I've been playing the sims 3 since it was released. I have two copies (registered at ea) and my two game machines have an 1GB DDR5 Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4890 XOC , Ruby Edition and a DIAMOND ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 PCIE 2048MB GDDR5 Video Card. I've been having video problems with the foliage being a big square graphics block with day-glo brilliant fuzz coloring. My characters have hair that looks like it is always transparent. So what you see only in the normal intensity is the skull cap Maxis defaults to or something. For some reason the braided hair and the side pony tails that hang over the shoulders in front worked okay. I've gone backwards in driver release numbers. No help. Last night I up graded to the ATI 9.8's since the release notes do discuss a Sims 3 menu fix issue. upon install completion the video display was back to 640x480 (i haven't seen ATI wipe the 1900x1200 16:10 screen resolution in many moons) I was hopeful.  Then after the subsequent reboot, I fired off the Sims 3. the sims 3 was now 640x480. I went into options to adjust back to 1900x1200 16:10. Maxis popped me up a window and wanted a decision about edge scrolling on or off. I clicked on on . The Sims 3 game came up just fine. Every hair was in place on every character and displayed properly. Each and every tree displayed in the proper resolution. cool beans !! I played for a while (couple of hours) then saved out the game. Rebooted, and went back into the Sims 3. There was the hair and tree corruption !! drat ! So I went back into options and clicked off the edge scrolling. poof ! Game back to displaying hair and trees correctly. go figure. I don't really care about edge scrolling since Final Fantasy XI doesn't really use it. SO I figure I just need to toggle between edge scrolling on if it is off, and off if it is on. I could most likely just toggle twice to where edge scrolling is back on. Strangest problem I've seen ATI have with their video cards. I would suggest it you have these kinds of ATI video problems then just try toggling edge scrolling on/off on earlier versions on the ATI video drivers. ( i am certainly not going to install a previous version to check this out LOL). This last night after reading the various forums about ATI and Sims 3 around the known internet galaxy. oh yeah, I downloaded that free town from the maxis website. I don't see that anywhere in the main town selection screen. Hope this helps, ** no fate **   dracman http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html

Dr. Richard Cranium < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message oh yeah, I downloaded that free town from the maxis website. I don't see that anywhere in the main town selection screen. Did you install it?  You download and then have to install.  Or at least I did. Best wishes maxon

Dr. Richard Cranium < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message oh yeah, I downloaded that free town from the maxis website. I don't see that anywhere in the main town selection screen. Did you install it?  You download and then have to install.  Or at least I did. Best wishes maxon I thought I did do the install after. I see it in both downloads and installed menus. I will go try to install again. I should see it right there where my/maxis default town is ? (my savegames listed in the startup menu). I'll try to re install after work tonight. Thanks in advance, ** no fate **     dracman ................................................................         Posted via TITANnews - Uncensored Newsgroups Access                   at http://www.TitanNews.com <<<< -=Every Newsgroup - Anonymous, UNCENSORED, BROADBAND Downloads=-

I thought I did do the install after. I see it in both downloads and installed menus. I will go try to install again. I should see it right there where my/maxis default town is ? (my savegames listed in the startup menu). I'll try to re install after work tonight. Thanks in advance, ** no fate **    dracman You won't see it anywhere in the save games. Like Sunset Valley, Riverside is a template. So you need to click on the big cross / plus sign to add a new town and it will be one of the options in the pull-down menu. Cheers! Engram

  Dr. Richard Cranium < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in message   I've been playing the sims 3 since it was released.   I have two copies (registered at ea) and my two game machines   have an 1GB DDR5 Diamond ATI Radeon HD 4890 XOC , Ruby Edition   and a DIAMOND ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 PCIE 2048MB GDDR5 Video Card.   I've been having video problems with the foliage being a big square graphics block with day-glo brilliant fuzz coloring.   My characters have hair that looks like it is always transparent.   So what you see only in the normal intensity is the skull cap Maxis defaults to or something.   For some reason the braided hair and the side pony tails that hang over the shoulders in front worked okay.   I've gone backwards in driver release numbers. No help. Last night I up graded to the   ATI 9.8's since the release notes do discuss a Sims 3 menu fix issue.   upon install completion the video display was back to 640x480   (i haven't seen ATI wipe the 1900x1200 16:10 screen resolution in many moons) I was hopeful.    Then after the subsequent reboot, I fired off the Sims 3.   the sims 3 was now 640x480. I went into options to adjust back to 1900x1200 16:10.   Maxis popped me up a window and wanted a decision about edge scrolling on or off.   I clicked on on .   The Sims 3 game came up just fine.   Every hair was in place on every character and displayed properly. Each and every tree displayed in the proper resolution.   cool beans !!   I played for a while (couple of hours) then saved out the game.   Rebooted, and went back into the Sims 3. There was the hair and tree corruption !! drat !   So I went back into options and clicked off the edge scrolling. poof ! Game back to displaying hair and trees correctly.   go figure. I don't really care about edge scrolling since Final Fantasy XI doesn't really use it.   SO I figure I just need to toggle between edge scrolling on if it is off, and off if it is on. I could most likely just toggle twice to where edge scrolling is back on.   Strangest problem I've seen ATI have with their video cards. I would suggest it you have these kinds of ATI video problems then just try toggling edge scrolling on/off on earlier versions on the ATI video drivers. ( i am certainly not going to install a previous version to check this out LOL).   This last night after reading the various forums about ATI and Sims 3 around the known internet galaxy.   oh yeah, I downloaded that free town from the maxis website. I don't see that anywhere in the main town selection screen.   Hope this helps,   ** no fate **     dracman   http://www.smokeypoint.com/My_PC.htm   http://www.smokeypoint.com/walleweb/wall-E.html   Hello me,   Well last night try as i might, i could not get the corruption to go away (as mentioned above) using the edge scroll checkbox - drat EVEN with pushing on the checkbox with my finger (some might say.. that was a poke). LOL. Guess i do not have a touch screen.   Okay, so I found that THIS TIME Mr. ATI, or Mr. Maxis

Have you been having any of the other problems with Sims 3? Have you been reading the posts and threads here about Sims 3 ugly problems?