When I played the Sims 3 game earlier today everything worked great. But when I got off line to play the game again I got this. The photo is the best I could get. Could anyone tell me what would cause this to happen.

Moving to Game Help.

Let me guess - you have an ATI card, right? Try rebooting and leaving your PC off for a few mins.

No. I Have the NVIDIA 8500 GT.
I went into where all the mods are and removed them all. The game went back to what is was before I downloaded the mods. I also looked at the launcher. It had the Automatic updates checked. Which I did not realize that it was. Did EA put that patch into my game without me knowing? Cause before I came online. The game worked really well with the mods. Now it doesn't. Anyways I unchecked the Auto update.

From now on , you should launch the game from the .exe file. As far as the card goes, I doubt that the patch would cause the problem.

Thanks. In other words no more Launching the laucher!

All Fixed. Thanks or your help.

I hope it doesn't come back. It really does look like a graphics card/ hardware problem. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

That was the first time. That it has ever happen. You know in the game where you get your sim to upgrade something. Then they pull out that hammer. At times that is what I feel like doing to vista! Once again thank you.