Help my walls keep blinking... can anyone help me please?! i just installed sims 2 double deluxe, freetime, and kitchen and bath interior and i tried to play and now the walls in the neighborhoods and the house keep flashing red and black! HELP ME!
Sounds to me you need to update your video card drivers. If you know what make/model your video card is, then visit the manufacture's webpage to grab the proper drivers for your card.
RED FLASHING WALLS The reason they're flashing is the expansion pack doesn't support your graphics card, here's a fix that gets rid of it. Open the Pets install directory probably; C:\Program Files\EA Games\Sims 2\Sims 2 Pets or something similar. Open for the 'TS Data' folder, goto the 'RES' folder, goto the 'Catalog' folder, goto the 'Scripts' folder. Now look for a text file called 'walls.txt' Make a copy of this as a backup. Open the original in notepad and scroll down it until you come to the lines that say; 'wall 1 default pattern blank' after the default pattern bit start a new line and type the following (without the quotes) 'invisibleLightBlocking' Save the file and restart the game, should have no flashing walls, they're still there, it's just that they are now invisible. Hope that helps - DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE. It might work for other exspansion packs, I don't know 'cos my daughter only plays pets. This took me nearly a month to work out.
i'm not sure how this site works yet but i hope this gets direct towards rjohn?? that's exactly the problem i had on my old computer!!!! but now, on this new one, instead of flashing red whenever i scroll over anything a parts of my screen turn this blue gray color, and it gets really annoying when i try to put stuff in a house and the floor is blue or like... the sides are flickering this blue gray color. i wish i could describe it better... do you think you know something that could help that??
