Outdated yellow pee? InSim? I remember Reading an old verson of InSimenator causing dogs to pee microwaves.

The stereo is borked. Numenor released a fix for it on MTS2 ages ago. Its just supposed to glow blue.

I have one too.

Can you take a pic? I'm not sure what you mean.

I still have the mac copy of the game. I could give it a go later.

Thanks Havelock.

I haven't seen that, I only touched the recliner. Do you have the patch for OFB? The only time I heard of that happening was when OFB wasn't patched.

What is your problem? Yes, that isn't exactly an Nvidia 9800GTX, but it should handle the game perfectly fine. I had an even lower end card and my game ran very smoothly, just not with all the settings on high. 

EmilyTwitch, try getting the newest drivers from intel. Windows update doesn't usually have the latest video drivers. This should be what you need.

Update 4 available. Now fixes the flickering shadows of the Cool Shades and the Eclectic and Enigmatic Energizer.

Thanks Havelock. Can I include that in the main file? I've also fixed the Social Glasses aspiration reward. The ground shadow was flickering as well.

What is the largest you can make an apartment, four separate apartments?

Okay, I've gotten AL, and I'm checking through the new objects. I've found two so far. A new sculpture (fixed), and the new closets. However it seems MilkShape doesn't exactly want to let me import them right now, so I need to beat it into submission. I've also got the basegame pinball  machines fixed.

They're all package files, which is how the game's music is.  As for using SimPE, I should have said to extract them. You just export the songs and you'll end up with regular mp3 files.
Radio music is in MP3 format.

Download

For Nightlife, Pets, and Apartment Life EA included additional music for various other localizations. If you have any of these expansion packs, you already have the extra music in your games data files, it just isn't using them. Replacing the main music files with these will add the extra songs to your game. Nightlife has more Housemix, Pets and Apartment Life have more Pop.

To install these, replace the EAxis files with these in the following locations. If you don't have one of the expansions you can extract the MP3s with SimPE. Backup your files if you want.


Place Nightlife Housemix.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Nightlife/TSData/Res/Sound

Place Pets pop.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Pets/TSData/Res/Sound

Place Apartment Life pop.package in...
C:/Program Files/EA Games/The Sims 2 Apartment Life/TSData/Res/Sound

I don't think I know how to do that. I could blank out the images, but then they would still be floating around there and slowing down the game. JFade made a hack to stop the zone glow from Freetime. Maybe when he gets his stuff updated he will also make one for the witches.

These two hacks will completely disable the good and evil witch skin tone overlays, so the look just like normal sims. The sim's original skin tone will show as if the were a neutral witch, and they will keep their sparkles if they are evil/good enough. There are two files, one for good witches and one for bad witches, so you can decide if you want to change both of them or not. I used a different technique from HystericalParoxysm, mine are slightly smaller.

Please note that this may not take effect immediately on loading the lot, if you Sim still has the overlay on their face, take them to a mirror. Apply some face paint, then remove it. Save. Their face should be normal then.

If you could send me the file, it would be an easy fix. 

BTW, right now I'm not going to get Apartment Life until I can update my downloads folder, so I won't be able to check and see what's broken in it. Sorry.

Hey. I managed to fix my problem by getting different drivers, so it's good now. Thanks for the help.

Thanks Toad in the Hole. That helped, but it just takes longer for the texture to start getting blurry. I don't have anti-aliasing on Pescado, so that's not the cause of it.

First of I should mention that my graphics card is Nvidia 8600GT with 256MB of memory. I know there are a lot of issues with TS2 and Nvidia cards, so that could be what's causing it. When I first load a lot the textures look sharp and crisp, and everything looks all nice. after playing awhile though the textures will start to blur and it looks all muddy. I don't know what started this, but it looks really ugly. The settings are all on high, except smooth edges, which is off.  I'm not playing with a lot of custom content, or on a very large lot either. Has anyone else had this happen to them? It's kind of annoying, because I swear I don't remember this happening before with this card,  and it should be more than powerful enough for TS2.

Thanks Lord Darcy.  I've added your fixes into the file and fixed what you've pointed out.

It should be fine in downloads.

I'm not sure what you mean. I already fixed the mixed up ground shadow, and it shows the correct shadows when placed against the wall. What did I miss?

Thanks Havelock, I've updated the download with your fixes included. 

Yep, that's what I've been doing. It seems to fix it when all that's borked is the group names. A little bit more work needs to be done when the UV map is messed up.

For some unknown reason, a lot of the new objects EAxis is releasing in expansions and stuff packs have messed up shadows. Usually the ground shadow is switched with a wall shadow, causing the wall shadow to always show up, even when it's not placed next to a wall. This looks horrible in game and needed to be fixed, so I'm working on this now. I haven't gotten all of the shadows yet, so if you know one that's broken then it would be really helpful to tell me which object it is so I can fix it. I have not heard anyone complain about this, so I'm guessing it will get as many downloads as my floating pancake fix.



Download Update 5

What has been fixed...
 The Sims 2
  Expensive Stereo
  Cowboy's Caboose Chair
  "Outdoor Ergo" Ergonomic Chair by Gudfoer-Ebadi Furnishings
  Sweet Tooth Survior Pinball
  "Election Day" Retro Space-Age Action Pinball
  The Eclectic and Enigmatic Energizer
  Cool Shades
 
 Ikea Stuff
  EKTORP Two Seat Sofa
 Teen Style Stuff
  Fit For Royalty by It Creations
  The Better Bookshelf by It Creations
  You're So Vanity by It Creations
  Fine Finish Desk by It Creations
  Higher Education by Darkness
  Patchwork Desk by Darkness
  Pompadour Dresser by Fun in the Sun
  Curves and Swerves End Table by Fun in the Sun
  Swervy Curvy Desk by Fun in the Sun
  The Television Television
 Glamour Life Stuff
  Affluent Armoire by Well Bred and Co.
 Apartment Life
  Globulous Wonder by Anne Nuit
 FreeTime
  Ultra Sporty Trophy Display
 Bon Voyage
  Instant Giant
  Foreign Flavor Dresser
  GrassCo Folding Chair
 Seasons
  Books First for Learning: A Bookshelf for Education
 Pets
  Atomic Clothing Manager by Streamlined Industries
  Andromeda Far Out Dresser
  Andromeda Lil'Astronaut Desk
  Ring-O-Posies Commercial Planter
  Junior Cosmonauts Bedside Table
  Formicium Counter by Astro-Tops Design
  Atom Bench by Nucular Novelties
  Aqueduct of the Future!
 Open for Business
  The Java de Pwi Barstool
  Soldier's Quarter Recliner

There are a lot more broken meshes, so I don't know how long it will take before this is completely done. I do know that I'll probably have to update this every single time they release a new EP or SP.
Update 1: Moar objects fixed by Windkeeper and Havelock.
Update 2: Fixed more objects and added in Lord Darcy's fix.
Update 3: Fixed the base game pinball machines, and a sculpture from Apartment Life.
Update 4: Fixed the Cool Shades and the Eclectic and Enigmatic Energizer.
Update 5: Added Ultra Sporty Trophy Display.