DigitalSympathies
5th Jul 2012, 2:35 AM
Hi. I share my game with a couple of people, we each have our separate neighbourhoods on the same computer. Can I Run This put our computer as far to the right ("fast!") as it can go. We're on an nVidia GeForce GTS 450 Limited graphics card. This is NOT a graphics issue from my own experience and research, as this only started to happen in this game after we installed the lots.
Changing settings doesn't work, and I can't see this problem covered anywhere after a while of Googling . . . sigh. All EP's/SP's including Store and Holiday Packs, Windows 7, and this persists on the many computers I've booted this game off of. I have all of the latest drivers as I just updated last week from the prompt that nVidia gave me.
Long story short, an (ex-)employee installed a shittonne of non-scanned lots from T$R and now everything randomly flashes pink. It's not limited to CC but covers both Maxis and CC objects. Mirrors render the scene correctly, but in non-mirrored view, they're . . . this.
I think it may be a hack that snuck in, but I've just wrapped up many hours picking through the downloads folder with clean installer (like just after this started to happen) and I don't see anything that perks my ears up. Another theory is a hack conflict. HCDU can't scan this folder as 1) it freezes, and 2) I'm using AnyGameStarter and it doesn't have an option to set the destination point, sadly enough.
Figure one. The apartment building built fine, but when I load it up, this happens.
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg228/scaled.php?server=228&filename=snapshot3cbc0a3ddcc0406.jpg&res=landing
Figure two. The sims (including their portraits) were pink, but if I drag a mirror on over, you can see them just fine.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8397/snapshotfca0b99afca1f10.jpg
Figure three. A new, empty neighbourhood, and a reasonably small-sized lot (I've noticed this happening on bigger lots more frequently, so I decided to load up a smaller one) and the entire thing goes pink.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4192/snapshot0000004b1ca1f41.jpg
Figure four. The tree displays fine without a light shining on it, but when I go to night view and shine a light near it, it starts flashing pink
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3121/snapshot000000589d00926.jpg
Not pictured, but I've also noticed:
- Flashing pink puddles when it rains. (Not all, just some.)
- Flashing pink sims, but when you force error on them, they return to normal.
- Flashing pink sims which cannot be force error'd back to normal.
- When you move said brand-new, never-been-used sims into a NEW lot, they return to normal.
- The larger the lot, the more likely this is to happen.
- When I place certain items, such as a bed whose frame used to flash blue (but I finally got the textures for), its bedding now flashes pink.
- In the catalogue, when I Ctrl + Click to refresh a thumbnail on a pink lot, all of them will turn into their pink counterparts when clicked, except for the ones which (CC or Maxis, it's a mix), for some odd reason, are exempt.
- Pools and mirrors, which I try to avoid in my game to keep the framerates high, have ZERO effect on the framerate.
- The temperature of my computer doesn't change anything, nor does disabling Avira or anything else. I only run the game on windowed mode, and every other AnyGame that I have runs just fine. I haven't done anything to corrupt my neighbourhood (and have taken precautions against it), and this is a game-universal problem that effects all 'hoods.
Help? :|
Changing settings doesn't work, and I can't see this problem covered anywhere after a while of Googling . . . sigh. All EP's/SP's including Store and Holiday Packs, Windows 7, and this persists on the many computers I've booted this game off of. I have all of the latest drivers as I just updated last week from the prompt that nVidia gave me.
Long story short, an (ex-)employee installed a shittonne of non-scanned lots from T$R and now everything randomly flashes pink. It's not limited to CC but covers both Maxis and CC objects. Mirrors render the scene correctly, but in non-mirrored view, they're . . . this.
I think it may be a hack that snuck in, but I've just wrapped up many hours picking through the downloads folder with clean installer (like just after this started to happen) and I don't see anything that perks my ears up. Another theory is a hack conflict. HCDU can't scan this folder as 1) it freezes, and 2) I'm using AnyGameStarter and it doesn't have an option to set the destination point, sadly enough.
Figure one. The apartment building built fine, but when I load it up, this happens.
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg228/scaled.php?server=228&filename=snapshot3cbc0a3ddcc0406.jpg&res=landing
Figure two. The sims (including their portraits) were pink, but if I drag a mirror on over, you can see them just fine.
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/8397/snapshotfca0b99afca1f10.jpg
Figure three. A new, empty neighbourhood, and a reasonably small-sized lot (I've noticed this happening on bigger lots more frequently, so I decided to load up a smaller one) and the entire thing goes pink.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/4192/snapshot0000004b1ca1f41.jpg
Figure four. The tree displays fine without a light shining on it, but when I go to night view and shine a light near it, it starts flashing pink
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3121/snapshot000000589d00926.jpg
Not pictured, but I've also noticed:
- Flashing pink puddles when it rains. (Not all, just some.)
- Flashing pink sims, but when you force error on them, they return to normal.
- Flashing pink sims which cannot be force error'd back to normal.
- When you move said brand-new, never-been-used sims into a NEW lot, they return to normal.
- The larger the lot, the more likely this is to happen.
- When I place certain items, such as a bed whose frame used to flash blue (but I finally got the textures for), its bedding now flashes pink.
- In the catalogue, when I Ctrl + Click to refresh a thumbnail on a pink lot, all of them will turn into their pink counterparts when clicked, except for the ones which (CC or Maxis, it's a mix), for some odd reason, are exempt.
- Pools and mirrors, which I try to avoid in my game to keep the framerates high, have ZERO effect on the framerate.
- The temperature of my computer doesn't change anything, nor does disabling Avira or anything else. I only run the game on windowed mode, and every other AnyGame that I have runs just fine. I haven't done anything to corrupt my neighbourhood (and have taken precautions against it), and this is a game-universal problem that effects all 'hoods.
Help? :|