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Post by Zilla on Oct 4, 2009 23:48:54 GMT
I'm sorry your game crashed and yeah, I know the feeling. I've been through atleast a handful of times.
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Post by CharlieChomper on Oct 5, 2009 9:15:29 GMT
Beritberry, by any chance does that system have a nVidia graphics chipset? Regardless, I'm sorry to hear that happened.
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Post by beritberry on Oct 6, 2009 16:05:19 GMT
CharlieChomper - yes, it does! How did you guess?
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Post by Theachen7 on Nov 19, 2009 15:31:09 GMT
Not sure if this should be inte 2 or 3 section, but I just thought I'd mention that Sandy is interviewed in this issue of Living Sims ( here is the link to the interview if anyone's interested)
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Post by Theachen7 on Feb 12, 2010 20:17:24 GMT
haha, The Sims got mentioned in class today, it even was a pretty picture
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Post by andavri on Feb 26, 2010 4:33:43 GMT
I took a couple of pictures in my St. Max game and I thought I'd share them. Mostly I wanted to show Kellie what Maxis had done with my Pagets, but I thought I'd share. Left to right: Idona, Poppea, Otho, and Lucretia Paget. This is an almost completely Maxis game. I have skintones, eyes, make-up, two curtain meshes that are linked to bedding and TS2 store stuff and that's it. It's not a very good shot of Lucretia's face, but ... you can see the point I was kind of making to Kellie. It's orange plaid shorts and a lime green top, but still... It's not Lucretia. Here's Lucretia made over. Now for what happened to poor Idona: Uh, no. No, no, no! Not even if she's on a tropical island, doing the hula. And let's not even start in with that hair, on certain people that hair could work, Idona is not one of them. Just for something different, her mother is a very overbearing type, so I wanted her to look different while off at college. I kinda went with vintage look for her furniture, so I decided to echo it with her clothes--the hat was a lark. ~Steph
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Post by silverlining on Feb 26, 2010 6:47:53 GMT
andravi, your pics are really cute!
I've been dl-ing like crazy(ish) lately since I whiped my dl-folders. Am slightly tempted to fire up my game this weekend...
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Post by Theachen7 on Feb 26, 2010 9:45:34 GMT
I like your pictures Steph!
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Post by andavri on Feb 26, 2010 10:27:28 GMT
And the I'm officially an idiot award goes to: Steph. For her complete lack of ability to find the right thread. I knew there was a random pictures thread, and yet, when I was looking for it, I posted in the wrong one! *faceplant* I am sorry for cluttering up the wrong random thread. I guess it works on the whole random note? *faceplant* ~Steph
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Post by Theachen7 on Feb 26, 2010 12:20:34 GMT
Don't worry, I guess the random pictures thread is a bit redunant
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Post by andavri on Mar 2, 2010 6:12:22 GMT
Actual randomness, this time, though there's a picture too! It's a blue mailbox... I found out the other day when I loaded up the Rydell household for the first time (I'm using prebuilt Maxis houses for preplaying out of sheer, unadulterated laziness, I don't want to redecorate the castles.) that with M&G installed you can change the color of your mailbox! Just use the design tool and there's a blue mailbox (or green or red, don't remember what the other colors are.) ~Steph
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Post by Theachen7 on Mar 2, 2010 8:43:06 GMT
Haha, I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing
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Post by Theachen7 on Mar 14, 2010 15:03:30 GMT
I created my first business in ages today A small pottery/sculpture shop.
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Post by Sylphide on Mar 14, 2010 16:30:33 GMT
Did you post any pictures of this anywhere?
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Post by Theachen7 on Mar 27, 2010 23:05:44 GMT
Sorry Margot, I didn't see you reply! No, I haven't posted any pictures. I might one day, but right now it isn't much to show off really. Oh my sweet muffin, I just had my first abduction in ages! Without using the FT perk or anything (come to think of it it might actually be my first completely natural time!). And it was a male too, so there might be baby..! Not sure how I feel about that yet I was wondering about having them adopt though..
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Post by Sylphide on Apr 2, 2010 13:47:27 GMT
Let us know what happens and pictures of the baby if there is one...
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Post by Theachen7 on Apr 2, 2010 15:11:52 GMT
There is definately a baby, and I'll share pictures Right now though I'm all caught up with TS3, as it doesn't crash the desktop at my mum's I'm spending most of my simming time with that.
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Post by Sylphide on Apr 2, 2010 17:31:06 GMT
I play all my Sims on a desktop, and especially now that I have a new one, I don't have problems anymore. But I have started "contaminating" (remember I'm a nurse...) some of my co-workers with the game.
My boss actually is taken by TS2. However the graphic card on her laptop has some kind of incompatibility and after she has played a few days with one family, the house won't open again. This has happened repeatedly; she got so frustrated, she stopped playing. She took her laptop into a shop and they said there was nothing to be done. It has to do with her videocard. She says her laptop is old and was cheap and she doesn't want to invest in a new one, or a desktop for the moment. But now, she says her boyfriend told her she could use his desktop (she didn't ask because he uses it for work). So it looks like she will be able to play TS2.
My co-worker who is 24 rather liked TS3, she started playing on her laptop, but had the kind of problems a lot of you talked about here, with the heating videocard and shutting down of the game. Her boyfriend is studying math and computers at university. So he wouldn't let a game defeat him! She made me laugh so much when she said she ended up playing with a big comforter wrapped around her and blowing on her fingers to get them warm, because she was freezing with the fan he had blowing on the laptop which he had lifted at the back to let the cold air be blown there! After a week-end of playing in these conditions, she finally gave it up, so he installed the game on his desktop, but he has a lot of homework which he does on the desktop, so she won't get to play very much, especially since they don't share an appartment.
It looks like our games are not really laptop friendly. However I have the impression some of you play only on laptops? How do you get to do it? I installed my Sims2 on my laptop (which has 512 Mb RAM, it is old) and I put EPs up to Seasons. But I feel the game drags a lot, and I don't like playing it with the demands lower on the videocard because the design is not good at all.
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Post by Whitnerd on Apr 2, 2010 22:48:07 GMT
I play on my laptop. When I bought it I made sure it had a good enough video chipset to work well with the Sims. I have a cooling pad fan thing on mine and it seems to work pretty well. It hasn't really overheated since I bought it.
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Post by silverlining on Jun 15, 2010 6:45:50 GMT
Been prodding MTS2 lately. Getting a real itch to put a TS2 story-blog up and start playing again ^^
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