Neighborhood terrain textures first black, then blurred

[graphico]

I wanted to split up my active household, moving out one adult and one teenager, and leaving two adults in the house. The game froze (there was a little pop-up that said "processing", which sat there for about half an hour), and I had to exit to windows and manually end the program with the task manager.

The game still runs fine, but when I first start playing a game, the entire neighborhood is black - there is no terrain paint. When I go to map mode, the terrain paints slowly appear, but are very blurry. If I then go back into my Sims' houses, the entire terrain (grass, rocks, roads) stays blurred - also the default terrain where it shows on their lots. Any terrain paints that I use to paint on their lots are fine. I have tried playing around with the graphics settings, with no success.

The three adventure destinations (China, Egypt and France) have the same blurry textures.

I have a nVidia 9500GT with 1GB memory on the card. Before this happened, everything was fine.

[Simsample]

Does it still happen if you delete your caches and World Caches, then start a new game?

[graphico]

I am sorry, but to my embarassment I find that I am unbelievably stupid. How do I delete the "caches and World Caches"?

[Simsample]

Go to Documents\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3.
Delete the files CASPartCache.package, compositorCache.package, scriptCache.package and simCompositorCache.package.
Also delete all of the files that are in the Documents\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3\ WorldCaches folder.

The game will regenerate these files afresh when you start the game, so that we can test whether your problem is caused by corruption in these files.

[graphico]

I deleted all of the files as instructed. However, I have no WorldCaches folder to delete. I restarted the game. No success.

A friend suggested that I delete the options.ini file. I did that and restarted. Success! All the neighborhood textures are back to normal.

Thank you for the help. I am attaching a screenshot of the blurry textures for future reference.

[J. M. Pescado]

Let me guess, you set the graphical settings to "crap", and deleting options.ini, therefore, reset them back to default.