I took a visit over to NVidia's website and re-downloaded its lastest driver. I went back in my game, and the sim's faces are still rolling around this heads with gorged out eye balls... which leads me to believe that I already had the lastest driver installed from them.

I should make a horror movie of this.

How do you roll back to your original driver that came with the computer? Does anyone know the instructions...?

I tried to install the fix for my NVidia card from Dell, but when installing, it said I had to create a folder because it doesn't exist? Is that because I have a new driver which I download from Nvidia, not dell?


ALSO



Ok. Something funny is happening with my graphic's card. SATAN'S SPAWN... It freaking scary and screwing with me D:<

Sorry for the double post. ACK!


If I did that, is there any bad outcomes. I.E. would things still slow down? Am I better off not doing this?

Because right now, even with smooth edges set on MAX.. it is slow as hell--REALLY SLOW (zooming in and out with the camera, and a sim's genreal movement)...AND I can still see a lot of jaggered edges. ... Which defeats the point...



Right now my Anisotrophic filtering is set to 8X (Crispness of textures)
And my Antialiasing settings are 4X (Handles smooth edges) ... I guess it is maxed out already D: wthhh..

No, you're right. I shouldn't expect it to be perfect, but I can at least except a new computer not to give me that crazy Blue Screen error, right?

Processor- AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3200+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.0GHz
Memory- 1022MB RAM


How does that look?



Which Driver SHOULD (as is, the best, updated one) I really be using for a NVidia GeForce 7300 LE? Maybe its the driver I'm using that sucks.I tried updating it three times already and all its doing is replacing the old errors with new ones. ):


EDIT: Should I download and install ALL of those fixes (that applies, of course) that you linked me too? That's extreme... Should I install the nVidia SMBus fix since I have a nVidia card? Or it doesn't work that way?

(Thank you for all the replies, everyone. I'm really learning a lot as I go. Each and everyone of you are really informative.)

Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it. (:

A lot of the tec. information DID go over my head though.  I'm not really computer savvy, needless to say.
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I just don't understand why I have to go through all of this with a five month old computer.  I don't necessarily want to fix anything, more like replace it.

I was sick and tired of my old computer formulating errors, so I bought a new one. Oddly enough, my old computer ran a hellva lot better and its graphic card and storage capacity was older/lower.

Can someone explain to me what points I should bring up in my complaints about the graphic card & blue screen? Or what questions I should have answered? I plan to call Dell tomorrow and hopefully get somewhere.

Urgh. I hate being needy like this.

Might be in the wrong forum...? I apologize if so.
I'm anxious for answers from people who actually know what they are talking about.  ):

This past christmas I purchased a Dell Dimension E521. An ok computer made for gaming/dowloading. It came with an 256MB PCI ExpressTM NVIDIA GeForce 7300LE TurboCache, which I believe the version is causing that infamous 'Blue Screen death'. (Correct me if I'm wrong)


1. Is the card glitchy? (I really know nothing about it, other than it doesn't run TS2 well :/) Does anyone have it and like it?

2. Should I have bought the 256MB ATI X1300 Pro instead (came as the other choice)? Is it better than NVidia? Out of all cards which are the better, trusting brand, Radeon, Nvidia, etc.?

3. What is the BEST card to run with my computer? I run TS2 with all settings high for the most part, the game set it that way. However, I have to turn the Shaders off (otherwise my screen would freeze blue) and turn down the smooth edges close to none (To stop the camera lagging). Which card will help me run my game quick with speed, all settings high, SHADERS enabled with smooth edges at medium? Is that possible


:/ A lot of questions, I know...

Were we supose to add our own templates after using the 'Empty' template? Which I didn't do, btw. Otherwise I messed up somehow because CAS and Bodyshop crash everytime I try to load either one. Which makes sense, in a way.

Thank you for the advice. I'll nudge this topic again if it doesn't work. (:

NVidia, of course. Stupid card.

This scared me shitless, here's a screen cap.




This makes NO sense! I was playing the game, fooled around with boolprop by spawning things, after I forced a second set of twins and had 11 sims on a lot (which I didn't have a hack to enable me to have more than the maxium number per house hold) the game slowed. I got the first error message on the bottom, then after I tried restaring the game, I got the top!

Is there something wrong with my computer now? Did I FRY it?

Ah, I get it, although I never noticed a lag when I was testing months back. But then again, it was a while ago.
Now that it has been mentioned, I'm surprised no one created a lighting system soley based on different shades of light during different times.
Like sunset, sunrise (all of which can be found in this mod) and for the hell of it, add the waves to the pool too. That would be amazing eyecandy without the darkness holding you back. Know?

If I knew how to mess around with the nitty gritty parts of the game, that would be one of the first things I would try to figure, despite lacking a good attention span.

So which lighting system is better? You're saying the original Maxis?
At this point i'm just confused about which one to use. ):

But would  Chocolate Pi's mod mess up any codes for the native shaders?

I was wondering..  could Chocolate Pi's mod and your native shaders work together in the game? Is it possible? (to get the waves to appear ingame)

Whoa, sweet update. The children look, well--normal. Wonderful job.
And yeah, I undersand, but thank you for considering the adjustment with the eyes. The nose isn't an actally big deal, when the eyes are tweaked a bit bigger, evyerthign should balence out.

The child template actually looks like she related the the above generation.
The toddler's face looks great too, I love the defined jawline and how the face in general looks smooth. No weird sag lines or puffy areas.

I simply adore all of these replacements. Will--without a doubt--download. One of the only modification that I dislike is #08 both the male and female's eyes are far too small and nose too wide. (This was about the only template that I would use from Maxis, giving that most of the features were one of the most decent looking ones)

Please consider.


I'll love you for that! Please do so.

Thank you. (However, does it matter that it was installed when I don't own OFB or FFS?)

And lastly, the native shaders do not support the realtime specular, such has the waves, right?

Shit. For some reason I can't find the file to put this in (Yes, go on, point and laugh).

Its not under my documents. (Gumod had an Auto install, that's how I got away with it the first time)

Could you give me a step by step install?

Jesus, I may sound very dumb, I'm sorry for pain this may, and probably will cause. :/