BluebellFlora

Seasons graphics problems on Macs

Published on November 20, 2012November 21, 2012 by BluebellFlora

I count myself very lucky that I can actually play Seasons, given the amount of Mac users who can’t since they installed it and/or updated to patch 1.42.

BUT I am having a very annoying glitch happen when the season changes to Autumn (Fall):

As soon as Fall turns into Winter everything returns to normal and is fine until Fall comes round again. When the full moon phase kicks in that also seems to correct the issue – weird huh?

It’s looking like this may only be affecting current 15″ MacBook Pros with the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M graphics cards. If you’re experiencing the exact same issue please can you post on the following thread in the Mac forum (even if you’re a Windows user):

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/614262.page

Please don’t comment on here – we need all the info. to be readily available to EA in one place 🙂

EDIT – It seems to be affecting all NVIDIA GeForce GT cards, not just the 650M.

Supernatural pictures

Published on November 9, 2012 by BluebellFlora4 Comments

Well, only 3 of them. But I’m loving the funny characters EA introduced into the game. After 24 hours though I’m already a little bored of the gameplay so I’m starting a new WiP.

Coming back slowly.

Published on November 9, 2012 by BluebellFlora11 Comments

In the last few days I’ve wanted to load up The Sims 3 again. Don’t know why as RL still has so much going on, but I’ve just been messing around with it. My lovely husband (yep, he’s no longer simply a boyfriend 😉 ) bought me Supernatural the other day and I’ve been laughing at macho Sims running around with bright pink fairy wings. My game seems to be working ok at the moment. I’ve patched a couple of times with no problems and installed Supernatural without any hitches. Although whenever there’s any kind of animal in sight or about to spawn there is a slight stutter and lag as the game engine tries to keep up. Of course this is nothing to do with my Macs specs. and everything to do with EA’s crappy port using Cider. Does it happen in Boot Camp? Of course not.

So I’m thinking I might build something simple and upload it soon. The problem is that all my builds are so store heavy content wise but I guess most builder’s houses are now, 3 1/2 years down the line.