Alright, second time typing is the charm.

Long story short, I got a new laptop and transferred the back up from my old computer into the new one, downloaded the UC (which was what I was using previously) installed the back up and downloads folder. Entered my custom hood and noticed 2 of the 3 portraits of a family were empty, and the female adult's hair/existence was stretched across the screen. Portraits were fixed using batbox, but it's a temporary solution. The stretched pixels I fix by using the ingame video capture and swirling the camera around, surprisingly effective. I decided I wanted to play with some of Maxis' creation instead of messing about in my hood and so plopped the Newsons down in Riverblossom Hills. The glitches got worse and I managed to snag just a few photos of the common offences. I assume it might have something to do with the files I transferred, but honestly my custom hood was healthy for all that I could see.



Any help would be appreciated.

Looks like a graphics issue to me. Does your laptop have dual graphics chips?

First process of elimination I would do would be to drag the Documents\ EA Games\ The Sims 2 folder to the desktop, and run the game without it. Do you still get the same problem?

Same, looks like a graphics card issue, not game corruption. You need to check that the game is using your graphic card not a chip and you probably need the graphic rules. Google that +leefish. My internet is going horrible slow otherwise I would post a link.

Thank you both for the replies.

It would be pretty reasonable to expect its a graphic issue, it is not a high end laptop and was a bit of a quick and necessary purchase which meant I didn't get to thoroughly inspect if beforehand. Somehow it manages to run Skyrim quite fine though lol.

Hopefully I can figure this out tonight, i'll post back whenever I can if the suggestions worked!

Well. First look in my custom hood, the coast line looks better than ever, I don't think any of my previous computers have shown a real, non jagged coast. Interesting. And the problem seems to be fixed! Played for just a few minutes, changing appearance and all. But so far it's working wonderfully.

Thank you guys for your help!

Hooray, well done for fixing it!