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Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Christy1077 on September 29, 2008, 07:24:21 am Whenever I load a lot or Load any neighborhood the ground flashes and or it turns black. I just bought a new computer to ensure that the specs were compatible with the Sims and all of the expansion packs. Does anyone know what I could do to fix it? Everything else works fine in the game it's just this problem I'm having.
OS:Windows Vista 4GB RAM 256 Nvida Geforce 8600 Thanks to anyone that can help. Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Jasumi on September 29, 2008, 07:50:24 am have you tried turning shaders off?
boolprop useshaders false I have a high-end graphics card and it does this nonsense as well. Some of the newer cards do not like the shader profiles in Seasons. Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Christy1077 on September 29, 2008, 07:54:33 am Thanks for the fast response :D! I'll try that out in my game, and see if it works.
Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Christy1077 on September 29, 2008, 10:28:30 pm It didn't work, unfortunately. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? :D
Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Squinge on September 29, 2008, 10:45:41 pm Have you installed the latest video drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us)?
Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: rwills on September 30, 2008, 04:55:23 am Just in case (sounds like a typical Nvidia/Sims2 card problem - although they are listed as compatible, nvidia cards and Sims 2 don't generally play well together but the usual problems can be tamped down to a minimum), try it with this spelling instead:
boolprop useShaders false and additionally this one: boolprop objectShadows false And do follow the advice given above to get the latest drivers. Get drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us And remember to uninstall the old drivers first before installing the new ones. See here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=10&p_created=1096404673&p_sid=hPzLT8fj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjAyLDIwMiZwX3Byb2RzPSZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1kcml2ZXJz&p_li=&p_topview=1 and also here: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1972&p_created=1161647105&p_sid=hPzLT8fj&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjAyLDIwMiZwX3Byb2RzPSZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1kcml2ZXJz&p_li=&p_topview=1 Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Christy1077 on September 30, 2008, 06:35:32 am Thanks Everyone. I have the latest drivers but I'm going to try the cheat again to see if it works. I really appreciate all of the help :D!
Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: DarkAmaranth on September 30, 2008, 07:53:10 pm It may also be that you have anti aliasing forced. If nothing else works try this.
FORCED ANTI-ALIASING: The Sims 2 will have graphical problems if anti-aliasing is forced to always be on. To fix this: * From the Start Menu, choose "Control Panel" * In the Control Panel, choose "NVIDIA Control Panel" * Select "3D settings" * Under "Appearance", select "Adjust Image Settings with preview" * Choose "Let the 3D Application decide" option and Accept If that isn't it, then it is possible hyperthreading is enabled in your BIOS and you need to disable it. If ou are not comfortable changing your BIOS settings, contact a techinal support rep at NVIDIA and they can help you do it properly. Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: rwills on September 30, 2008, 08:19:29 pm As you are using Vista, if you haven't already done so you might try turning off Windows Defender. See here for how-to:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-disable-Windows-Defender Reasons? a) it's a piece of redundant crapola anyway. b) having it enabled in the background could be gobbling up enough resources to impact your gameplay. Also, if you happen to be running Norton anti-virus, turn it off before (and keep it off during) gameplay. Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: wanturs on October 02, 2008, 10:33:33 am ask ur store for helpn ur pc 1
Title: Ground flashes and turns black! Help Please Post by: Christy1077 on October 06, 2008, 07:07:17 pm Thanks EVERYONE :D. It doesn't flash nearly as bad as it use to, I've just got to stop spinning or moving too frequently, but I've learned to live with it.
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