And yet, somehow, Riverblossom Hills is not the neighbourhood with the worst buildings… But seriously, why did the houses get so much worse in the latter expansion packs?
I sense a recurring theme: circles.
Omg I remember this thing! It’s like they didn’t even try!
Right? It’s just… so square… I mean, if there were estate agents in the Sims 2, they would advertise it as”simple” and emphasise that there is a pool…
I was wondering if anyone has any insight in to the lighting situation here: There’s a ceiling light centered over the table that appears to be lighting the table and the gents in this picture a little more brightly than I’d even like, while the ladies look like they’re in the dark.
This particular picture really isn’t important, but I feel like I struggle with getting my gameplay shots lit to my satisfaction. I’ve been trying to take preview pictures for some hair retextures I want to make available for download, as well, and can’t seem to get decent lighting and posing for those.
My game has been acting up the last couple days. The other night I loaded twice and tried going into a specific empty lot, and it crashed both times during loading the lot. I went in the third time to another, occupied lot and played with no issues.
Tonight, I was playing this family, both in this lot and in another lot I moved them to, and I was getting pink flashing objects everywhere. I’ve never had that before.
I’m Googling and trouble shooting to try some things, but if anyone has any advice I’ll take it!
Jebediah explains it very well, and I agree with a lot of their solutions, although I don’t think that it is necessarily a need to turn down your graphics effects if you take other precautions as listed below.
Pink Flashing is because you are running out on Texture Memory. It’s not necessarily a problem with your graphics card. The way that the game was programmed means that the texture memory doesn’t get reset when it gets full, it just over-writes the textures that were already there.
We can fix this in two ways –
One increase your Display Memory,
a. Reset your PC before you play your game (or if you’re like me turn it off when you go to bed) – this will minimise the amount of display memory
b. Set your Texture Memory in your Graphic Rules.sgr to the size of your display memory in the DXDiag (thanks Jebediah for that tip).
c. Get a graphics card with a BIG display memory. (I saw one just recently that had a display memory that was greater than 4095Mb – it was 12K Mb – there ain’t no running out of that display Memory.
Two decrease your Display Memory Usage.
a. Check your thumbnail folder – if you have any thumbnails above 100M, there’s a good chance you’ve got thumbnail bloat. I fixed that with a friend and her pink flashing went away completely.
b. Reduce the number of large textures you have in your game – Start with bedding, hair, and things that have textures greater or equal to 1024×1024. I have about 50-75 beddings in my game, of which most of them are defaulted to the maxis textures – hence not taking up extra textures.
c.Only have stuff in your game that you actually use. You know how when you save a lot, a ton of recolours comes with it, and you have to weed them out? Those recolours are what was loaded into the display memory with the house. If you have 1500 recolours, but you only use 500 or so, remove the ones you don’t use. Save the stuff you don’t use out of game so that it’s there if you ever want it, but not taking up memory if you don’t. Then only specifically put it back in game if you need it.
d. To be honest, if you do a, b, c – you’ll be ok. It’s only if you have a dinosaur-load of CC with huge textures, and a piddly display memory that you’ll need to reduce graphic effects, and that’s what comes next.
e. I do not agree with reducing the smooth edges from max. Especially with the later Operating Systems, this is necessary to stop flickering.
Final Note:
I agree with Jebediah regarding the texture memory from dxdiag, but I’m not convinced that you have to use only Graphic Rules Maker. If you get to that part, but are having trouble, come to Leefish, and I’ll set it up for you.
Does anyone know what to do about this? My dog ate it before I had a chance to redeem it and no one at EA’s customer support seems to be able to help me. I was going to get some more Sims 4 EPs. I’m super upset because it’s $20 just down the drain.
Hey, folks. I have one small request. Can we please not let this renewed interest in and excitement around TS4 result in more negativity and “game vs. game” sentiment in our community? Let’s all try to live and let live, and let people have fun if they’re having fun. Please?
That was my initial idea for the Holiday Classics Meme! Problematic thing: it’s not really a holiday thing (I guess… I’m not very familiar with the ‘holiday’ definition). It’s a german cult classic which is aired every New Year’s Eve… multiple times in many adaptions (one involves a humanoid talking bread, a bush and a sheep… Don’t ask). It’s an english skit originally, but I don’t think it’s popular outside of Germany.
Dinner for one
Ms. Sophie (played by an aged up Natasha Una) celebrates her 90th birthday with her closest friends. Unfortunatly they are all already dead, so her loyal butler James (John Mole) is doing his best to let her relive the good old times. She enjoys a five course dinner with her imaginary friends and James is advised to toast her before every meal in place of her dead friends. There are five meals and four toast per meals, so it gets wacky soon. James also has a little feud going on with the tiger fur on the ground- he tends to trip over it. It’s really wacky and funny and very beloved in my country.
I’m not sure if I can put it in the ‘Holiday Classics Meme’… Ah, heck, I’m doing it. If it doesn’t fit, it won’t be reblogged. Also, I’m sorry for the wall of text…
Reblogging an old picture because I forgot to prepare anything for New Years Eve!
Happy New Year everybody!
Let’s beat that horse to death…
Happy New Year everybody! I hope you have a nice evening.
Watching the X-Files has helped Nervous come out of his shell, though not only for the best. Currently whenever he sees PT#9, the twins, or Johnny he stops everything and screams I WANT TO BELIEVE at the top of his lungs. PT#9 is peaceful by nature, but he’s strongly considering lobotomizing the man.
I was once again sorted into Hufflepuff and my Patrons is a Lynx.
I was also resorted into Hufflepuff! My Ilvermorny house is Pukwudgie. Patronus is a Polecat.
Another Hufflepuff here! Ilvermorny house is Pukwudgie, too. And my patronus is a dolphin. I’m not a huge fan of them, but it was fun seeing it swim around the forest.
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