I had a toddler that had the stuck moodlet for music. She finally lost it after she aged to a child.

I have a star athlete as well, and the bookstore does appear to be the only one with the advertising deal. I did check to see if the other rabbit holes had the option.

I don't seem to have much of a problem getting the ghosts to scare my sims. I usually just put them in the path of where the ghost is floating, and the ghost scares them.

As for the pets, I've never seen a pet's ghost scare it's former owners. But I have seen the ghost of a dog scare a visitor once.

The gypsy dropping off the genie lamp no longer works. At least not in the trailer park. I would imagine it's because she can't leave the lamp in a 'common' area. She shows up on the lot as usual in her 'sneaky' mode, gets to your sim's door, then leaves without dropping off the lamp. She says the usual 'You have blah, blah arduous journey', etc. and then leaves. No lamp.

That could be why my neighborhood screen hasn't been flashing for some time now. I did change my camera mod a while back to another that was compatible with BV. I still get 'blackouts', both in my neighborhood and in my lots, but that's after quite a few hours of game play. That's probably due to my slow processor.

I do get less 'blackouts' by simply turning off shadows and reflections. It also gives me a few more hours of game play before my PC has had enough and crashes the game. I like the idea of getting rid of the trees in the neighborhood. I enjoy seeing a lush neighborhood and all, but I'm only in the neighborhood view for a minute or two, so it wouldn't make much difference to me with less trees. Anything to get more game play time, in my opinion.

I talked to the ATI tech and he said if Nvidia is having problems with the game as well, it does sound like the game is causing most of the problems. He said until they come up (EAxis) with a patch to fix the problem, what I had been doing would be his first suggestion. Yes, I did tell him that a patch to fix that will most likely never happen.

He said in my case, my biggest problem at the moment could be that my processor can't keep up with my graphic card's speed, which will also cause graphic corruption. I have an ancient processor (AMD 1.7) and my card is a higher end card so yes, I need to upgrade my motherboard. I've slowly upgraded everything else, and was planning on my next purchase of upgrading the MB and more RAM, anyway. I SHOULD have done that a long time ago. 

Occasionally,  just using the auto configuration on my monitor will work (sometimes it takes a couple of times). Other times, I have to minimize the game to my desktop, wait several minutes, then bring the game back up. Usually my graphics card will try to readjust itself. If those two ideas don't work for me, I just shut the game down and wait a couple of hours. I've been meaning to call ATI this week about this problem, since my card is still in warranty. I've only had it for a few months. Maybe they'll have a better idea.

Or maybe I'll hear the tech groan again after I told him what game I was having trouble in with the last card.     

I've got the same problem with an ATI card, as well. Mine started out getting wonky in the neighborhood screen (the same flashing) and has now progressed onto the lots. Even the small lots. It always happens after several hours of play. So far, the only way I've gotten around it is to lower some of my graphic settings.

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