More Awesome Than You!

Today I finally got a chance to download the patch, and after it was done dowloading and whatever I went and tried to play. When Sunset Valley loaded up this is what I got:

(http://i31.tinypic.com/2hi2g4m.jpg)

And so, I turned my graphics settings down (all of them on low) and then it turned everything red.

(http://i30.tinypic.com/2ytz146.jpg)

Anybody know why? My game was running (and looking) perfectly fine before I downloaded the patch :/

This looks like what sometimes happens if you leave IngePE running with a system file locked.

I have no idea what that is. How would I fix it then?

I did a fresh install today (I uninstalled a few weeks ago and had now I've got nothing to play!), and I have the same problem.

Installed the game
Installed the patch
Ran the game (before any mods or downloads installed)

I have since installed all the downloads from EA, Riverview, and Awesomemod (and the Framework), and I deleted the 4 cache files from my Sim 3 directory.
I know I had this problem before, but I cannot for the life of me remember how I solved it. I know I posted on here about it, but I cannot find it with Search.

This happened when I tried to use the Mod Organizer from MTS2, I ditched that and reinstalled the framework (with Delphys program), then put everything back. That helped.

Well, I doubt that is my problem, because I haven't heard of this Mod Organizer, and I didn't have Framework (or any downloads or mods) installed the first time I to run the game.

So far I've tried deleting Awesomemod and all Cache files, and running on minimum settings. I can't think what else I could try that might work.

I think I may have sorted mine. I did a completed uninstall, then installed the game, ran it (and the launcher) to generate the files in the Documents folder, then installed the patch. No problems so far.

I haven't tried installing any downloads or the Awesomemod yet, but hopefully they won't be a problem.

Mine was a corrupt dx....dll in game files/bin. Don't remember much.

I have this problem to; believe I also managed to run the Mod Organizer, reinstalling the game and running without any custom content don't help.
 
Where do I find the framework? I just installed and run the helper monkey, will reinstalling it help?
I also had a game crash during load, so I have two issues, red and black town and missing patterns.

Extremely strange that a game bug can survive a reinstall?

Is everyone in here running XP or is anyone in here running Vista or Windows 7?

For those running XP, try updating Directx and post back if this fixes anything: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3

I don't have the mod organizer. I reinstalled the game and that didn't fix it. I ended up reformatting my laptop and that fixed it. I'm still not sure what caused it though.