Alright, I'll try it again, but I've had the camera focused on this same sim and his computer for a while, just booting it up and then deciding to close it down again.

But when that happens, doesn't it usually show the mesh, albeit grey and without the texture?

A few days ago, i updated AwesomeMod, and forgot to enable SupCom in the config file. After I loaded the game, I remembered, and I closed it immediately. Yesterday, I made a new config file, and also installed Indie Stone's story progression mod. then, when I booted the game up, I found my sim at the computer, typing away, but the computer wasn't there. The shadows under the keyboard and the monitor were there, but no computer mesh. Was this just a stray bug, or is there something wrong with my game?

Oh. I was kind of afraid to update, because i had heard about that strange stuck-spawning thing with deaths and tombstones.

I was playing TS3 yesterday, playing a household of three, with two of them set on SupCom (one was working on mechanical skill, and the other was idling... I think). Almost immediately after setting all that up, I got distracted by some sparkly-shiny flash game and completely forgot that the Sims was running.so an hour or so passes, and i go to shut the computer down, and i see this:



As you can see, something didn't work right. Is it still safe to boot up TS3, or should i reinstall the game? If I'm overreacting, then if nothing else, this is a glitch report.



Also, completely random, unrelated question: is there some sort of stock image site for images like the ones Pescado makes and posts here? I swear that some of those pics he posts he makes up on the spot.

OSHI-

I have to hear more of this neighborhood. That is pure comedy.

I see what you mean, JBoat. actually, Indie Stone's mod was exactly the one I was thinking of. i hope Pescado and Indie wil be able to pull it off.

I've looked everywhere I can think of, and I can't find any information about this. I know that AwesomeMod is a core mod, and that it's incompatable with other core mods. I've heard that there is a mod in the works that will allow multiple core mods to coexist peacefully, but I can't find any information on it. Am I looking for the wrong term, is there no information as of yet, or is there no planned mod for this at all?

If this is the case, then why does SupCom have them fill motives when they're half-full? If I remember correctly, it a problem in TS2 when that happened; why is it suddenly a problem now?

i heard cannabis mentioned, so i figured i'd make a suggestion: MOAR HUNGER. not nessicarily a depletion of hunger, but an increase in appetite--is that possible to do already, or is there more work that has to be done before an appetite mod can happen like that? i imagine it would have to do with the AI and being complicated.

I just updated my driver, and the stadium problem is solved. There's a new glitch, though: when i save (it might just be when i save and quit, or just when i quit), the screen fills up with this striped gradient-like thing (that's an articaft, right?). i have the newest driver for my card now, so is this because of my graphics card, or is it the game itself being borked?

that reminds me of something a relative of mine said:


 before he found out he had lung cancer.

also, the phrase 'nightmare fuel' is just a bit scary, especially considering they're live dogs. do they burn them, or butcher and process them?

I'm not very good with hardware, and determinating which ones are useful, and whatnot, so I probably overshot what I needed by a bit, lol.

I get the green vector things, too. I actually haven't updated my drivers, yet, so I don't know yet if that's the problem, but I will do that asap. I can't do anything about the graphics card, though... two hundred bucks for a new one is too much, unless i can get one for less.

i haven't had much of a problem with balancing in the motives, although it's true--there are some important ones that should have been added, that weren't. injuries, anyone?


that makes a lot of sense; the sims, or the sims 2 at least, is a depression simulator. the social bunny, the crying and irritability (awesomemod's lesswhiny option comes to mind), and the constant fighting (i had one family spend two sim days, with motive cheats on, doing nothing but getting into fights. the husband lost his job) all seem like symptoms of depression.

basically the glitch looks like that, except there's more of it, and it's all over the screen, not just in the corners (i was wrong ^^). My graphics card is an Intel GMA 3100... i think. i found that under Chip Type in dxdiag; is that right?



i'm updating my drivers now; i'll see if that fixes anything.

This has happened with a couple of other venues, I think, but it's most prominent with the sports stadium. Whenever the sports stadium is on camera, these strange triangles appear, coming out of the corner of the screen, flickering and changing shape and color. If I go to map view, they go away. I haven't been able to get a shot of them, because they freak me out (because i'm a total retard :d), but i will if I can. Any ideas?