EveryDaySims

My Simblr...dedicated to the sims of course!

[lilith-sims]

Falkii’s Squeamishsims Beetle Eyes on Alfred Askew’s Sclera + DEFAULTS

Hey! So, @falkii​ converted @squeamishsims​ Beetle Eyes for ts2 here, and I love them so much! So I put them on the sclera I use, which is by Alfred Askew and made some defaults. These use the same files as falkii’s original eyes, so you have to delete them in order to use mine. I made 3 new colors for the defaults: brown, light blue and green, which you can see in the swatch below. The grey and dark blue defaults are from the existing colors falkii made. The new recolors are also included in the main file as custom versions.

DOWNLOAD BEETLE EYES + ALFRED ASKEW’S SCLERA - CUSTOM

DOWNLOAD BEETLE EYES + ALFRED ASKEW’S SCLERA - DEFAULT 

Credits: squeamishsims, falkii, alfred askew.

[shastakiss]

Hi Shasta, very sorry for bother you but do you know wcif Lunies rustic dining set? As far as I know I´ve seen it and some recolors from you on GoS, but I can´t find it no more, and Google is not a friend. Thank you very much lovely Shasta and have a nice weekend!!!

@hugelunatic’s set is from the 2016 GoS Treasure Hunt, so yes hard to find by definition! Here’s the download link

[deedee-sims]

@summer-choi-simblr‘s Luna Non-Default Face Template

Here’s the first collab face template! Many thanks to Summer for “donating” this super cute face! Please tell me if you find any problems :)

Download - Alternate

(I got a few faces already, and I’m going to roll them out in the next few weeks! You can still send me faces, just read this post!)

[linacheries]

✿ [ts2] plushie fringe rugs ✿

Originally made by Plumbhilda for TS4.

40 swatches - colors by eversims & huning

resized to approx 2*3 tiles

credit: Plumbhilda

❤download❤ - dropbox

[everydaysims-world]

so pretty, reminds me of my Sims 1 days when Mermaid Cove made us some fringe for our carpet rugs :)

[cornyregans]

AFTopMidsleeveTShirt and TFTopMidsleeveTShirt replaced with Trapping’s Worlds Collide top.

They’re available as everyday only, come in the colors shown above, and each age has (mostly) appropriate morphs (Olivia’s modeling the AF pregmorph, Cordelia’s modeling the TF one). Since the tops being replaced are from the base game, you don’t need any EPs installed for these replacements to function properly. That said, I have given those of you with the University EP the option of having this top enabled for young adults as well as adults.

You can download the AF (and YF) version here, the TF one here, or all ages combined here!~

Big thanks to:

@trappingsims2 for the gorgeous top

@toujours-fatale/@yuxi-downloads for the just as gorgeous fullbody outfit

@fanseelamb for parts of the mesh

[everydaysims-world]

That is SO cute!! Thanks!

[ginnieschoepf]

March 29 Sims Community Finds

Updates:

Every Day Sims Sims 1 Lots by Anita, Lots by Sandy, Objects - Bathroom, Bedroom, Build http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=233.0

Sim Fans UK Sims 2 Hotel and spa https://www.simfansuk.com/wp/sim-town-hotel-spa-no-cc/ Beach house https://www.simfansuk.com/wp/modern-beachhouse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=modern-beachhouse Tiny house https://www.simfansuk.com/wp/single-parent-tiny-home/

Angela Ester Sims Sims 2 Casa 46 - Family Beach House http://angelaesterthesims.blogspot.com/

YanderePlum Sims Sims 2 Clothing https://yandereplumsim.tumblr.com/post/613874118035668992/angelas-all-year-wardrobe-for-uni-summer

BeautifulNerdKitty Sims 2 Kitchen https://beautifulnerdkitty.tumblr.com/post/613425033224814592/after-a-very-loong-time-i-bring-you-some-goodies

Arden of Shadows Sims 2 More The New Normal items https://gardenofshadows.org.uk/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=36335.msg744620#msg744620

Veronaville Trash Sims 2 Clothing https://cornyregans.tumblr.com/post/613953885068050432/afbodykitchenapron-replaced-with-mdps-4t2-gp08

EvannaMari Sims 2 Hair https://evannamari-cc.blogspot.com/2020/03/antos-nerea-hair-4t2.html

Suratan-Zir Sims 2 Walls https://suratan-zir.tumblr.com/tagged/ts2cc

Mikexx2 Sims 2 Clothing https://mikexx2.tumblr.com/tagged/sims-2-downloads

S2I Downloads & Requests Sims 2 New TSBOt2 Career: Fashion Victim https://s2idownloads.blogspot.com/2020/03/new-tsbot2-career-fashion-victim.html

LindaSims Sims 2 Clothing https://lindasims2.tumblr.com/post/613932262633979904/

Mod the Sims Sims 2 Vintage signs/posters, hunting spears, house http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=1

Il Grande Lama Sims 3 Rental booths https://grandelama.tumblr.com/post/613919457289601024/happy-birthday-the-sims-the-sims-turned-20-years Ponds https://grandelama.tumblr.com/post/613659840649281536/happy-birthday-the-simsthe-sims-turned-20-years

TheBubbledSims Sims 3 Clothing https://thebubbledsims.tumblr.com/post/613672125476306944/omg-its-been-a-minute-how-are-yall-i-hope

NovaPark Sims 3 World https://novapark.tumblr.com/post/613796144782442496/isla-mariposa-just-a-small-island-full-of

Technically Swag Pizza Sims 3 Posters https://technicallyswagpizza.tumblr.com/post/613922476546785280/polka-moomins-framed-poster-set-i-havent-seen

My Sim Univers Sims 3 World map posters https://mysimunivers.tumblr.com/post/613765015030448128/world-map-posters

Clutter&Curiosimty Sims 3 Poses https://danjaley.tumblr.com/

Sweetdevil Sims Sims 3 Clothing https://sweetdevil-sims.tumblr.com/post/613926294083813376/store-hipsters-united-outfit-for-elders-tried

Shushilda Sims 3 Vocoder and poses https://shushilda.tumblr.com/post/613809304628281344/vocoder-acc-poses-10-poses-avocoder01

Red Plays The Sims Sims 3 Hair https://redplaysthesims.tumblr.com/post/613944701269295104/yes-more-maxis-match-retextures-finding-hairs-to

Bill Sims (Simsway) Sims 3 Clothing https://billsims-cc.tumblr.com/

Ifca Sims Sims 3 Hair https://ifcasims.tumblr.com/

Mod the Sims Sims 3 House http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=2&f=38&showType=1

Annett’s Sims 4 Welt Clothing https://annettssims4welt.blogspot.com/

All4Sims Sims 4 House, seating http://www.all4sims.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15607 CAS backgrounds http://www.all4sims.de/index.php?page=Board&boardID=452

Lina-Cherie Sims 4 Clothing, pet sweaters https://lina-cherie.tumblr.com/

Elegant Cache Sims 4 Hair https://edorenel.tumblr.com/tagged/downloads

Bill Sims (Simsway) Sims 4 Clothing https://billsims-cc.tumblr.com/

Glaza Sims 4 Earrings https://allbyglaza.blogspot.com/

Ghostbouquet Sims 4 Hair https://ghostbouquet.tumblr.com/post/613522250968203264/a-recolor-of-carolforests-habe-hair-they-are-in

Njadakaufey Sims 4 Clothing https://njadakaufey.tumblr.com/post/613436682505797632/city-living-pants-recolor-njadakaufey-this-is-my

Felipe-B-M Sims 4 Hair https://felipebmcreator.tumblr.com/post/613145273827573760/lia-hair

Simpeachie Sims 4 Eyes https://simpeachie.tumblr.com/post/613939987256344576/hey-my-loves-yes-yes-another-piece-of-cc-and

Butternut Sims Sims 4 Clothing https://butternutsims.tumblr.com/post/613880437498167296/4k1k-follower-gift-pt-2-saurusxbop-buttercup

Sims Hairs Sims 4 Hair https://simshairs.tumblr.com/

Mod the Sims Sims 4 Pub, house, walls http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=4&f=38&showType=2

Sites for updates:

TerraLuna Sims 1 https://terraluna.space/

Ad-Free Creators United Sims 2, 3, 4 https://adfreecc.tumblr.com/

Lana Sims 2, 3, 4 http://sssvitlans.tumblr.com/

Liquid Sims Sims 2, 3, 4 https://www.liquidsims.com/

Sims Cave Sims 2 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=172.0

Sims Cave Sims 3 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=173.0

Sims Cave Sims 4 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=225.0

Fia’s Finds Sims 2 http://fias-finds-sims2.tumblr.com/

Pi’s S3 Update Sims 3 https://pis3update.tumblr.com/

Insomnia S3CC Finds https://nemiga-s3cc-finds.tumblr.com/

Kreativeplumbob’s S3CC Finds https://kpccfinds.tumblr.com/

Sims 3 Updates http://sims3updates.net/index.php

My Sims 3 Blog Has updates http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/

Sims 4 Updates http://sims4updates.net/

MMOutfitters Sims 4 https://mmoutfitters.tumblr.com/

CC Faves Sims 4 https://s4ccfaves.tumblr.com/

My Sims 4 Blog http://mysims4blog.blogspot.com/

Amanda’s Sims 4 Updates http://totallysims4updates.blogspot.com/

[everydaysims-world]

Thank you Ginnie!

[venus-as-a-sim-deactivated20200]

NOTE: This is mainly for NVIDIA users. Sorry :/

So, I think all of us simmers with modern hardware have sat in front of our screens having the time of our lives to only be greeted with this disgusting thing:

Pure evil, right? How about this?

I think we’ve all sat in front of our screens day and night hunting for fixes, in which some work, some don’t. Some do for three days, some just… prevent the application from starting at all.

Some of us have even gone as far as to buy completely new computers with older operating systems like Windows 7, Windows XP. Some of us have bought new hardware and still, nothing has changed. People are wasting their money, time and sanity to fix this issue when in fact… there is a reliable, quick and definite fix.

Thanks to @episims​ and their EXTREMELY helpful guide, I managed to fix the flashing and crashing in my game and have managed to exceed my old CC limit of 3GB. But the one thing in their guide that I want to focus on here is this:

This line isn’t here, you have to manually add it in yourself. Navigate to it by hitting CTRL + F and type some of the sentences that appear here. 

Now, I’m not entirely sure what it does but it did indeed prevents these errors from occurring. One of the huge issues with TS2 is that cards with huge amounts of VRAM like the NVIDIA RTX 2080 (8GB Video Memory) consistently have issues with the game and the crashing and flashing is bound to be worse.

However, that is not the case now. Crazysim, the one who created the DXVK guide and has helped tremendously in the community to fix the issue, tested this fix on their 2080 and the game ran perfectly - no issues. So, to those with awesome ass hardware and wanna play the game with no issue - HERE YOU GO! 

Before bringing this to the attention of others on Discord and Tumblr, I managed to help my small circle of simblr friends with this fix and they all said that their issues are now solved, which is incredible! I myself have gone out of my way spending money on new computers and hardware just for this game to run and now that there is finally a good, definite fix genuinely warms my heart. 

The last thing I want to say is don’t use the graphics rules maker after applying that fix as the GRM will revert it and wipe that line out (causing the errors to happen again). 

If you made it to the bottom of this guide, wow, I can’t believe you stuck around that long. Good luck with the fix, let me know how you all get on and finally thank you @episims​ for bringing that one line to our attention! :D

[everydaysims-world]

thanks for the info!

[ginnieschoepf]

March 31 Sims Community Finds

Updates:

Every Day Sims Sims 1 Objects - Decor, Dining, Livingroom, Other, Patio, Seating, Walls, Floors, and Roofs - all done! http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=233.0

Exotic Elements Sims 1 Africa - Moroccan, Bali, Bed, Deco, Domestic Files, Exotic Files, Fountain, French Café Tables, GO Set, India, Japan, Jotapombas India Column, Living, Miscellaneous, Peru, Portugal, Shabby Chic Dining, Thailand, Tuscan, Windows uploaded - all done! http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=233.0

Retail Sims Sims 2 Closing - get downloads now! http://www.retailsims.com/

Fractured Moonlight Sims 2 Booze it or lose it items https://fracturedmoonlight.tumblr.com/post/613515986742738944/frac-and-davina-get-wasted-booze-n-lose-edition

Zerographic Sims 2 Walls https://zerographic.tumblr.com/post/613785931436228608/two-wall-sets-both-are-new-textures-so-you-will

DeeDee Sims Sims 2 Hair https://deedee-sims.tumblr.com/

LoveGalore Sims 2 Hair https://amauryhairslayer.tumblr.com/post/613709850765148160/im-slowly-coming-back-to-the-sims-2-guys-this-is

MrsReval Sims 2 Candle holders https://mrsreval.tumblr.com/post/613950186095624192/candle-holders

SimsInsania Sims 2 Elven items https://simsinsania.tumblr.com/post/613943440036773888/3t2-elven-set-heres-an-objects-set-perfect-for

Meduza’s Place Sims 2 Clothing https://jellymeduza.tumblr.com/post/613758125175160832/tartan-dress-tartan-dresses-for-children

Rubberbear Sims Sims 2 CC free house list https://bluerubberbear.tumblr.com/post/613853310611554304/tiny-house-on-wheels-snap-pea-blue-lace

Skulldilocks Sims 2 Shelves https://skulldilocks.tumblr.com/post/613872096180879360/I’ve-been-working-on-a-weird-community-lot-and

Midge the Tree Sims 2 Several mods https://midgethetree.tumblr.com/post/614055886787313664/midgethetree-cops-can-fight-burglars-allows

Mod the Sims Sims 2 Sim, house, furniture http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=1

RaymondEquestrianCentre Sims 3 Poses https://raymondequestriancentre.tumblr.com/post/613836578496921600/bareback-walk-pose-pack-download https://raymondequestriancentre.tumblr.com/post/613760515457630208/horse-falls-pose-pack-6-horse-poses-and-6-sim

Mettisse Sims 3 Mother’s Day items https://mettisse.tumblr.com/post/613329846661152768/mothers-day-conversions-created-by-leosims4cc

Il Grande Lama Sims 3 Shrubs https://grandelama.tumblr.com/

Pi the Infinite Sims 3 Sims https://pitheinfinite.tumblr.com/post/613950571967315968/sims-dump-it-took-sfs-like-forever-to-upload-the

Once Upon a Time (Downloads) Sims 3 Deco https://uponatimedownloads.tumblr.com/archive

Qvistgaard-Wallen Sims 3 Clothing https://qvistgaard-wallen.tumblr.com/post/614059396919607296/riding-clothes-dump-a-few-new-items-that-has-been

Gruesim Sims 3 World https://gruesim.tumblr.com/post/614044643620995072/hi-frankie-i-real-love-dreamers-bay-and-I’ve

BlueSkyStyle Sims 3 Clothing https://nadegata-blueskystyle.tumblr.com/post/613915767623254016/my-new-clothing-toddler-sailor-shrt-download

My Sim Univers Sims 3 Body compass posters https://mysimunivers.tumblr.com/post/613821435590410240/body-compass-poster

Bill Sims (Simsway) Sims 3 Clothing https://billsims-cc.tumblr.com/

Blacky’s Sims 3 House https://www.simszoo.de/filebase/file/1053-lillehus-3/

Ifca Sims Sims 3 Hair https://ifcasims.tumblr.com/

Blacky’s Sims 4 Deco towels https://www.simszoo.de/filebase/file/1043-vorhang-geschirrtuchset-gr%C3%BCn/

All4Sims Sims 4 Seating http://www.all4sims.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15615 House http://www.all4sims.de/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=15616

Beatdoc’s Sim Bits Sims 4 House https://beatdoc16.tumblr.com/post/613998581647589376/ea-makeover-ophelia-villa-version-2-cc-free

Floraltaeny Sims 4 Clothing https://afloraltaeny.tumblr.com/post/613955879135592448/afloraltaeny-floraltaenys-nuni-top-v2-44

Tiosims Sims 4 Eyes https://tiosims.tumblr.com/post/613722818613493760/march-eyes-i-use-mouseyblue-texture-as-a-base

Sunflower Petals Sims 4 Earrings https://sunflowerpetalscc.tumblr.com/post/613878351292203008/heartbreaker-earrings-thanks-for-300-followers

MusiLizzy Sims 4 Hijabs https://musilizzy.tumblr.com/post/613919923133087744/hijab-spring-fashion-look-1-hijab-046-top

Candycottonchu Sims 4 Hair https://candycottonchu.tumblr.com/post/613868633804963840/francesco-male-only-2-versions-18-ea-swatches

Bill Sims (Simsway) Sims 4 Clothing https://billsims-cc.tumblr.com/

Glaza Sims 4 Hair https://allbyglaza.blogspot.com/

Sims Hairs Sims 4 Hair https://simshairs.tumblr.com/

Mod the Sims Sims 4 Dining set, sim, invite mod http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=4&f=38&showType=2

Sites for updates:

TerraLuna Sims 1 https://terraluna.space/

Ad-Free Creators United Sims 2, 3, 4 https://adfreecc.tumblr.com/

Lana Sims 2, 3, 4 http://sssvitlans.tumblr.com/

Liquid Sims Sims 2, 3, 4 https://www.liquidsims.com/

Sims Cave Sims 2 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=172.0

Sims Cave Sims 3 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=173.0

Sims Cave Sims 4 New community updates http://simscave.mustbedestroyed.org/index.php?board=225.0

Fia’s Finds Sims 2 http://fias-finds-sims2.tumblr.com/

Pi’s S3 Update Sims 3 https://pis3update.tumblr.com/

Insomnia S3CC Finds https://nemiga-s3cc-finds.tumblr.com/

Kreativeplumbob’s S3CC Finds https://kpccfinds.tumblr.com/

Sims 3 Updates http://sims3updates.net/index.php

My Sims 3 Blog Has updates http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/

Sims 4 Updates http://sims4updates.net/

MMOutfitters Sims 4 https://mmoutfitters.tumblr.com/

CC Faves Sims 4 https://s4ccfaves.tumblr.com/

My Sims 4 Blog http://mysims4blog.blogspot.com/

Amanda’s Sims 4 Updates http://totallysims4updates.blogspot.com/

[everydaysims-world]

Thanks Ginnie!

[bluerubberbear]

ALL MY CC-FREE LOTS (ts2)

TINY HOUSE ON WHEELS

SNAP PEA

BLUE LACE

CINNABUN       

CAFE LE MINGO

CONTAINER ON WHEELS

RED APPLE

MAPLE SEED

PATCHWORK

FIN

STRAWBERRY

LATTE

CONVERTED BARN

TANGERINE

TINY POND

BLUE SCALE

SWEET PEA

REDBERRY BEACH

BANANA BEACH

MINI VILLA

WHITE PEBBLE

GRAPE

BEACH WATCHTOWER

TINY LAKEHOUSE

TINY FARM

CONVERTED FACTORY

BOURBON

CONTAINER HOME

MERINGUE

OWLBERRY LAKE

LE MINGO SHOPS

THE WHITE KNIGHT

AMPHITRITE BOTANICAL GARDENS

HULULU POOL BAR

PINEBERRY MALL

OLD TOWN STORES

GAZEBO CAFE

CONTAINER DORM

[gingers-sims]

Omgggg, I’ve got new computer and wanted to finally play TS2 and then that issue occured :’( Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help will be appreciated ♥ 

[illegalsims]

I would try graphics rule maker! I had this issue when I first got my laptop loaded up with TS2. My laptop (Asus) has a dual graphics card and the one my game likes is my integrated card but the one my computer wants to use for games is the nice, high-end Nvidia card. Graphics Rule Maker fixed it by basically forcing Sims to load on the integrated Intel card instead of the Nvidia.

The downside is that sometimes I have to fight the game to load and keep having to clear my cache before I can get the game to actually play, but that takes like… two minutes.

[gingers-sims]

So I’ve changed to full screen mode and I’ve started using Intel graphic card instead of Nvidia and it worked as a charm. 

The Sims Community is the best community ever, big thanks to everyone who liked, reblogged or commented on my post. You’re the best ♥ 

@gphoenixsims @shastakiss @1teslacourt @kim-simpearls @illegalsims @10thingsihateaboutqueue @joyanneoconnor @wellofloneliness @veetiesims2 @katmk36 @boxofsims @silverspringsimmer @josephineqq @alawren4ever @marthamarthamartha @cindysimblr @uniquape @episims @sushigal007 @ultratahoe6509 @peachvly 

Thank you so much <3 

[episims]

Tweaks to Graphic Rules file that helped me with The Sims 2 crashing and flashing (Win7 + Nvidia card)

Since I was encouraged to share these (thanks to everyone who gave their opinion!) you’ll find a rather lengthy explanation of what I’ve done under the cut.

Keep reading

[episims]

I’m reblogging this because I’ve played my game a lot more since I posted about this and I just can’t believe how well it’s working. Like seriously, the difference is so huge that it’s hard to put down in words. 

Previously I couldn’t even imagine downloading multiple lots in a row - the game always crashed and sometimes started flashing as well, and some of my lots were hardly playable even if I only loaded them alone - especially beach lots crashed so badly that I almost wasn’t able to play through the households living on those. And even on smaller lots I always had to reopen the game at some point as the game had a clear limit with how long I could keep it open before it eventually crashed.

After I started using these tweaks my game just… works. My sims can finally visit even the heavier community lots or even many of them in a row. I can play multiple households without reopening the game in between. My game has crashed once but it felt totally random, like what you can experience with any game sometimes, and I have played for tens of hours since that happened without the game crashing again. I have not seen even one object flashing pink during all this time.

But what’s really unbelievable is that some people with Nvidia card and Win10 seem to have been able to fix their game with these tweaks as well.

So if you have Nvidia card and problems with the game… give this a shot. You can probably even ignore tweaks #1 and #3 and only test the second one. I promise it’s not as complicated as it might look like and while it’s always good to take backups of your game before doing changes like this, this is not something you can very likely break your game with.

And if it does help, please consider telling the community about it! I don’t need credit about anything myself but the information just might help others who have problems with their games. 

[shastakiss]

@chicvibeluvs​ very kindly linked me to their Piggi’s Sims folder of re-uploaded files

and then they also very kindly shared a link to their main folder of lost content by inactive creators. Thank you chicvibe, and happy downloading y’all

[everydaysims-world]

thank you!!

[deedee-sims]

My 2019 Tumblr Top 10

As usual, (clothing) downloads everywhere! Although I’m a bit surprised that my prima guide cutout about chemistry got that many notes lol

1). 463 notes - 18 April 2019

2). 412 notes - 20 March 2019

3). 371 notes - 04 January 2019

4). 355 notes - 08 March 2019

5). 326 notes - 28 March 2019

6). 326 notes - 30 January 2019

7). 309 notes - 07 July 2019

8). 306 notes - 10 May 2019

9). 299 notes - 14 June 2019

10). 287 notes - 04 July 2019

Created by TumblrTop10

[chrisnewbie]

Project Strangetown: All 17 Sims 2 GBA Lots for The Sims 2

At long last, the Sims 2 GBA corner of Strangetown has been discovered! Each lot is entirely CC Free and furnished, all you have to do is roam this forgotten landscape in search for its colourful storytelling & game play potential!

Download All Lots HERE (sim file share)

Each lot has its own post with preview pictures and individual download links, just in case you only want select lots instead of the whole package. Find them under the cut:

Keep reading

[everydaysims-world]

amazing, thanks!

[maryannsims2]

This is Jan the new teacher of the little neighborhood school of my sims.

It’s an adult sim, not yet a senior.

[everydaysims-world]

Awesome!

[dramallamadingdang]

My mind is blown.

I’m totally serious. And this is a seriously long post, for which I apologize, but you might think it worth it in the end.

I did some fiddling with my Simming computer while solving the mystery of the super-lag/abysmal FPS rate in my TS3 game. While I was reading up on things to do that might improve that situation, I ran across this MTS forum post. It’s about NVIDIA graphics settings (meaning, settings outside of the game, controlled by the video card itself) that improve the appearance of TS3 in-game. Now, maybe among the more gamer-types out there, doing this kind of stuff is common knowledge. But I didn’t know, and my gamer husband never saw fit to inform me of these things, for which he’s gonna get a whuppin’ :), and my mind is blown, so I thought I’d share info for other non-gamer-types like me who don’t know about this stuff. :)

After I fixed my TS3 game and tried out the NVIDIA settings and they made my TS3 game look awesome, I wondered what would happen if I applied the same settings to TS2. I had to test the game anyway because part of my problem-solving in TS3 was to update my GPU’s driver to the version that was released about two weeks ago instead of a 5-year-old one. *laugh* I feared this would screw up TS2, but Mustang Valley and my creating set-up, at least, are fine with it. (Might be a totally different story when I play a regular, active, populated neighborhood, of course!) But I figured, what the hell, let’s make a profile for TS2 with these settings, too. The worst that could happen is the game freaks out and I have to revert back to the default settings.

Well, the game didn’t freak out and, in some ways, it looks a lot better. I’ll go into more detail about that, via many pics, behind the cut. In front of the cut I’ll say this:

You need an NVIDIA graphics card. I mean, I’m sure there’s ways to do the same things with AMD cards. I just don’t know how. You can’t do this stuff with Intel integrated graphics. 

Moreover, you need a decent NVIDIA video card. In the linked MTS post, the OP has a 700-series card and the guy who posted the settings was dubious about whether or not the OP should mess with this stuff because it might cause lower FPS rates and lag in TS3. But I’m gonna venture a guess that you could do this with a lesser card for TS2, since it’s a much less demanding game even when it’s all tricked out. And either way, there’s no harm in trying. (For the record, my card is a GTX 1050Ti. It’s decent, the best card I can put in my Simming machine without needing a stronger power supply, and it’s more than adequate for both TS2 and TS3, but it’s certainly not high end.)

You need the Nvidia Profile Inspector, if you don’t already have it. It’s freeware, and you can download it here. Note that it’s a program for Windows; I have no idea how you’d go about doing this stuff on a Mac.

Once you’ve downloaded/installed the Profile inspector, open it up. It looks like this when you open it:

Under the drop-down at the very top (circled in red in the pic), there’s a huge long alphabetical list of games and programs, old and new, that you can create an individual graphics profile for using this program. This means that the settings you choose will affect only that program and no others. So, if you play other games, Sims or otherwise, or use other programs (my CAD program’s on the list, yay!), you might want to fiddle with those, too. But anyway, for TS2, find Sims 2 (with no “The”. And it lists all the EPs, too, but just pick the base game) on the list and choose it. Then, plug in the settings in the post I linked to above. They’re all in the drop-downs for each setting, so all you have to do is click and choose the right setting. When you’re done, click “Apply Changes” in the upper right corner of the program window. Done. Easy-peasy. It’ll take you two minutes to do, if that.

Then load up your game, and in your graphics settings you can (and probably should) turn off the game’s native edge smoothing. It’s being overwritten with much stronger anti-aliasing, so there’s no point in having it turned on. In the pics below the cut, all of my graphics settings are at max except that edge-smoothing is turned off, I have no lighting or shader mods installed, and the game is in windowed mode. (It tends to look better that way.)

Now as to what it looks like… There’re a bunch of pics behind the cut. I’ll say up front that the changes are subtle. Don’t expect miracles in a 15-year-old game! :) But for me – since I’m pretty damn picky about how my game environment looks, what with wanting high-res and stuff - they make enough difference that I’m definitely keeping these settings in place. 

I don’t see much difference in neighborhood view – including skyboxes/horizons – aside from meshed stuff having smoother edges and a bit (not a lot, just a bit) better texture quality/clarity. Rather, the main difference that I see is in the on-lot textures. There is better clarity and more depth, even in things like basegame carpets. It affects objects, walls/floors/terrain paints, hair textures, everything. (Well, OK, I didn’t notice much difference with clothing and other non-hair CAS stuff, but all I had available to look at was my defaults and Maxis clothing, and…yeah.) 

Overall, you get a higher level of detail and more depth, even close-up, without having higher-res textures. (But if you do have high-res stuff, it looks even better than it did before, with no further increased resolution.) Which means that you get better-looking textures WITHOUT contributing to pink flashing at all.

So! On to the pictures, none of which are edited in any way except for cropping/resizing and adding text. No sharpening, no fiddling with brightness/contrast. Nothing. I wish I could give you “before and after” pics, but…nope. You’ll just have to take my word that there is a difference. Which you can verify by fiddling with your own settings. (Don’t worry about breaking your game or anything. Since these are settings that exist entirely outside the game, there’s no way you can hurt the game with them. :) ) So, pictures…

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6 hours of hard work paid off, haha! I made these hair colors and I am ever so proud of myself. Looks like I may be retiring Poppet’s v2 again :P