high texture detail, crappy clothes details

[linolino]

look at this picture:


If you look at the floor, wall, and furniture, you'd say i'm using high texture details (wich I AM!)
So why does the clothes look so crappy? every clothe in the game is like this.
Anybody else having this problem?

[pixiejuice]

This happens to me sometimes too.  Usually when there's a lot going on, or I'm playing a big or crowded lot, or if I try to use a bigger view distance.  I think it's the graphics card downgrading a little because it can't handle it all.  Mine goes back to normal though as soon as I load a less demanding lot.

[linolino]

no, i don't think this is what's happening in my game. the clothes are like this all the time.

this is a test lot of a test neighborhood. so there is no one in the neighborhood but this family, that lives in a small lot, in a very simple house, with very few objects....

Also, the clothes are like this even in the CAS

[bowrain]

Some of the male H&M clothes appeared like that too in my game, even in CAS. But that particular outfit you posted there looks fine in my game...

[J. M. Pescado]

It looks like it has been washed too many times. Does it look like that in SimPE?

[Brynne]

I "randomly" had this problem back on my old laptop, and the texture of the blurred clothes would appear a bit better on a lower graphics setting. It was very frustrating. The grass was blurry, some of the clothing (but not all!) was blurry, and objects were clear as day. There was a thread about it here a long time ago, but I don't think anyone ever came up with a real answer. Sometimes rebooting would clear it up for me, but the problem would still sporadically occur. 

Edit:

Yes, it's been posted here, and I posted pics from when it was happening in my game in this thread.

(Heh - OT, that's when I had a weird resolution, and all my sims looked wide. I thought they looked "normal" back then. I play those same sims, still, and they're much thinner on my mac. )

[J. M. Pescado]

You need to set your in-game resolution to something that is proportional with your actual screen aspect ratio, or else everything will end up looking warped.

[Marhis]

I have the same problem, random, with Seasons and the computer change, from iMac G5 to MacIntel. I blame the video card.

[Brynne]

You need to set your in-game resolution to something that is proportional with your actual screen aspect ratio, or else everything will end up looking warped.

Well, I haven't had the problem on the macbook pro. I just had to get used to seeing my sims as they were supposed to look. 

I also haven't had the blurry clothes issue since the laptop I had when I made those posts back in 2006. That was a HP zv5240us or something like that. It had an Ati Radeon 9000, which was crap. After that, I got a Winbook with an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 with 128 dedicated, and had no issues with blurry clothes. The card in my mac is pretty good, so I'm guessing the blurry-clothes issue I had was because of my crapola graphics card back then? 

[J. M. Pescado]

Blurry textures could be the result of your graphics card running out of resources, yes. I've never seen it, though.

[Brynne]

Well, considering the card was weak and my cc folder was not...I'm thinking the card lost the fight. And I had overheating issues with that machine, as well. Not a good gaming rig.

[Havelock]

Your Card could not handle your Game. I have made a similar Picture. Look at the bedding and compare yours. Btw its a Beach Lot where i made the Pic. More to render for my Card.

[reese]

I had the same problem on my laptop - the Sim's face looked fine, the clothes were weird. Then the faces started going blurry too, if I used too much makeup or certain eyes. Then I was also starting to see artifacts in-game and eventually they showed up with other programs, like just web browsing. I just upgraded to a spiffy new desktop, and none of this happens. New video card? 

[linolino]

Yeah.. its a shame though.. i didn't think my pc wouldn't be capable of rendering good textures in a lot so empty.

I have a Radeon X600 XT and 1 GB RAM, 3.0 GHZ ATHLON 64 . i thought that was enough.. bleh!!!

I have seen that a few times (mostly when i just started the game) the textures are rendered well, few minutes after and it is alll blurred...

BTW, i loved the re-build of my picture!!! when i saw it i thought: what the.. hahahaha.. very good!

[Zazazu]

The card you have should be fine, linolino. That's what my old card was, and it could do high everything. Actually, I think I had an almost identical setup. Rammage is low, though. Not awful, and honestly it shouldn't effect the textures. What's your display memory set at?

[dizzy]

You have Windows XP? Maybe you just have a crappy version of the display driver?

[linolino]

windows xp, just updated the dispay drivers, 256 video memory!!
i dont know why my game is like this. i'll format my pc and reinstall everything later. my xp is kinda buggy

[Havelock]

1 GB RAM is not so mutch for the Game especially with all settings on high. I would suggest to get more Ram it would help because half of the Ram is used by XP and other Applications.

[jolrei]

I run Radeon X300 (PCI built into the board) and 1Gig RAM (P4 3Ghz) and my system runs incomprehensibly well for TS2.  I run with all settings high except shadows are set to medium.  This successfully deals with any lag I might have had after installing BV.  I never noticed any display issues.  My point, if I have one, is that you can try twiddling with some settings that make negligible obvious changes in the look of the game, but may pay off by freeing resources.

[angelyne]

I had this problem once and I found this information : http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?t=97876

And that fixed my problem