I tried giving the aliens a ship using Master Controller and Buy debug.  They appear to be keeping the ship now and no new aliens have spawned. But I haven't seen any abductions at this point.

I have Buzzler's Moar Interactions and the test awesome mod. I have never had a meteor shower since I began playing The Sims 3. So I don't think it's that mod.

The glow doesn't really bother me. I only really notice it when I'm zoomed all the way out to birds eye view most of the time.

I find it depends on the lighting you have in your homes. Also that day time lighting  is more harsh. If you properly light your home then you will have almost perfect CAS lighting. My computer is just a run of the mill rig from 2007 and I find I have pretty good pics even with running sim detail on high  and tree/background on low/medium.

I am getting the wish from my Sims to buy a hot tub. While I am up to the latest patch with the current updated mods and current updated awesome mod I do not actually have Late Night. Of course I cancel the wishes but it's kind of stupid for them to wish for something we don't have and they should not be aware of considering I do not actually have late night yet.

Without a doubt creepy. But this whole forum is creepily endearing anyway. Not to mention this thread turned to be beneficial as I didn't know we didn't need Rez Delnava's CAS UI  5x10 Double Slider with the Awesome Sauce. With that  I will now go back into my cave. Carry on!

Legal and the only problems I had were my own Brain Cheese getting the better of me. I had forgotten I had a camera hack in. Once I had the new version of awesome mod things went swimmingly

Your mods have worked for me in the past. I am sure that once the new awesome storymode is ready I'll be going back to just awesome. Besides I'm terribly lazy and I really only want to come here to update my game. I think most of us are just biding our time with Indiestone till yours comes out.

Hrmm I have a male and female sim couple where the Male sim is the oldest in the family by a couple days. Mom dropped baby on the floor so dad could cake the baby.

I've experienced the wish rolling right after that type action is performed as well. I've not played many couples but the one couple that I married off rolled one want to have a child. Since then they roll the want to woohoo nearly every night but so far no more baby wishes. They also generally want to have romantic actions towards each other. One has the "great kisser" trait and the other is "Flirty" so that might be part of what is causing it.

I thought it was weird 

I just noticed a bizarre little nuance to the game. I sent my female Sim to the spa a few hours prior to going to work. The Spa treatment was set to end after my sim should have already hauled ass to work.  When it came time for her to be at work the car came to her home even though she was at the spa. It honked for a few minutes .

Amusingly the work tones queued up in her orders. For all appearances it appeared  that she was at work and at the spa at the same time. Once her time at the spa ended a taxi came and took her to work. She finished her shift and appeared to be paid for the whole shift.  She even received her raise fro completing the opportunity and other things that I had been working toward with her.  I would have expected some sort of penalty for being a hour late but apparently this does not occur.  I wonder if this would happen again if I sent a sim to a class or something either prior to going to work.

I don't normally spam my Sims here however the macro about not having a pony made me think of this shot.

I patched my game with awesomemodnstalled. I did get the mysterious start up crash of doom! on first load up but now it's working properly. My speed three problems seem to be corrected as well which is nice.

My Geforce Graphics card is a 7100 model  which I presume is lower than yours model wise. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to run it but I haven't had any problems. I have even set a couple of the graphic settings set to high. Not all of them mostly Sim Details and such. Once in a great the window goes black for a moment. (not my entire monitor but the windowed sims3 session. But it's not often enough to even be annoying. I'd post my specs but that would be redundant as I have a thread kicking round here somehwhere.

I am going to get the Sims 3 retail version on Friday. Pirate Cat I am not. Bit of a wuss here.  From what I've read it looks like I"ll be ok. I fine my system specs by going to my control panel in vista.

The difference between the dual and a regular processor has been rather confusing for me.  I think I may give it a go after all then. I just didn't want to buy the silly thing and then for it to not run a all. I don't care if I have to have it on low settings for a while. I'm rather attached to my Sims 2 hood so I don't really plan to pack up Sims 2 for a while yet anyway. I still would like to not wait 4 years to play the Sims 3 like I did with Sims 2.

That really bites. I wish I had waited until the specifications had come out. Well, Thanks anyway.

I bet everyone is sick of this question. However I'm going to ask anyway Nyah . I used to be better at this systems requirements crap but it appears since I joined the working world. Retail has rotted my brain. If anyone could help this silly cow out and look over my system specs I'd appreciate it.

My hope is that  Sims 3 would run on my crap-tastic  computer if I update the graphics card. I'm disappointed because I just bought this bloody thing a year ago. I know the graphic card needs to be updated but I'm still worried. I'm OK with the graphics not being perfect I just want to be able to play it without crashing.

I've been trying to "read moar" as far as the requirements go. I used to be up on this stuff when I was in highs school. I know my graphics card is sub-par and I plan to get a new one. However I wonder about the rest of it. It's the 1.80GHz  processor speed that concerns me the most. I did read in the specifications thoguh that 1.80 is ok for a integrated graphics card. The pathetic thing is I don't know the difference between a non intergrated and intergrated. I would imagine that integrated means it goes onto the mother board. I guess it's back to google for me.

Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz 4.8 3.0

Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB 4.6
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i 3.4
Gaming graphics 830 MB Total available graphics memory 3.0
Primary hard disk 387GB Free (456GB Total) 5.7
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium

System   
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  Manufacturer HP-Pavilion
  Model KJ387AA-ABA a6403w
  Total amount of system memory 2.00 GB RAM
  System type 32-bit operating system
  Number of processor cores 2
  64-bit capable Yes

 
Graphics   
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  Display adapter type NVIDIA GeForce 7100 / NVIDIA nForce 630i
  Total available graphics memory 830 MB
        Dedicated graphics memory 128 MB
        Dedicated system memory 0 MB
        Shared system memory 702 MB
  Display adapter driver version 7.15.11.7521
  Primary monitor resolution 1680x1050
  Secondary monitor resolution 1680x1050
  DirectX version DirectX 9.0 or better


 

I've not had any problems with Vista and my downloads folder. It is a peculiar operating system, of course I consider anything other than ME a step up. ME was completely rubbish. I can't really comment on XP versus Vista only because I struggled along on Windows ME for 7 years. Now, I shall back away slowly before the gasps of horror begin. Generally my body shop takes FOREVER to load. But I'd imagine that has something to do with my scary downloads folder that I'm currently trying to organize.  The M&G Body Shop is the one I use, I keep a short cut to it on my desk top so I don't accidentally chose the wrong one.