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Spockthewok (aka Will Nixon) wrote a master's thesis on pink flashing, figured out the cause and potentially found the first genuine fix.

The fix itself (along with the thesis for those interested) can be found here:

A patch to fix the 'pink soup' bug in The Sims 2. Contribute to spockthewok/TS2MemCapRemover development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Author of the mod discovered that memory-usage-related pink soup is a result of an intentional safety check in the game's code, rather than a mistake in calculating texture memory.

So his experimental mod for TS2 RPC launcher basically tells the game to stop freaking out and turning stuff pink when shaders' memory usage goes over certain threshold. NOTE: it may get rid of the pink, but the game will still crash if you exceed 4GB limit.

There are two mod options to choose from:

Version 1 is more radical, it completely removes the safety check. You'll (probably) find out the shader's memory limit has been exceeded when your game crashes.

Version 2 is supposed to allow some pink soup at around 3.5 GB memory usage, near the danger zone, so you have time to act - so obviously, this one sounds more sensible.

And while I remain convinced that pink soup can occur because of other shader-related issues or f*cked-up memory settings, not just this "failsafe", if your game suffers from pink soup it's definitely worth a try!

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So far, various and fairly rigorous testing on my end and by members of the community have been reporting success 🎉🎉

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Oh btw I might also spread the word about this lil mod here:

I think I had a good chance to test it out yesterday, as I was filming in a *VERY* heavily decorated 'hood and had to travel between multiple lots in a row - usually my game would go nuts after like 5 minutes into this hustle, but this time nothing happened so I suppose the mod is doing its ~magic~ very well!

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A couple of random screenshots I took on a little deco street I've built for filming purposes (which turned out to be completely useless because that parking on community lots mod suddenly stopped working and I don't know whyyy)

Ngl I kinda missed doing this stuff

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Me when someone tries to talk to me on my cig break

Anyways, just testing stuff. Been a while since I last filmed something…

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I swear I'm gonna spam the hell out of this place today

A little sneak peak at yet another (I kinda lost count of how many I've created so far lol) custom 'hood I started working on some time ago. It's currently on hiatus because I just don't think it's that great of a project, but it will be finished some day... I hope..?

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A couple more screenshots of Sunville.

I think I'm gonna share the empty version of it soon and abandon the inhabited one for now as I simply have no energy or motivation to continue working on it atm as it has already taken so much of my time it honestly feels owerhelming. I do hope to come back to it some day, but for now I feel like I have to at least let others check out the terrain I've created for it because I'm seriously proud of the work I've done there.

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Took some pics of a couple 1930s summer houses I saw irl back in January and I honestly did not expect them to turn out looking this good when I tried to recreate them

I mean ofc they did not look so americana™ originally but I'm still lowkey proud of myself like wtf did I build these??

#or maybe it's just the bespoke build set because I said it before and I'll say it again it makes every build look gorgeous #there was also a really cool looking 1960s library nearby but I'm not sure if i'll be able to recreate it #anyways these beauties will soon be found on my mts page #sims 2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 screenshots #ts2 tumblr #sims build #sims 2 build #the sims 2 build

Aaand I'm making another one

Mind you I'm supposed to be working on much bigger project atm but oh well here I am

Also wtf have Mettaton already taken over this house or what

Alexa play Death By Glamour

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Needed a corner lot and decided it was a great opportunity to finally build something in this european style because, believe it or not, I don't think I have ever built anything that looked like this. Idek what it's called actually, I'm just kind of mimicking stoffelsim's builds that I've placed around lol.

Looks fine so far but now I need to figure out the inner layout and I HATEEE doing that :((

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Also ay look it's my irl car :D Mine's a wagon tho but it's kind of a beggars can't be choosers situation lol

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No yall when I said the car collection was massive I really meant it cuz it actually took me three days to organize it and to get rid of everything I didn't like.

Now it's all sorted out and only takes 5-something GB (no idea how much it was before but I'm assuming like twice as much concidering how much stuff had to be gone).

The only folder that was left almost completely untouched is the VPN's Garage one because despite there were plenty of cars I didn't find appealing those things are literal relics nowadays and I'm gonna take the role of a keeper for this small part of ts2 CC history lol

#i'm so proud of myself #tho i feel like there's still some organizing needs to be done here and there just to polish it all a little #but honestly I'm so tired of this stuff by now I'm just gonna leave it as it is #simblr #sims 2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 cc #sims 2 custom content

One of my biggest flexes as a (self proclaimed) car guy playing ts2 so far is that I was sorting out my massive car collection today (which should've been done ages ago cuz that shit was messy asf), saw this ugly thing while looking through one of the folders and naturally I wanted to get rid of it cuz what in the FreshPrinceCreations is this (jokes on them it was indeed their creation) and since there was no proper name or description, as seen on images, I was like "well it looks like some 90s japaneese econocar, probably some honda accord or whatever" and it was in fact a honda accord

Ugly car deleted, me proud💅🏻

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Don't you just hate it when you're trying to enjoy a fine social event but some chic called Catherine keeps following you around trying to beat your ass uuugh

#making another custom hood rn and these two are killing me #i literally have to make them both selectable every time they're around and stop them from trying to kick each others ass every 5 seconds #like no catherine can we not do this right now go make out with your husband or something #i swear this bitch is problematic af #like idk what's her problem is but she keeps messing around with people #all that while being a popularity sim as well like girl fyi bullying is NOT how you make friends #simblr #sims 2 #the sims 2 #ts2 #sims 2 screenshots #ts2 tumblr

Playing around with 'hood fog in Jaspers Heights + a couple of random screenshots

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I swear I'm gonna spam the hell out of this place today

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I accidentally created this cute (mostly) French looking district today.

Long story short, I had to get rid of a very old and very corrupted 'hood, but since there were some builds that I liked I decided to save those and place somewhere so I could take a closer look at them without my game crashing like every two minutes and find their creators later on so I could redownload them. Decided to place the lots in Carnen and now I feel like I should probably keep it this way and make it into an actual playable 'hood lol.

Also, as I found out, most of those French builds were made by stoffelsim on MTS, just in case some of yall are in need of something like that. There are also a couple builds by Black0rchid and oliverstrahle.

The rest of the lots were either unidentified or I just wasn't interested in them that much.

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Bish bash bosh, building stuff

On vacation atm and decided to spend a couple days at home to get some rest and maybe finish a couple of old projects while I'm here

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Shay and Debbie

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I just really like this screenshot idk why Slowly working on stuff, jumping from one project to another, so there's a high chance I won't finish any of them lol

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