Grapics Issues.....

BlogpostPublished: Jan 31, 2007Views: 144

Well I finally did get several new things created, but when I opened the game to take pictures, the outfits looked blurry. This has happened in the past, and if I exited the lot and came back in, it usually cleared up. But this time, it's not clearing up. Nothing has changed on my computer and I've checked all the graphics settings within the game, and I can't find a reason for why the clothes are appearing blurry, other than maybe my graphics card is going bad. I know it's not the clothes because they are fine outside of the game. Plus, ALL the clothes within the game look blurry (not just the new stuff), so I know it has something to do with my graphics.

I'll have to see what I can do to fix the problem before I submit the new items because, obviously, they will look terrible if I take pictures of them now.

If you have any ideas on what else I can try, please let me know. Otherwise, I may be off to the computer store to buy a new graphics card today. :)

RockinRobin ∙ Feb 4, 2007

Thanks for the advice. The problem seems to have cleared up on its own and I was able to take pictures of my newest outfits. I still don't know what caused it. Originally, I thought maybe I was running low on memory since I had been using several programs most of the day (SimPE, Bodyshop, Sims2, Photoshop CS2) and all of them pull a tremendous amount of resources. But I had rebooted the computer and made sure everything was closed and things were still blurry in the game. I gave up and when I went back into the game the next day, everything was fine. So who knows? Maybe my computer was just tired and needed a break. LOL I do know that I need to get another harddrive because this one is about full. When the drive gets too full, it will also cause things to run bad since it uses a certain amount of the physical drive to cache things while running large programs. It sucks that once the drive gets more than half full, you start to notice problems. Currently I have a 140gb internal drive plus a 350gb external and

MoMama ∙ Feb 3, 2007

One thing to try. Just to be sure a custom creation isn't causing the problem. Move your downloads directory to another location temporarily and open up the game and see if things still look blurry. If they do, it might be a graphics issue. If not, it might be a custom content item is causing the problem. I've had such issues in the past. Good luck! NK