. |
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TS3/TSM: The Pudding / The World Of Pudding / Re: THE HORROR: The REAL TS3 Scoop As It Unfolds
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on: 2009 May 23, 03:28:37
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BUG!
Music isn't working in my game. Nothing is muted, but build/buy are silent. For a while, if I went from Live to Buy or Build, the TV in live mode would remain on complete with video and sound. Now it's back to doing its regular pause but all is quiet.
The radio doesn't produce any sound either.
Do you know what brand your sound card is? I found out that mine had certain problems with Flash videos and video games, so I had to update drivers (which is ALWAYS important) and find a certain registry fix for the problem. |
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