Does anyone have this problem?

The TIKI FULL SET from the EA Store is missing the pattern named tikiTrees01Sml_4 and the objects do not show up right in game.

Could anyone please, please help me?

I haven't checked if there're are any driver updates available for Nvidia, but the PC is quite new, I guess I must have the latest drivers installed... I'll check for updates, anyway.

However, as it is only the mirror reflections that do not show correctly, and everything else looks just perfect, I'm guessing it's not the Video Card drivers... It has to be an option... that I did not configurate the right way... For instance when I first played the game, it didn't run, and I got this pop up message that said: "Your anti-alias should be configured to be controlled by the application and not the video card, for the game to run properly". After that, it runned perfectly.

I'm playing the game with both, the in-game and the Nvidia Control Panel configurations set to the highest video qualities, and the game runs smoothly and beautifully. So it's really disappointing that the mirror reflections are glitching. Plus, it's annoying...

Anyone knows about this or has a similar problem?
About the other question about downloads, does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!

Hello, guys!

I bought my Sims 3 yesterday... I'm so happy. I had no troubles with it, at all, except for one... Mirror reflections. Even with the best in-game graphics config, they don't look right... They crash. They show some... glitching?? How do you name those weird blue moving squares... pixels... ? I don't know.

So... Hardware is fine and brand new. My Video Card and computer resources are just perfect for playing this game... I'm guessing that I thought I had the best Video Card configuration, but I missed something... It has to be some option that I checked or unchecked in Nvidia's Control Panel. But I don't know what it is.

The question is: Does anyone know what could it be?

Second question: I can't wait to start downloading stuff. I've read where do package files and sim files go. But I'm not sure if I can in those folders, freely make tons of subfolders, as I would do with Sims 2, to organize my downloads.

I do not want to make the same mistakes I did with my Sims 2... at the end, organizing Downloads was torture... Sims 3 is a fresh start... a chance to do things right, right from the start. He he he... Wow. Guess I'm taking this too seriously... He he he.

Thanks!

Yes... organizing your downloads is really important...

Unfortunatelly, I have to go through this awfully long and boring process of sorting out from a thousand package files, and organizing everything at once, because for years I was broke and only had the base game and UNI, and it is only after NL that one aquires complete freedom to sort things out in sub folders the way one desires.

And, off course, to make things even worse, having only those two games, I was craving for cool downloads!!! So, I collected a zillion files, and now I have to arrange everything, because I do not want to just delete everything and start again: my sims and I have become emotionally attached to many of them.

And, also, I downloaded much crap during that time, and I need to get rid of it, so I can add new stuff... because downloading is my vice!!!

To help me in this long and boring process, I use both, the Sim2Pack Clean Installer and Delphy's Organizer. And here's a tip: Sim2Pack does not see subfolders inside subfolders. You can browse and find them, but when you chose a file and chose "move to", sub-sub-folders won't appear on the list, and that can slow you down a bit.

Hello,

I've got this simple, almost quite stupid question, about organizing your custom content in your downloads folder, that I'm sure someone will be able to answer right away.

I've read some help guides, that according to me, were not exactly clear about this point, and I need to know this, because I'm organizing.

If you have NL or later installed, as it is in my case, you have the freedom to put the content of your downloads folder in an infinite amount of sub-folders.

What I don't know is if you can make sub-sub-folders, and sub-sub-sub-folders and so on...

Thanks

Sorry, but I don't understand.

I patched everything, anyway. 

Hello!

As usual, I've gotten myself in some kind of trouble... now, I'm nervous about making a big mess. So, please, help this poor woman!

I've just re-installed the game, the EPs, SPs, everything... Since I'm starting from zero point, I decided to be careful and tidy this time. I'm slowly adding the stuff I've downloaded in the past, to my downloads folder, trying to put it all in subfolders... very nit. It's a hard hard work...

But... for some reason... something, and I haven't been able to figure out what it was, made the waste bin basket be available for almost everything, every skin and everything! And I'm afraid I might make a mistake and delete something that I'm not supposed to delete... actually I've spend the last half hour trying to think if I hadn't already done that stupidity.

What may have caused this? I've read somewhere that the stuff from the EA Store combined with the CEP were a bad thing, but I looked pass that.

What could happen if I had actually accidentally deleted just one outfit?
This question I actually make it here, because, if I deleted it, it means that I did not like it, therefore, I will not miss it, ever. And if it doesn't mean that my game is going to crash, then I can live with it. However, if it will bring me problems, later, I'd better know now, and install everything again now... since, I would like to be able to back up my game files, in the future, if I keep playing the game, know what I mean?
On the other hand, also, I'm not sure if I actually deleted something that was not deletable... and I'm so lazy about re-installing everything again!

To sum up, having the waste bin available for things that should not be deleted, is a big danger for me... I would like to know how to solve that... maybe someone knows what causes that...

Thanks!

Any opinions or answers or ideas are more than welcome, because I'm very ungry at myself right now for screwing up my very tidy and nit work... I thought this would be the last time I screw my game up!

Thanks again!

P.S.: It's also a big temptation... I've always wondered why Maxis didn't give the players the chance to delete the ugly outfits or chairs, they did not like without screwing up the game? I hope the Sims 3 include that feature... but I doubt it, too.

Hello!

I'm soooo glad you're back, 'cos I have a zillion more stupid questions to ask.

I'm always having issues with my computer, and I've re-installed my game once more... and I keep forgetting what to do with this thing, I need a final answer:

If I want all my custom content to show properly and all my mods and downloaded stuff, and fixes and hacked stuff (yes, I have made sure they're compatible with my game, and I've got every EP and SP available to the day) to work properly... am I supossed to activate or deactivate the question at the start of the game??? I'm really confused...

So far, I started the game once, and the question poped up. I checked "activate these custom contents" and played the game. But the mods were not working. Left the game, started it again. The question poped up again. The mods were not working, either. I thought they were supposed to work the second time. So, I unchecked the option that makes the question pop up at the start. And left the game. Came here to post. I'm starting the game to see what happens now, but anyway I'll check later to see if anyone was able to reply this to me.

And, if this thing works now, am I supposed to leave that thingy unchecked? Will other mods that I add later work?

Well, thanks. A lot.

I have the InSIMenator and I haven't found the option, Where is it? I've read the manuals, and I must have missed it. Where is it?

Is there a way to change a family's last name?

I got it solved.

Don't ask me how I came up with this, or why it worked... It's just that when you have a problem with your PC you try everything... what's logical, and what isn't. What seems to have sense and what doesn't. And you get creative and invent solutions... he he he.

Well... here's what I did. I put all of my downloads in a different part of my HD. I deleted the Downloads folder. I created a new folder, and renamed it Downloads. I put all of my downloads in it. Including the infamous "Face Replacements" folder. I cleaned up all the garbage, meaning: groups cache, accesories cache, cigen package, and thumnails.

I started the game. And bam! There they were... my face replacements!!! And let me tell you that those pictures you said that wouldn't change, well, they did, they do change. If you delete the thumbnails, they change. You need to periodically clean all the "garbarge" in your EA's Sims 2 folder if you're a downloadholic like me, for all your custom content to show up right in your game.

Cool. Now, the problem is that I hated some of them as much I hate Maxis' ones. What I need is a picture of all the faces in CAS numbered, so I can actually recognize which one is which one, and be able to choose from different sets the ones I want. The only one I have identified is the heart face.

So, if anyone knows where I cna find one... thank you!

Thank you all for trying!

I looooove this forum.

What do you mean with "the controls"??

Mmmm... I don't think I explained myself right, then.

I tried all that. Making a folder, not making a folder... etc.

I tried changing only one face: the heartface by Oepu, and it didn't work.
I tried other sets, just one set complete by only one creator, and didn't work either.

My intention was to choose the best 27 (that's the number) faces for my game, from all the different sets created by different people. Off course I was not trying to install several complete sets!

But all of my faces just look the same... I don't know why. There's got to be something else I'm missing, I don't know.

But, thanks anyway.

Hello!

I downloaded CAS Face Template Replacements, ny Oepu and some other creators, and then I tried to install them.

First, I dropped them in my Downloads folder and they didn't work.

So, I deleted the thumbnails files and the cigen package and then the groups cache... And they still didn't work.

Then, I put them in my saved sims folder, since I read somewhere that it could maybe work then, but it didn't work either...

Anything else I can try?

I would REEEEALLY like to change my CAS face templates, because Maxis are too too fugly.

Thank you, very very much.

Hello,

I can't build on apartment lots, not even when they are empty. Is this right?

There's an option in the InSIMenator that should allow me to build, but it's not working for me either.

Help, please?