Tossed $100 into the bucket.

A binary search is performed by removing half of your downloads at a time to narrow down your search.

Keep repeating the process until you have found the bad CC.

Using Awesomemod will eliminate the need for a no-cd crack.

I play both.  Big difference is that I can play TS2 for hours at a time.  I get bored after only 30 minutes of TS3.

For me, it has nothing to do with lack of expansion packs or objects.  I simply can't stand how the Sims look.  I actually have an interest in my TS2 Sims.

Have you tried having him do strength workouts on the weight machine? 

The cardio workouts like jogging will cause a loss of fat, but the weight machine will cause a muscle gain which should help with the anorexic look.  Not sure how well the muscle sticks - most of my Sims work out on a regular basis; so, they have not lost any muscle over time.

I'm not having any lag issues with my 3.0 GHz duo core processor.

There are quite a few other things that could be causing your lag.  You may want to post all of your computer specs; so, we can see the whole picture.

My Sim was fatigued from working out.  I had him hop into the pool to go swimming.  He died fairly quickly with all his motives in green.  A moodlet popped up about not being able to breath under water and needing air, but he happily just kept swimming.  He never attempted to leave the pool and seemed quite content to swim around.  When the timer on the moodlet reached zero he drowned.

I agree that the jaw did not translate well to the female clone.  It should have been more square.  I also don't know where she got that brow.  He does not appear to have that huge, silly clown-like arch in the eyebrow. On the other hand, I think that the nose translated very well to the female version.  The male's nose is a bit high on the face which actually suits him well.  However, with the female shrunken nose, the distance is too enlarged and the nose appears way too high.  It almost appears as if she smells some foul odor.

Your tweaked female looks much more like the sister of the male Sim than the clone to me.  I don't think beauty has anything to do with it - the clone simply appears to have an odd combination of features not are necessarily ugly, but they are odd.  The features for the tweaked female simply are more in tune with one another and she looks much more like a sibling to the male. 

It's probably not a bug.  Just stupid EA.  I think TS2 did a very similar thing to the female/male version of the faces.  It has never made a whole lot of sense to me.

Egad!  I don't need more imperfections.  The skin on my Sims already looks splotchy up close. 

I need a smoother skin texture with better shadowing to give more definition to the Sim. 

I have everything on high.  The scenery is stunning, the Sims are blah.  They simply don't look as good as they do in CAS.  As mentioned by zolabee the blush looks like bruising and the skin is splotchy when up close.  I don't think that I've noticed smeared makeup at all.  Also, like GnatGoSplat mentioned, the pie menu picture always looks much better than the Sim.

I have 4 GB 800Mhz RAM using XP & dual 8800 GT 512MB video cards.  I've run the game in SLI mode and in single GPU mode and it does not seem to make a difference at all in the gameplay or the graphics.  My gameplay is very smooth.  No noticeable lag at all.

If you want to believe the Prima Guide, yes, you are correct.  According to the guide, you have to build up the relationship in order to use the bathroom at another Sim's home.  I have not tested this myself.

People who actually purchased the game and received it early have already signed up on TS3 and can post in the forums without any issues.  You simply have to have a valid serial.  Apparently, you cannot download from the exchange including Riverview until Tuesday.  So, there is no "unauthorized" message from a purchased game.

The Store is how I expected it to be: overpriced and filled with craptastic items that will most likely need to be tweeked and fixed by modders.

On another note, it looks like they have really made the story making process easier.  It appears as if you upload images and then arrange the story online.  I am cringing at the fact that audio is now included - something about BBS stories and audio just doesn't settle well with me.

Is there any particular reason, other than the obvious, why TSR was given the tools to design a custom content tool back in January?

http://www.thesimsresource.com/workshop

Not sure how EA or TSR can continue to deny their relationship after this...

The Associated Press has a comment from EA:

"EA said the pirated version "is a buggy, pre-final" version of the game.

"It's not the full game. Half of the world — an entire second city — is missing," said spokeswoman Holly Rockwood in a statement.

Electronic Arts has announced it is publishing "The Sims 3" without restrictive anti-piracy software known as DRM, a form of copy protection that requires online authentication."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i2Ts-zyPtq_1NOZV49oeN7ZvY4RgD98BBEMG0

I thought that the second city was going to be a download and not included in the game? 

Edited to add: EA and their stupid misleading statements.

(Link was posted on the BBS)

Sounds like EA's attempt to indicate that a couple is in a committed relationship although not engaged. 

I actually really wanted that option in TS2.  On the other hand, "going steady" sounds a bit childish.

M&G Nightlife shows on the splash screen for me. 

I have all EPs, all SPs except Family Fun & DD outfits.  Nothing has been Arr'd.

I am not using a custom neighborhood or subhood just Pleasantview with the standard Downtown.

I do that, too.  Still they come back.

I actually have the same issue.  Deleting the offenders with "moveobjects on" worked for that play session; however, they returned during a later session (after exiting the game entirely and re-entering the apartment lot).

I continue to delete the offenders each time I play the apartment complex.  All of Sims show back up at the apartment complex and won't leave.  They lived in different apartments and have since married, moved into a single family home and have children.  One of the apartments is still occupied by another playable and the other apartment complex is now occupied by a townie.

I just assumed that the apartment building was borked.  It was one of the buildings that shipped with the game.

I haven't noticed this on my other apartment lots.  On the other hand, I don't play apartment lots often; so, it could simply be that I didn't notice it on the other lots.

http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/uni/

You'll need to download the moreawesomethanyou.zip to get the uni version of dailygardener.  Read the .txt file and you'll see that it is included.

Not sure that your system can handle it, but that's already been mentioned.  You'll need to alter the Graphics Rule file.

As posted by Jordi:


(edit to delete double posting of link)

Very interesting.

I, too, am no expert.  I took 1 semester of Latin a long, long time ago.  I believe that "bene" is a latin prefix meaning "well" or "favorable".  So, Benemoodus is only partially made up.

Edit to add from dictionary definitions:
"delet-" is Latin - past participle of  delere "blot out, efface"
"Remedium" is Latin for medicine which is close to the "Remedis"
"Corruptus" is Latin - past participle of  corrumpere "break completely" & rumpere "to break"
"Interrupt" is Latin - past participle of  interrumpere "break apart" & rumpere "to break"
"Ex" is a Latin prefix meaning "out"

Can't say much about a good reputation yet, but I have one Sim who has a bad rep.  When she meets a Sim, her relationship both lifetime and daily are immediately negative.  Also, while not directly interacting, other Sims make a goofy noise and walk away from her like they are scared of her.

The Kim Family and the Kat Family are in occupied lots in the bin.  Cyd is with his dog in the bin, but not in a house.  There is also the Crittur family which is simply two dogs - they are not in a house either.

(Edited to add Crittur family)

I like selzi's new defaults.  Although, I would mix them up a bit.  They look great, but I don't think that they offer a lot of variety.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=250376

She has an older set of defaults as well.  I believe that they are linked in Zazazu's thread that was provided by jesslla.