Strange house/family pictures

[EKozski]

Try 1 more GIG of memory

and, a 512 MB video card like jamesbrown1 suggested.

[EKozski]

What happens is, you still have the old drivers installed.

Contact NVIDIA, they can walk you through it.

I emailed them and was up and running in less than a day.

[StupidFriday]

Thanks much. Everyone is such a great help here.

[StupidFriday]

It appears to still not be working. Could it be that something has overheated (as evilkinggumby mentioned before)

[Tenshii~Akari]

Can't rule out a little heat damage... but I do think it may mean some hardware upgrades might be needed to fix the problem.  :?

And just wondering... does going into the lot, saving it, and exiting the lot change anything?  I know I've had some strange glitches in the past where my lots in neighborhood view "exploded", but once I went back into the lot, everything was in place as normal...  a simple save and return to Neighborhood View actually fixed any graphical errors with the messed up looking lots.  Just a long shot, but maybe that'll help, along with deleting your Groups.cache and Accessory.cache files beforehand.  :dontknow:

[StupidFriday]

Unfortunately Going into the lot and saving it is what caused the problm to appear in the first place and it wont go away. This has been an ongoing problem since i bought the original sims2 game. I have tried deleting the groups and accessory cache files and nothing changed (good suggestions there so far).

I have downloaded video and graphics updates and again nothing changed (though I did not check what video driver I was downloading, I just filled out the questionare and it sent me to a page to download the new driver so I assumed it was most recent). Although I have not yet bought the larger amount of memory yet but now that I have money I will buy it asap. Was there anything else I was meant to upgrade?

Thanks to everyone for all your advise still. Everyone is so patient which I am thankful for.

[jamesabrown1]

I can't think of anything else, just the graphics card with 256 to 512 DDR memory on the card and 2 gigs of RAM memory. Good luck!

[StupidFriday]

Because I already downloaded the updates for graphics and video, would it make a difference uninstalling, then re-installing the game?

[EKozski]

If you uninstall, make sure you save all the stuff you want to keep.
Downloads and stuff like that.

[StupidFriday]

So do you think that would be a possibilty to help my game though is to re-install it?

[EKozski]

I've read here and there that reinstalling does help matters. It doesn't hurt to try.

Just remember to save the things you want to hang on to.

[StupidFriday]

Ok thanks, I will try, I have nothing to lose here anyway as my game has barely been touched lately. I just want to try out everything that is free before I spend money on fixing things that didnt need  money being spent on... but I WILL be buying a better RAM memory, and later a new graphics card if all else fails.