Troubleshooting How do i change my AA to x8?

How do i change my AA to x8?

I am really confused on what the AA is ? and how do you change it to x8

 

Can you tell us what you're trying to do? AA could be anything ...

 

Well in another thread i read

Well in a the thread that i read about the pictures not showing up SimGuy sed make sure your AA is set to x8 for best visuals. i have the same problems but i dont what it is and how to do it.:(

 

Not at WorldSims you didn't. We have three members with SimGuy as part of their username and none of them have ever posted anything.

Like I said: what are you trying to do?

Please take the time describe the problem(s) you have in enough detail to make sense ... a good way to do this is top get someone else to read your message and then ask them what they think you need help with.

We would also need to know what sort of computer you have. For example a dxdiag report would be good .... see the FAQ's (see the link in my signature).

 

his name was sims2guy and the thread was this one: http://forums.worldsims.org/showthread.php?t=11337&highlight=pictures

 

Ok well...

Ok well when i make my sims go into a photobooth and take a picture, the picture does not show up , a random thing comes up instead like a cooker or a toilet. Also when i make my families they do not appear in the blue box afterward it is a half broken up picture of the last person i made.

My computer is:
Windows XP home edition
version 2002
service pack 2
Advent 3000 series
intel [R]
Pentium 4 CPU 2.53 GHz
2.52GHz
512MB of RAM
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First off ... go to

My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\

At the bottom of the list of folders are some files:

• Accessory.cache
• cigen
• ContentRegistry
• Groups.cache

Now don't be scared ... delete them (deleting cigen is optional, but you might as well ... think of it as spring cleaning ). The game needs them to speed things up but if it can't find them it is forced to make itself new ones. This is the easiest way to fix those files if they're broken.

Accessory.cache, ContentRegistry, & Groups.cache are rebuilt when the game is next launched.

cigen is a large package file created by Body Shop and it won't get built until you next launch it (Body Shop)

OK that's phase one done ....

PHASE 2 ....

Have you downloaded anything for the game from the internet. This includes houses and sims from the Maxis Sims 2 exchange as well as any fansite? If so take a firm grip of your Downloads folder and drag it out of My Documents\Ea Games\The Sims 2\ and plop it on your desktop.

That's sorted out phase 2.

You now have a game with no unwittingly installed hacks or mods and no corrupted cache files.

Try the game out. If that doesn't fix it you might need to consider more serious measures.

 

I dont have a content registery file! Is this a bad thing? :(

 

Just use the graphic setting options im sure this is how you do it

 

If you haven't downloaded anything then probably you won't have one. The game makes the files it needs.

Your problem is not related graphics settings. Those affect performance of the game (speed, jerkiness, stop-starting, lock-ups etc)

The icons and in-game created images that are used in speech balloons family trees, anywhere a sim needs his pic to show up are generated partly on the fly and partly from a cache. Deleting the caches force the game remake them and that clears up all sorts of problems.

I've had a few similar (but less severe) problems since I got Pets. Chili ... what expansions you got?

 

Iv got University, Nightlife, Open for business, Pets and i geting sim2 seasonsnext week.

 

So did the deletion of the cache files fix it? (By 'eck this is like drawing teeth ... gosh, that's a dumb thing to say. Pulling teeth out isn't difficult with the right tools )

 

Thank you so muck it worked, but i have anouther problem. My game keeps freezing. :(

 

But why does my game keep freezing?:(

 

That'll be because your display device is choking on the load.

Run dxdiag again and report what your display device is called, how much video memory it has, and the date of the driver (the info is on the display tab of the dxdiag report).

If you can't upgrade the best way to improve performance is to reduce the graphics options on the game options menu and also concentrate on playing generally smaller lots.

 

i have directx 9.0c but it doesnt tell me how much video memory it has.

 

You know what's worrying is that I am losing the will to live ... :(

 

This is it:

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440

64.0MB

22/10/2006 12:22:00