I bought an Alienware laptop for The Sims 2 and couldn't install the last ep for some reason. I got help thru tech support and downloaded the UC from Origin. I now am able to play it (not in compatibility mode) and the game glitches a lot. Meaning when I move the mouse around, scroll up and down, it glitches. When I'm in a lot and want to delete things from a house, the house disappears and appears again. I just talked to EA support and tried running it in compatibility mode and it still did the same thing. Did this happen to anyone? How did you fix it? This is really annoying and it makes me not want to play.

Try turning shadows to medium or off.

Sounds like you need to change your smooth edges option - it shouldn't matter what you change it to, just something other than what it's at now.

Shadows are at a medium. I'll try smoothing the edges less. I'll get back to you.

Hi, I don't have that option available. I can't select it, it's grayed out. I don't know why.

That probably means your lap top is using a graphic chip which isn't strong enough to allow you to turn on smooth edges. Or it's a very new chip and needs other things adjusted. Sims 2 prefers a proper graphics card.
Try going over to Leefish and asking about Graphic Rules.

I am there now and I did what was told. Now my game doesn't want to load.

Have you posted and asked for help? There are some very good people over there who should be able to help.

On Leefish?

This can also help as well with compatibility issues.

http://www.simsnetwork.com/simpedia...patibility-with

Yes, celebkiriedhel might be able to help. Also have you gone over the Win8 thread on here?

Are you getting the direct x 9 error and if so you will need to delete the extra spaces the program put in when it added you card to the list.

This is how mine looked after I ran that program and I had to take out the 2 extra spaces at the end of 660 and the " to make it work.

Before card 0x11c0 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 " it needs to look like this after card 0x11c0 "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660"

No I have not as I haven't seen it.

How do I check this? I'm getting no error from there. I'm trying to smooth out my edges but it's grayed out and I did everything on Leefish and it still doesn't let me do it.

Does this problem occur in both windowed and fullscreen mode, or only fullscreen?

It might also be worth trying to force borderless windowed. This isn't supported by the game directly but it's the only way I got around some of the graphical issues in TS3. http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Sims_2

Also, I don't know that it would cause graphics issues, but did you completely uninstall before installing UC?

The game loads full screen. I have done all of the things that were on Leefish and I still can't get the smooth edges to work for me. Yes, I uninstalled UC and installed it again. Also I uninstalled the stuff and expansion packs before I installed UC.

Ok I got it to work (YAY!!!!!!!!!). The edges should be on the more side of smooth or all the way on less?