Thanks for the help Rose, very helpful. My search didn't turn that up.

I would like to begin to weed out any high polygon meshes that I may have, is there a program to check polygons? What is the level that denotes a low/high polygon count? Does anyone know what creators create meshes with low poly counts? Thanks

Lambi....Thanks for the link to the guide, very helpful!
Lordrichter....I do like to play big lots so thats something I will keep in mind. I do have a fairly extensive collection of custom hair meshes so maybe I may need to do some purging there too.
Thanks to all who have reponded. I am purchasing a new laptop and it has 2000MB RAM with an Nvidia Go 7300 256MB card and the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and I am hoping to run the Sims2 with all EPs. At least now I know what to do if I have to adjust for graphic performance.

Thanks so much for the advice people. My resolution is already at 1024x768 not sure I want to go to 800x600. I have set my shadows to 'off' and my texture detail and graphics effects to medium. Seems a bit smoother now and I will see how it goes.

Hello, I would like to tweak my in game graphics settings in order to hopefully prevent a little choppiness. Right now all my settings are on high and I have an ATI Radeon X700 256MB; 1000MB RAM. I don't want to touch the graphics card settings themselves, just the in game sims settings. Where is the best place to begin? With smooth edges? With shadows? I am wanting to do as little as possible and do it gradually in order to see a gradual improvement. I like to have the mirrors reflect since its more realistic but maybe I don't need all the shadow detail. Any opinions? Thanks, Tracy

Thanks for all the input people. Much appreciated. I figure I will purchase it and the price at $1100 canadian is probably the best I am going to find at this point. Merry Christmas everyone!!

I have been looking at a laptop recently and hope to play Sims 2 with all EPs on it. Tell me what you guys think of the specs. My biggest concern is the Geforce card, is it good enough for TS2? Thanks

Acer Aspire 5630
Intel Centrino Core Duo 1.66 GHZ
120 GB Hard Drive
2 GB of dual-channel DDR2 RAM
NVIDIA® GeForce Go 7300 256 MB

Thanks Venusy, I didn't realize that. It would be nice if it worked for cars also. Appreciate the response. Tracy

I thought it was the phone hack that allowed for a dialogue menu to pop up so you could choose who could go to town. This morning I clicked 'multiple sims' in the dialogue and everyone including the dog piled into the car. Shouldn't I have gotten a dialogue asking 'is Bozo going?' 'is Bozo's wife going?' Do I have the proper hack for this? Thanks

Does Inge's 'staythings' shrub still work with OFB?

Thanks people. I did try moving the house to 'higher ground' but that proved ineffective. Seems I will have to accept it as it is. My family's basement is flooded and no one in the 'hood has a pump. Sometimes life just sucks!

As you can see by the attached pic, the basement of my sim home is flooded. I tried removing it with the pool tool but that doesn't work. It was not like this when I put the objects down there. What happened and how do I fix it? Any help appreciated. Thanks Tracy

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v684/braveheart343/?action=view&current=FloodedBasement.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1 

Thanks for the advice people. I will try the lot debugger I suppose although I tend to be a little nervous about using that thing.

Could someone tell me what thumbnail file I delete in order to refresh all my sims' pics on the UI in the game? Thanks

Thanks for the explanation jsalemi. I have one more question if you or someone could answer for me please. What causes 'squiggly lines' in speech bubbles?

What 'no repawn hacks' are available and are they all compatable with OFB? Is preventing the spawning of townies, downtownies, etc. the best way to prevent the BFBVFS? Thanks

Issy's solution worked. Thank you so much.

Tried deleting the Groups.cache with no success. I will now try Issy's solution and will see if that works. Thanks for all your help again people. I will let you know if Issy's idea works.

Hi KittKitt,
  It seems to be an issue only in the one house.

I have a sim that is unable to clear empty dinner plates. The only option available to the sim is to 'Lick Clean'. I used the stuck object remover on the plate but all subsequent plates are still not able to be cleaned up. I even removed my whole hack folder and went in and tried again. Still stuck.Any help appreciated.

I have recently had a number of first generation sims die. I have moved all of their tombstones to a graveyard that is a community lot. Will these dead sims come out at night as ghosts if I send a sim to the community graveyard at night? Do the dead sims haunt community lots?

Thanks people. The gravedigger sim sounds like the best option, I will go ahead.

The last sim on a lot died of old age. I want to move her gravestone to the cemetary to be with her husband but I cannot enter live mode in order to click on the urn and get the' move grave' option. Anyone able to help me with this? Thanks

Could someone clarify for me what the difference is between the ATI drivers and the 'modified omega versions'. Thanks

What version are you using now Brynne?