Ok Hmmmm this is probably the weirdest thing I have ever encountered playing the sims 2.
I was playing a family today and my two ladies had a son they adopted and last time I played with them, the kids family tree had the two ladies as his parents. but now...it says his parents are Dina Zhang (one of the ladies) but instead of the other lady as the other parent it says....Michael Bachelor O.o So I adopted another kid thinking its just a fluke bug but this kid has one lady as a parent and michael bachelor as the dad too, and hes been dead forever in my game! Now I'm freaked, thinking every kid in my game has michael bachelor as the dad, ruining like generations upon generations of sim families. Please help!

I have 6gbs of ram and plenty of hard drive space so its not that. my town isn't even that big. so its not memory,

I really like beverly woods too

was looking at this thread and saw my sim posted but didnt recognize her lol I was like..wow that name sounds so familiar. I'll be posting more
ethnic' sims here soon. Love this thread.

the computer core? its duo, is that what you mean? i have no idea how to configure the sms 2 for that O.o and yea square is on, i think it may be fixed now, not sure

nope thats not it either, sigh. i just dont know what it could be

yes i have direct x 9, and 10. my screen is 20 inch so i have a 1600x700 or something screen res and i cant have that res in the sims 2 game window, could that be causing the blurry squished/stretchedness? how can i get the sims 2 to have the 20 inch screen res? i gotta have it at that res a normal res looks weird on a larger screen.

yes its the same as the specs on the site. and yes its vista, i have 6 gbs of ram, that should be enough to run vista, all drivers are up to date and nothing running in the background

The games not the least bit slow and it dosent jitter its absolutely everything i could ever want, except the graphics suck. Its odd because the graphics look great for every other game or program, its frakin wonderful everywhere else, amazing quality everywhere else, but in the sims 2...its not as grand as my last computer which only had 0.5 gbs of ram a 2.0 ghz processor and a basic ati radeon graphics card.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_9800gt_us.html

look under specifications

So I recently got this brand new computer, installed all my sims games, and then i tried to play, game works fine

except the graphics quality is so low, I have already tinkered with all the graphic options available and still cannot get the quality to be any better

They appear to be blurred or stretched or squished, it looks almost like sims 1 quality instead of sims 2.

My graphics card is a Nvidia geforce 9800 GT (maybe GTX not sure)
I have 6 gbs of ram and a 3.0ghz processor

So I don't think its a memory or speed issue..
and Yes..the graphics card is installed and I have tinkered with its settings too and cannot get it right.

Please help as I cannot play the sims 2 with sims 1 quality >.>

I have played over 200 households , if not more, in steady rotation. I just remeber everything I do with them and remeber what I need to do. I had to start over in a new town recently though. I did too many terrain overalls and wrecked it.  But so far the new town probably has 15 households, 6 more on the way today. I should have 50 soon. Its not hard really.

hmm that does sound like a great idea there thanks I'll certainly look into that option

Ok so me and the hubby are shopping for a new computer, right now we have 2 custom built computers, mine I will be selling as I never use it since we can only have one hooked up at a time *old house old wiring long story* his is 3 yrs old- a 2.6 ghz processor 200-250 gb hard-drive 1 gb of ram- having a bit of difficulty finding one thats better then that here so I may just modify..further modify his or buy a new one. problem is my precious sims are on his computer. and I'm talking a town I LOVE call Winchester that houses..hundreds if not 1k to 1.5k sims..I need to move that on to the new pc if and when we get one. I can't simply start over Winchester, well I can but I'd rather not.... so...any ideas as to how I do that.. I can't just upload them to the exchange and dl them the family ties..which are numerous would be gone and that would take a year to do. any ideas?....................Also Ati Radeon HD 2400 pro graphics card..would that work for the sims 2? And vista...I work as tech support and well....vista isn't all that great ..does anyone know if stores will give you xp inplace or their vista? I know all stores are different but just wondering if anyone who has bought a computer recently has been able to switch vista for xp.

I unlocked the cow plant, with the career, but the only time someone will reach for the cake is if I've greeted them, and even then, the cow plant will not eat them; it will only pull back, then nuzzle against them. I've watched as visiting sims have kept trying to get the cake, for a day straight, with no results. Is this a common, sudden bug, or something new? And solutions?

they are a really ugly family why did maxis make such an ugly family. i have had no bugs caused by them but if I had my time back i would have deleted them. but sadly I married the oldest son off to one of my sims so now I can't delete them. I soppose I can kill them all off except for him and one of the girls. yes that will work...a plague will infect the ottomas family, good storyline.