Invisible Fish Poll

[ZephyrZodiac]

I think so much depends on the doctors - if I don't go, they don't seem to care, really, and I tend to get the feeling they don't care much when I do go, so I've rather given up with doctors in general.

[DrBeast]

Just for the sake of this poll, I plopped down a fish tank yesterday. Fish were there. Look nice too. Might keep a fish tank in the future. 
I have a Radeon 9600 Pro w. 256MB RAM, running with Omega drivers which I conveniently forgot to note down! 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, you won't have invisible fish, then!  Make sure you keep the tank nice and clean, and don't over or under-feed them!  (Sometimes sims get a fear that the fish will die!)

[DrBeast]

I'm more concerned about the maid's behavior. I dunno if that perpetual fish-tank cleaning thing has been resolved.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, if you use macro-clean on one of your sims first, they'll clean the tank, so she won't have to.  But I haven't found a problem.

[DrBeast]

Heh, if I use macro...clean, what's the point of hiring a maid? 

[ZephyrZodiac]

Not a lot, especially if you have the expensive one   My sims are paying over 50 simoleons for the maid to say, Okay, All set up!  (And if she makes a bed, phew!)

[MissDoh]

I'm more concerned about the maid's behavior. I dunno if that perpetual fish-tank cleaning thing has been resolved.

As far as I know, this problem has been solved since Universtiy.  I did not personally experience it since that EP.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Nor me, but I think it was originally *supposed* to be solved in the base game patch!

[Ancient Sim]

I'm on a totally clean install with a brand new PC and I have the fish.  The card is a rather boring old integrated nVidia GeForce 6100.  I do have a 6600 PCIE one waiting to go in, but I'm too scared to install it in case I start flashing and everyone can see my skeleton, so I will probably have to wait until I can persuade someone else to do it, or put it back on EBay.  With my old PC, I could see them fine until OFB (or the patch, not sure which), then they mysteriously disappeared.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, Ancient, I still haven't patched my game with the OFB patch, and my fish are invisible, so I think it happened with OFB itself.  I suppose it wasn't noticed in time for Maxis to be told about it and do something to put it *right*!

[Ancient Sim]

Has anyone got fish who has the OFB patch?   Maybe that did sort it.  I don't remember looking after I patched my game. Apart from a new lot I installed yesterday, I think Malcolm Landgraab is the only one with a fishtank now so it's not something I notice on a regular basis.  Oh and I forgot to mention, my driver is the very latest one available on the nVidia site.  The one that came with the pc was a slightly earlier 8 version and I got blue screens all the time, with this one I only get one after I've played for several hours.  Trouble is, once I get it the screen starts flashing and I have to leave the game and go back in.  I could sort it at one time by pretending I wanted to change resolution but not actually doing so, but now I can't. 

[DrBeast]

My game is patched, yep

[ZephyrZodiac]

My game isn't, and I don't get blue screens (at least not so far) and I have the latest driver for my card and that's when I noticed the fish, as I said earlier Malcolm's fish were there when I went into his house (before my game pc crashed and I had to get the new driver.

[kacidama]

I can see the fish in my greek house and  (ATI Radeon 9600 - fook knows which drivers but I upgraded them about 6 months ago when NL came out)

I have all the EPs, patched, and the dreaded shopping packs (FF also patched)

[ZephyrZodiac]

I can't be bothered to patch my game at present, I'd have to sort through all my hacks yet again!  And I'll have to do that when the next EP comes out anyway.

[Ness]

My game is patched, and I still have fish - that's all patches, including the FFS patch.

[tlc]

I originally had fish with my nVidia GeForce 5200. They dissappeared when I installed OFB.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Mine were there when I went into the Landgraab house, before I downloaded new drivers.  (Mine's an Nvidia GEForce 5200.)

[innishkea]

I haveNVIDIA Geforce FX 5500
driver 6.14.00.10.8.198

[KellyQ]

No fish with the home computer's video card, Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
Have fish with the work computer's Nvidia GeForce 6800.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Bet you don't have old drivers with your home computer!

[vecki]

No little fishies, left in the sea...
No little fishies, just Londo and me...

(A prize of 1000 benes to the first person to correctly guess that quote )

I have no fishies.

config-log tells me I have the following:

=== Graphics device info ===
Number:          0
Name (driver):   MSI MS-StarForce GeForce FX 5200 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200)
Name (database): GeForceFX 5200
Vendor:          NVIDIA
Chipset:         Vendor: 10de, Device: 0322, Board: 93601462, Chipset: 00a1
Driver:          nv4_disp.dll, Version: 6.14.10.6172, GUID: D7B71E3E-4062-11CF-CE6F-6AB300C2CB35
Driver version:  6172

[jsalemi]

No little fishies, left in the sea...
No little fishies, just Londo and me...

Babylon 5, third season (I think), Londo and G'Kar are trapped in an elevator after an explosion, and that's G'Kar singing...

[vecki]

CONGRATULATIONS!  Your prize of 1000 benes is currently being mailed to you on the slowest boat known to man.  Enjoy them!