Game Help:Red Flashing Walls - Revision history

Callistra at 19:23, 17 July 2009

2009-07-17T19:23:02Z

Callistra at 19:21, 17 July 2009

2009-07-17T19:21:51Z

Callistra: /* Red Flashing Walls */

2009-07-17T19:21:39Z

‎Red Flashing Walls

Porkypine: /* If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes: */

2009-06-07T22:13:32Z

‎If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes:

Porkypine: /* If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes: */

2009-06-07T22:09:51Z

‎If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes:

Porkypine: /* If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes: */

2009-06-07T22:09:18Z

‎If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes:

Porkypine: /* If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes: */

2009-06-07T22:08:15Z

‎If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes:

Whiterider at 19:34, 16 May 2009

2009-05-16T19:34:45Z

Callistra: /* Flashing red walls after installing a Stuff Pack or Expansion Pack */

2008-09-07T20:40:08Z

‎Flashing red walls after installing a Stuff Pack or Expansion Pack

Whiterider at 23:03, 6 November 2007

2007-11-06T23:03:08Z

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	* The [[Game_Help:Onboard_Graphics\|guide]] to playing with onboard or weak graphics will also apply to most users with this problem.		* The [[Game_Help:Onboard_Graphics\|guide]] to playing with onboard or weak graphics will also apply to most users with this problem.
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 Thanks to HystericalParoxysm for the original article.
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-==Red Flashing Walls==
+==Red Flashing Game Content==
-===Flashing red walls after installing a Stuff Pack or Expansion Pack===
+===Flashing red game content after installing a Stuff Pack or Expansion Pack===
-Many users have reported that walls, floors, and foundations flash red, or neighbourhoods flash purple, after installing one of the stuff packs or expansion packs (Glamour Life Stuff, Family Fun Stuff, or Pets). This is due to increased system requirements as new packs are released. This issue is more common with stuff packs, where the requirements are more precise, and less graphics cards are supported, but also happens with expansion packs with lower-end/unsupported graphics cards.
+Many users have reported that walls, floors, and foundations flash red, or neighbourhoods flash red or purple, after installing one of the later stuff packs or expansion packs (Glamour Life Stuff, Family Fun Stuff, or Pets first saw this issue). This is due to increased system requirements as new packs are released. This issue is more common with stuff packs, where the requirements are more precise, and less graphics cards are supported, but also happens with expansion packs with lower-end/unsupported graphics cards.
-If you install a new pack and you have an unsupported graphics card, you will experience flashing red walls.
+If you install a new pack and you have an unsupported graphics card, you will experience flashing red content.
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 * After backing up, [[Game Help:Uninstall|uninstall]]. When restoring from your backup, do not copy in the Neighborhoods folder as the files within are no longer compatible once you've uninstalled the pack. Everything else should be able to be copied over to restore your user files.
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 * Try updating your graphics card drivers, to see if updated drivers help. This generally does not help but having updated drivers is usually a good idea anyway. You can find information on graphics cards and drivers, how to identify what type of card you have, and how to update your drivers on [[Game Help:Graphics Cards|this FAQ.]]
 If you have updated graphics card drivers and that hasn't helped, your only other options are one or the other of the following:
-* Purchase and install (or have a competent technician install for you) a supported graphics card. The list of supported graphics cards can be found on the system requirements link provided above. Further advice about graphics cards, especially as they relate to Sims 2, may be found at ModTheSims'[http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=31 Sims2 Help forum.]
+* Purchase and install (or have a competent technician install for you) a supported graphics card. The list of supported graphics cards can be found on the system requirements link provided above. Further advice about graphics cards, especially as they relate to Sims 2, may be found at ModTheSims' [http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=31 Sims2 Help forum.]
 * If you cannot afford a new graphics card or do not want to get a new one, and updating drivers didn't work, your only other option is to uninstall the pack. However, if you do so, all of your user files (downloads, sims, lots, pictures... the entire contents of the My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/ folder) will be deleted upon uninstall.

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 If you have updated graphics card drivers and that hasn't helped, your only other options are one or the other of the following:
-* Purchase and install (or have a competent technician install for you) a supported graphics card. The list of supported graphics cards can be found on the system requirements link provided above. Further advice about graphics cards, especially as they relate to Sims 2, may be found at[http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=31 ModTheSims Sims2 Help forum.]
+* Purchase and install (or have a competent technician install for you) a supported graphics card. The list of supported graphics cards can be found on the system requirements link provided above. Further advice about graphics cards, especially as they relate to Sims 2, may be found at ModTheSims'[http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=31 Sims2 Help forum.]
 * If you cannot afford a new graphics card or do not want to get a new one, and updating drivers didn't work, your only other option is to uninstall the pack. However, if you do so, all of your user files (downloads, sims, lots, pictures... the entire contents of the My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/ folder) will be deleted upon uninstall.

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-To find the system requirements for each expansion and stuff pack, you can check here: [[Game Help:System Requirements|System Requirements]]
+To find the system requirements for each expansion and stuff pack, you can check here: [[Game_Help:System_Requirements/MTS2_Recommendations|System Requirements]]
 You can see that the requirements for the expansions and stuff packs are rather different, and fewer cards are supported for stuff packs. Cards that were unsupported in previous expansions but worked okay can also develop flashing red walls with newer expansions, especially Pets.
 ===If you are already experiencing this issue, here are the only known possible fixes:===