Anyone has the bug in which sims who returned from boarding school cannot get a normal job? Professions still work, but anything rabbithole-bound simply shows no options to join a career there. The newspaper and computer also don't show these options.

^I have the patch installed with the non-updated crack, so I think it's fine.

I did crash once, and my options refuses to open. But other then that, it's seemingly alright.

But when I told my family to move out there were two options on the Moving screen. Sell or Pack objects. Sell was checked, and Pack was grayed out. I seriously have to move all objects to inventory to Pack them?

I played it for some hours, and while I have no issues with the sims, or the gameplay, I do have some concerns regarding the graphics. I have an nvidia 8600 videocard with 512 mb memory and inspite of the fact that all settings were on high and gameplay was smooth, the textures look very blurry and pixelated, especially on close-ups. Even the sims's skins. Also, I noticed that from a normal play camera height, texture details go missing. I made a sim with red and white polka dots shoes and the dots were visible only when I viewed them in extreme close-up. I also have an issue with the dark shadows on the objects. I tried to make *white* towels but the result was more like dirty white towels. And the same thing happened with the curtains, the bedsheets, the leather couch that's also in sims2.  And the indoors lightning seems to suffer from the same drawback as the radiance lightning mod for sims2. The objects near the light source glow and appear overexposed while those a few squares away are very dark. Maybe I don't play enough games to make a reasonable comparison of what is realistically achievable in terms of technology, but I find these issues very annoying, especially when we had very beautiful clean textures in Sims2 and the lightning was good even though it was not realistic. Maybe it's an issue with my card, or maybe it's just the way the game renders objects. But if that's the case I don't think it should render objects with lower quality when you're inside the lot. It's very annoying because things seem hazy.

Okay, it's P&L at phyllis time (suddenly I have an image of a dancing banana).  Be gentle, though, because I'm an ARRRR virgin.  (Hmm.  That really gets weird since it followed the banana reference).  Ahem .. anyway .....


So ... I've never, to my knowledge) mounted anything (gah! More sexual innuendo!), so I'll stick with the disk.  So, we actually unRAR the files, burn them to disk, then install from disk.  (Seems clunky, but I'll not question why it must be done this way).  Do we then have to use the disk whenever we play?  Or, if we do the following, does that eliminate the need for using the disk beyond install?


And if we do the above, do we do it before copying to the disk and installing, or after?  It seems like you're saying "before," Big Fish, but I'm a nervous and uncertain F and want to be sure.  Also, if I do the above, does that eliminate the game trying to phone home, or is it better just to disconnect from the internet before playing?

I feel ultra dumb, and I almost sent this by PM, but I figure that if someone answers, many will benefit.

I have a few questions for those that have the game:

I plan on upgrading my computer this week. My system currently has: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz, 2.0 GB RAM, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (Build Service Pack 32600), NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT (GeForce 8600 GT) with 256 MB of video RAM, and 183.8 GB free on my hard drive. I'm adding a GB of RAM to bring me up to 3 GB of RAM and max out my useful RAM under XP but what I am really looking for is video card recommendations since I've heard it's not just video RAM I should be looking at.

I come from TSR where this question is always answered with "AJDSLDSJF JUST DON'T DO IT DON'T TOUCH IT STUPID WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU DON'T TOUCH HER YOU BLEW UP THE UNIVERSE OH MY GOD WEDSLFSDFAA."

My apologies, I misunderstood the problem.

Guess I could've been clearer too. ^^

I think I have the same problem the OP has: in apartments, once a neighbor becomes invisible because it entered its home, it will not return visible when goes to work or exits its apartment for any reason: simply it remains invisibile forever.
I have to constantly click on the "fix invisible neighbors" of the lot debugger if I don't want my playables interact with ghosts and spirits only. I didn't a binary search, 'cause I haven't played apartments a lot, but if I find the culprit I'll post.

This is intentional on EAxis' part. Whenever you play an apartment (even if the other neighbors are playable) you will only be able to see the family you are currently playing. If you want to visit them and have a decent enough relationship with that family, click on their door and choose "knock". You will then be able to see inside their apartment as long as you're visiting them.

You keep using that word; I do not think it means what you think it means.
Invincible==indestructable.
Invisible==unable to be seen.

As to your problem, I cannot help you, as I have not played with apartments yet.