Hi There!
I did run thru the tutorial, however it did not fix a thing. So then I decided to try to reinstall seasons, took out all hacks as before, and now things have been alright a couple days. I am checking things slowly. I seen someone else here post a picture of the neighborhood overview (Riverblossom) looking like *straw* and, just plain icky. (I have that same problem.) I have a brand spankin new video card (Compatible with game)and I just think its the quality of perhaps how the *Weather* is presented on that view, because once you are in it, seems fine. I am on high video graphics setting too.
At least thusfar I am not crashing, seems to have stopped when switching to neighborhood menu..because the main reason I unstalled and reinstalled was because that began happening in Pleasantveiw too. Perhaps something went haywhire upon install the first time who knows. I will not count my chickens just yet either...I know better.
My crashes stopped, however, this expansion has so many glitches if it acts up too bad again, after I put my few hacks back peice by peice again, I will just remove it till they come out with another much needed patch IMO.
I do not feel bad I let it sit on my desk for a couple months before I installed it anyway, because of all the bugs it had at first. This is the first patch I have seen go in so unsmoothly. I wonder, (thank goodness I do not create) if its worth the risk of building up all your homes and hoods business etc, just to have to go thru things that change, I had tons of CC to fix. Is it worth loosing all that info...and all that work....too me not. I think Maxis should have worked weather in
earlier in the beginning of release this way they could have built around such a
dramatic change.
Thanks for the help, and listening.
Moonlit