Character portraits

[short2cake]

Ok.  Of course I have no idea how any of that works so I thought I'd ask.

I've only seen that pose once.  I used the agesims cheat to age a zombie down (way back when Uni came out) to child to see if they would retain the zombie skintone when aged back up.  When I aged them back up they had that crucified pose...freaky.

[Chaavik]

The pose is freaky but it is at least acceptable for me so I don't have to see the game switching the poses on me every time the Sim changes clothes or wear their bathing trunks or outerwear.

But still.. the game is trying to switch poses.. Not much with just two poses.

[short2cake]

It's not so much the poses I mind, they change again so soon you don't have to look at any one in particular for that long anyway.  It's the lag.
I have a sims that know a lot of other folks and whenever I go to the relationship panel or use the phone book, the lag from it having to update all those thumbnails is ridiculous.

I don't even know why EA would include something like that.  It's not like people were begging for a "feature" like this.  But leave it to EA to not fix what's broken and add stuff that's ignorant.

[Chaavik]

Agreed 100%. This was something many of us DID NOT want. And to see that this issue wasn't addressed in the patch notes is indicating that they don't give a rat's arse about us and what we want.

At least the temp mod I have in place will keep me happy until they get around to fixing it 10 years later.

[Sam the T-man]

Dizzy's come up with a solution, found here - be warned though, from what he says it's not fixable in packages; he had to fix the .exe itself. You'll need to read through the thread for instructions and support.

[Squinge]

I wouldn't use a modified .exe myself.

[Chaavik]

After I read the thread you posted about the "possible" fix to the issue with the UI portraits changing constantly in AL, I have some doubts. He hinted that these .exe hacks are for the no-cd cracked version of Sims 2. That was my general impression.

He did not say if the .exe hacks apply to the digital EP or not. Because I downloaded AL digitally.

I would say be very careful and read the instructions thoroughly before applying something that directly modifies the game code in that manner.

I will ask in that thread about these .exe hacks and find out if they can be used for the digital version of Sims 2 with no cracked cd hack.

EDIT:

I decided not to try one of those .exe hacks because I don't want to ruin my game files and whatnot after doing hard work setting up the game the way I want it to run. Right now, my mod is doing the same job reasonably well and is safer to use in the Downloads folder. Once I find that one anim pose to replace with, then the mod is considered tested and done. If anyone wants to use this alternative safely, please do let us know.

[Squinge]

I am locking this thread that fix is for nocd hacks which you can't post on this site