anothereyjana
17th Feb 2011, 05:06 AM
I've been having a lot of problems with graphics glitches over the last week or so, and have had at least one instance where the entire game has crashed. I've had sims (in multiple households, in multiple hoods, so I don't think that it's just corruption) showing up completely black, or missing parts (usually faces), and I've had the landscape texture of the lot (both the grass outside, and sometimes even the floors inside as well) show up completely black, or have had the grass on the lot (and/or sometimes the hood grass outside of the lot) go completely black or be randomly replaced by random textures (such as the "hair field" pictured below)
http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af35/SimulatedSpector/sim%20bloopers/snapshot_7a671750_5a672260.jpg
There are also instances where, from the neighborhood view, everything but the lots (and sometimes a bit of hood deco) are completely black. Even when things aren't that drastic, there are still moments in lots where things just don't look quite right.
It's a bit hard to describe, but there is often what looks like a very thin line of white or yellow "outline" around objects--it's not very noticeable at first (unless you know what you're looking at/for, and then it's all you can see, like me), unless you zoom in a bit, and is a bit more noticeable on certain objects than on others. Also, the game seems to randomly (but briefly) freeze or slow at times.
I've tried getting rid of my CC to isolate the problem, as well as checking out/temporarily removing things like downloaded terrains to see if that was the problem, but it's still there. My game is also patched, and, due to an earlier incident concerning them, I've taken to habitually deleting my CACHE files (and thumbnails folder) after every play session.
I use Norton, and I did renew it recently, but that was back in Nov. or Dec., so it's unlikely that that's the problem, and it has also been several months since I last installed any new SPs or EPs, and I know that I have more than enough room left on my comp. I haven't done anything new to my comp. recently, and I've never had any glitches like this before. Admittedly, my comp. does do automatic updates without my consent from time to time, so one of those may be at fault, but I'm not sure of where to begin if it turns out that's the case.
I will admit that I haven't tried removing/renaming the user files, but that's simply because the last time I tried it, I ended up with a massive blue screen of death from hell which nearly flat-out killed my comp and took hours for it to recover from, and I don't want to risk nearly killing it again (I don't know if it did that simply because it had gotten infected with SecuROM and wasn't acting quite like it was supposed to, or if it was just another case of "because it's fucking Windows Vista, but either way, I just don't want to risk it).
Here's the specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic (6.0, Build 6002)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 @2.16GHz (2CPUs),~2.2GHz
Memory: 1978MB RAM
Page File: 1731MB used, 2468MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
I hope this was enough to help.
http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af35/SimulatedSpector/sim%20bloopers/snapshot_7a671750_5a672260.jpg
There are also instances where, from the neighborhood view, everything but the lots (and sometimes a bit of hood deco) are completely black. Even when things aren't that drastic, there are still moments in lots where things just don't look quite right.
It's a bit hard to describe, but there is often what looks like a very thin line of white or yellow "outline" around objects--it's not very noticeable at first (unless you know what you're looking at/for, and then it's all you can see, like me), unless you zoom in a bit, and is a bit more noticeable on certain objects than on others. Also, the game seems to randomly (but briefly) freeze or slow at times.
I've tried getting rid of my CC to isolate the problem, as well as checking out/temporarily removing things like downloaded terrains to see if that was the problem, but it's still there. My game is also patched, and, due to an earlier incident concerning them, I've taken to habitually deleting my CACHE files (and thumbnails folder) after every play session.
I use Norton, and I did renew it recently, but that was back in Nov. or Dec., so it's unlikely that that's the problem, and it has also been several months since I last installed any new SPs or EPs, and I know that I have more than enough room left on my comp. I haven't done anything new to my comp. recently, and I've never had any glitches like this before. Admittedly, my comp. does do automatic updates without my consent from time to time, so one of those may be at fault, but I'm not sure of where to begin if it turns out that's the case.
I will admit that I haven't tried removing/renaming the user files, but that's simply because the last time I tried it, I ended up with a massive blue screen of death from hell which nearly flat-out killed my comp and took hours for it to recover from, and I don't want to risk nearly killing it again (I don't know if it did that simply because it had gotten infected with SecuROM and wasn't acting quite like it was supposed to, or if it was just another case of "because it's fucking Windows Vista, but either way, I just don't want to risk it).
Here's the specs:
OS: Windows Vista Home Basic (6.0, Build 6002)
System Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
System Model: Compaq Presario CQ60 Notebook PC
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual CPU T3400 @2.16GHz (2CPUs),~2.2GHz
Memory: 1978MB RAM
Page File: 1731MB used, 2468MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
I hope this was enough to help.