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Title: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: bimbelina on 2006 May 22, 01:31:08 None of my aquariums have fish anymore? There's air bubbles, and the little sea chest opens & closes, the option to feed fish is there, but no fish. My sims don't care - they act like there are fish there, but I don't see any fish. What could I have done to break this?
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: akatonbo on 2006 May 22, 01:42:14 Installed Open for Business. ;)
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 May 22, 02:47:01 I think they're there in the Landgrabbe aquarium in my game. Have you tried selling the aquarium and replacing it with a new one?
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: Pegasys on 2006 May 22, 03:26:27 This seems to be a common problem that occurs after Open For Business is installed. However, I have not seen that anyone has figured out why it happens. It doesn't occur in all configurations; the fish are still visible in my post-OFB game.
I suspect somehow it might have to do with graphic card specs, but I could be way off-base on this. Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: Nec on 2006 May 22, 03:44:55 Well, I have no fish either (tried everything), and after viewing so many threads on it I have found only one thing that seems to be common - nVidia video cards, regardless of drivers, type, etc. At least that is what I have noticed. Perhaps if all fish seers and non-fishseers posted their make/model we might figure this out?
nVidia GeForce FX5500 256mb 8x AGP Would a poll like this be easier? Nvidia ()fish ()no fish ATI ()fish ()no fish Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: BlueSoup on 2006 May 22, 04:44:13 If you want, you can make a real poll in The Podium.
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: Nec on 2006 May 22, 06:06:32 If you want, you can make a real poll in The Podium. Ok, good idea :) Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: bimbelina on 2006 May 22, 06:39:14 I found my fish. Apparently, OFB has decided that my video card isn't beefy enough to handle complexities of aquarium fish, and turned off shaders (whatever that is). I added "boolprop useshaders true" to my userstartup.cheat file, and now I have fish again. Seems to be a very common problem, mentioned several times in the non-awesome places (I was lucky enough to find the fix at one of them, though).
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: VyeOlin on 2006 May 23, 20:53:42 Thanks for posting that, now I'll have fish again. :)
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 May 23, 21:37:58 I'll have to try it too, thanks!
Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: twistingsims on 2006 May 31, 21:13:30 I found my fish. Apparently, OFB has decided that my video card isn't beefy enough to handle complexities of aquarium fish, and turned off shaders (whatever that is). I added "boolprop useshaders true" to my userstartup.cheat file, and now I have fish again. Seems to be a very common problem, mentioned several times in the non-awesome places (I was lucky enough to find the fix at one of them, though). um I thought "useshaders true" was used to turn the pool water movement on and b/c my video card, an ATI 9200 isn't enough for that I keep it turned off, always have even b4 OFB. I'm afraid if I use it on all the time, I will have more "blue screen of death". Title: Re: Hey, where's my fish? Post by: ZephyrZodiac on 2006 May 31, 21:22:30 Is it your card or your drivers?
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