Troubleshooting Texture Display Problems [GFX Issue?]

Texture Display Problems [GFX Issue?]

Recently my hard drive on my HP Compaq nc6000 crapped out, thus forcing me to buy a new 60GB Seagate hard drive.

I reinstalled everything (updates, drivers, etc.) and to my behold when I reinstalled Sims 2 DVD Edition, University, & Nightlife, a texture error occured.



This happens with not only wallpapers, but textures on booth seats & whatever else. Instead of having the texture being displayed properly, the file location shows up in place of the texture.

Also, this error occurs in both community & residental lots, in both Downtown & University zones, & build and live mode.

There are no updates for my ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series gfx card and I have DirectX 9.0 WITH MORE than enough memory on my Windows Media Center Edition laptop.

Before the hard drive crash, everything was fine. What am I missing or what is the issue?

You can take a look at the DirectX Diagnostics TXT file here [ http://geocities.com/remixings/DxDiag.txt ]

TXT File & Screen shot are also enclosed as attachments.

Thanks in advance!

 

It would be helpful if you would uninstall the whole game again and start over with one phase at a time.

Install The Sims 2 and see if the display is working OK before proceeding. It's possible that a crucial file was corrupted along the way somewhere.

One idea to check out first is to make sure your graphic options are not just set too high ... that's a long shot cos I can't actually see that causing this sort of mayhem, but it's a quick and easy thing to check anyway before reinstalling.

 

Hmm.

Reinstalled everything & it works fine now HOWEVER, I have to keep my Texture Details at a Low setting. Changing it to medium or high will cause the malfunctioning textures to pop up again.

What's causing this problem? This issue didn't happen before.