Well, first of all, I DID take all the hacks out and reinstall them one at a time and cannot find the issue with the hack, if that is what it is, and the mesh may not be a maxi mesh.  I did dl a couple of non maxi.  

I think that it would be really cool to be able to say that I think that EA goes so far and stops, uncool to tell me to not say that.  It is my opinion.  Just like all the patches they never made for the SIMs1 EPs past the pet one.  They were too intent on creating the SIMs2.  But, we paid good money for those games too.  I had hell trying to play them, as did a ton of other ppl, until I just gave up.  So, that is my opinon.

I have a media center, fairly new, and a nvidia GE force 5200 video card, BIOS version 4.34.10.42.37, driver version 7.7.7.9 date 8-2-05.  I tried changing the settings in the game for the graphics, reading about that here.  Like you, I thought this was a graphics problem, but the baffling thing is that it only happens on the neighborhoods that I have added, not the three that are already set up in the game.  And, the ones already set up have a LOT more stuff in them tbat the ones that I have made.   So the usage with them is much heavier than that ones that I have been building.

Also, all dls that I have added back are titled as NL compatible.  I have made sure of that.  And, I have only added ppl, clothes and very little furniture.  As for the hacks, one at a time.  I did find a conflict, as reported earlier, with the teen woohoos, that was upgraded the day that I reported it.  So, that was causing me some difficutly.  It just makes me gunshy to find dls that make my game more fun.

Thanks a lot.  I am confused, when I went to the link provided, the only teen woohoo that I saw said that it did not go with the inteenimater.  Maybe I was directed to the wrong link accidentially or am I missing something on the page?

Ok...here is the latest.  I have dled very few things, and there is a problem that I cannot rectify.  On the neighborhoods that I have created, when I move around the lot, before I pick a house to go into or etc, the grass turns black. If I mess with the night/day toggle or most anything, it goes back to normal, but turns black again when I move around.  It seems to do it especially when I am over water.  I have tried disabling all but the insimenator.  I will try that next. However before I go on, has anyone had this?  Maybe I should start a new link with the black landscape/water issue.  I will do that, if someone answers here, super.  I am really frustrated.  I have never had problems with ts2 until I dled the insimenator and other things from this site.  It may be the combination that I have dled, I have a lot of friends who have the insimenator and use it with no problems.  If I could pinpoint what in the H I am doing, I would frigging stop it, you know?  I just want to play, but, I love the dls too.  They add so much, I think that EA is lazy.  The hackers bring so much value and fun.  Surely I am not the only player that this happens to?  Also, I had another sim with hair and clothes and body, but, no face.  I just killed her off.  She was a nice girl.  ha.  But, I could not find anyone dled by me that had no face.  This may be a mesh thing..not sure.

I went to the link for the NL inteenimater and it said this:

If the folder doesn't already exist, you will need to create it yourself. This mod is not compatible with any other implementation of teen woohoo including the InTeenimater and S2L's Teen Woohoo. You must remove these from your downloads folder prior to using this mod!

So, this teen woohoo that is updated for NL is not compatible with Inteenimater?

No, it was a conflict.  When I reinstalled NL, she could scope in any situation.  When I added a couple things back, she still could.  I went to the same house, same sim and took her to the same nightclub downtown everytime that I have added things back so that I am getting the same response from the same sim in the same situation.  The teen woohoo was my problem.  There may have been others, and I do not know what caused the disappearing body phenom, but Teen Woohoo definately was at least one of the scoping problems.  

I will dl the new one tonight.  Thanks for all your help and as I reload things in, I will let you guys know what happens, if there are conflicts.

OK, I uninstalled and reinstalled NL.  Then I systematically dled some of the things I had from before.  One thing that I wanted to share was that the woohoo teens caused a conflict.  That one was one of my problems from before.  Just wanted to share that and as I find others I will share them as well.  Otherwise, it runs great.

Is there a particular site that you would recommed for recolors and other furniture, bodys/ppl, etc.?

Ok and finally, do I uninstall ALL of the game, TS2 and all the EP?  When you talk about downloads, me having a lot, they are different colored furniture, etc.  These are not to worry about, right?  I need to be sure.  I have 27 packages, according to clean installer, and I need to know about the career thing please.  When you guys say do away with them for now, is that any that I can see in the clean installer or in content mgr?  

I just want to be sure that you know that these probs started when I tried to install the new uv2.1 vs of the Insimenator and the new vs os the Inteeninater.  Along with the other things that have been promoted on the site, like twins/trips, the new npcs for NL, etc.  Before I tried to get them, I was ok.  And, I did remove the old insimenator and I have never had the inteeninater before this.

One other thing, when I run the clean installer, I am deleting all highlighted in pink, they are dups, right?  What at the ones highlighted in red?  I note that we are supposed to delete all career, do I delete all of them in clean installer?  Or, are there others?  I can see barbers, etc, in the clean installer, what I am noticing are the ones highlighted in red.  There may be others not highlighted, right?  I am so confused.  I have been playing sims for a long time and love the sims 2, but NL is buggy with something for me.

Ok, please bear with me.  Some of what you are saying is over my head.  I am sorry to not get it all.

When you say a clean install, do you mean The Sims 2 and all the expansion packs?  Also, when you talk about putting things in one at a time, do you mean like each piece of furniture in a set that someone made?  I have a kazillion objs that were modded or made.  I cannot imagine that you would put each thing in there one at a time?  When I ran the clean install, there are like 2000 things.  There is no way I could do them one at a time, is there?

When I say that I cannot scope, it is not one of the options when I click on my sim.  So, for some reason it is not there, something is interfering, is my thought.  My game plays ok if I drive to downtown and ignore that one dude at the crypt club with no body or head...just a floating face...kinda creepy.  At first I thought he was a vampire..haha.  I had not seen one at that point, but have seen one since.  

The Objects.pkg file, is there only one?  or a kazillion, are all the objects there?  I have no looked yet.    What do I change the extension to make it read only?  .txt?  

When I do reinstall my games, should I start by dling the insimenator and inteeninater first?  Are all or most of the things that  I get from this site usable?  How can I tell if things that I want to dl are compliant?  Whatever is going on was not a problem before NL.  Should I just turn off all dled stuff in the clean installer and see if the game works then?  Add them back how, surely not one at a time?  that boggles my mind.

Thank you for your help and your patience.

Do I have to uninstall anything first?  If I have to start over completely, what file do I save to not lose my game progress.  This just sucks.  Is there somethint that I did, so I can avoid doing this again.  And, thank you so much for your quick respose.  I have one other question.  I cannot scope the room, it is not an option....Is that part of my existing problem, or something to do with the mods?

Ok, at first when I dled the new insimenator for NL, I could not get it to go into the download folder.  I know that sounds nuts, but with the install option, it kept putting it in the wrong folder, even though the correct one was chosen

I manually moved the insimenator, and all the parts of the inteeninater.  How does the inteeninater work?  Is it the choice if teens only?  I also manually moved all the other dls, the npcs, etc, that are new for NL.  

Now, I cannot get a taxi to take me downtown.  I can drive there, but when I get into the taxi, I am transported to downtown, but the taxi nor the sim is there.  The only options are to buy or build.  

Also, there are several sims roaming around downtown and in my city with a face only, no head, perse, and no body.

What have I done and how can I fix this mess.  Thanks so much.  I tried EA tech questions, but no help there.   :cry: