I had a go of an installer an it reinstalled the graphic drivers that got dropped so its back working again and I am never installing another update.

Sorry to hear that, hope everything goes ok.

Good luck with everything, hope the game runs well in your recovery!

How full is your hard disk? 823 MB isn't much for a 500 GB SSD to handle.

200 tabs? Noone needs that many tabs open at once! Tabs are a memory hog. They'll be slowing you to a crawl trying to process everything.

Hope your operation goes well and that you're healthy again soon!

[QUOTE=AndrewGloria I am going to have to have a second cancer operation in the next 6-8 weeks, which will restrict my other activities, so I reckon my Sims game will be more important for my wellbeing than ever.[/QUOTE]

Playing sims 2 helps to relief my stress, so I pray it helps you in your recovery. And I pray your surgery goes well.

In this case, the locomotive in the train station I'm in the process of finishing up. I posted a pic of my proof-of-concept for it in the Random Pictures thread, but this is a project that I'm actually kinda disappointed by how it looks in "realistic angle" screenshots compared to how it looks from the typical 3/4 down view I think most players use... It's a cool art-deco-y, slightly-steampunk-y station in general, the locomotive is just part of it, but I don't feel like that comes across as well in the pictures as it does in-game.

A pet peeve I was reminded of again today: How you can't just ignore or randomise aspiration and turn-ons/turn offs in CAS, but to finalise a sim you have to make those choices. I like making sims by making a couple of CAS parents and randomising a child that I like to be the actual sim I'll put in the neighbourhood, so that sim will have more interesting genetics - I'm sure plenty of simmers do this. The CAS parents never go anywhere, they get deleted before the household is finalised, so their aspirations and turn-ons/turn-offs don't matter, they're just annoying to pick out. Sure, I can make the same choices every time, but it still takes an annoying amount of time that I wish I could just skip.

It looked pretty good in the picture you showed us. Are screenshots from every angle required (has never uploaded a lot)?

I get annoyed when a group of sims gets stuck in a small hallway because then I need to pick each of their individual actions all over again. This happens especially in small houses.

In TS4 sims just walk through each other, but, then again, that solution is also lazy. Maxis should have made it so that sims don't lose their actions that you have assigned them to do.

Many thanks for all your messages of support.


As a one-time Scottish railwayman, I think almost all 20th century American steam locomotives look more than a bit steampunk-y, with bells, whistles, lamps, pumps, pipes and all sorts of what-have-you? bolted on all over them! Your one certainly looks the part!

I sometimes make Sims that way too. And sometimes, when I want a single Sim with a child (whose ages I may change before they finally make it into my game) I let CAS generate a temporary Sim, whom I pair with the one I'm keeping, so that the child is genetically related to the parent that I keep.

Sometimes I would quite like the game to randomise aspiration as it does personality and star sign. Left to the "devices and desires"of my own heart, I very seldom make Fortune Sims, as I find it hard to relate to the way they think. And I'm not too keen on Family Sims either, as I don't like the way they want to control their children's lives -- even in adulthood. (I've sometimes been on the receiving end of that sort of parental love myself.) But I don't waste any time worrying about their turn-ons and turn-offs. With the solitary exception of Andrew, my very first Sim, I've given every single Sim (teen and older) that I've made in CAS (and I've made a lot of CAS Sims!), the same turn-ons and turn-offs that I'd undoubtedly have myself if I were a Sim: Swimwear and Underwear as turn-ons (you've all seen the way my Sims dress ). Vampirism as their turn-off.

Andrew? He doesn't fancy boys with beards. Otherwise he agrees with me. (I actually think he has a point about facial hair. I can't help thinking that kissing must be more fun without bristly hair getting in the way. But what would I know? I'm an Elder now, and I still haven't had a first kiss! My Sims understand romance and relationships much better than I do!)

It currently says 116GB free of 456GB, which is about three quarters full. But sometimes it seems to vary for no obvious reason. It's probably because of large temporary files somewhere on the disk being created and deleted. I don't think all of that is ever available for use as virtual memory, and I still think running out of virtual memory may be a part of my problem.
Point taken. This may be part of the cause of my troubles. When I checked earlier today, I had 241 tabs open in Firefox! I'll try and go through then all, and close all the ones I'm never likely to use. A lot of them are pictures that I intended to use in posts here, but the thread tab timed out before I posted. I suspect now they are not only wasting memory on my computer, but also wasting space on MTS's servers. Clearly I can''t now use pictures take in May of last years to illustrate a post in What's happening in your game right now? ! I'll close most of the tabs, but I'll take a note of the useful-looking URLs that I may be able to use later.

If you want more variety in your aspirations or turn on/offs, then assign a number to each one and then roll a dice. Should make things more interesting. https://www.google.com/search?si=AP...2&bih=956&dpr=1



If you want to save URLs then just flag them to go into your favourites. That's what I do when I procrastinate on getting around to looking at them lol.

I'm sorry to hear about your health. I pray for a successful surgery and speedy recovery. Thank you for answering my questions.

I know you were responding to AndrewGloria, but I just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation. It is perfect for what I needed.

It annoys me when I look at an apartment, think that looks good but when you rent it all the furniture is missing.
I find I have to screen shot the apartment and then go hunting for all the furniture in the buy catalogue.

Why can't you just rent a furnished apartment?

You can rent furnished if you play with testing cheats on and shift click the apartment door> Rent furnished. Warning- the rent is very steep! You can also rent furnished with apthack from MATY:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/al/hacks/