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!
I tried. I really really tried.
Contemplating a full reinstall.
I did the Origin Repair trick. And was able to load BodyShop, but the textures were bad, so I fixed that with Graphics Rules Maker but then I got the "not installed" message again. Redid the Origin Repair, manually fixed the BodyShop texture size issue, did the 4GB patch, and was able to load BS and the game. The next day, back to "not installed" message.
Why hast thou forsaken me Sims 2??
Hi Everyone! Yes I'm still alive. I know I'm not very active any longer, but I am still around. And I've even made a few things in the last year or so, but got bored and didn't finish it. So yeah ... hi.
Anyway, I honestly have no idea what the thoughts are in the community about the The Sims 4 Marketplace monetization of custom content. But I have formulated an opinion where it concerns any of my past, present, or future content, so I wanted to drop this update to my policy. I've generally had a pretty liberal policy, but I've always been against any of my creations being used for pay sites. So this should come as no surprise:
Please do not use any of my content in whole or in part in creations that are going to be placed on the TS4 Marketplace for monetary gain.
I am personally not a big fan of cats but most cafe has these cute little feral creatures, so I am inspired by them, after all, they are calming pets for this kind of business.
Floor Plan:
Comic store is pretty much inspired by Synaptic comic book store, it consists of action figures and old Marvel, and DC comic books
Cafe for hungry customer:
We have bubble tea and chick-fill-a for your grumbling belly :D. The food stands ads are already altered, So their attraction is only when your sims and customers are hungry.
Now for the internet cafe:
I usually enslave the customers with these beautiful computers by Nonsensical-Pixels. Then make them sleep in the sleeping bag provided.
There are a few notes that I want to point out before you guys install this lot to your game:
This lot is somehow considered pretty heavy, probably from comic rack and action figure recolor done by Synaptic, they are a lot (more than 50). Pink soup will occasionally appear during long business play, but dont worry, just safe your game and restart.
If you have comic mods, please make sure they are all available for community lot other wise, it will freeze the lot or maybe your sims will constantly restart. Most mods I found mostly didn't work for community lot.
I changed the price on action figures and comics, so they will be super expensive to restock. Make sure you have business benefits for wholesale. Or you will file for bankruptcy hahaha.
This made my day! So happy to see the comic shop stuff being used! Looks like a fun place!
I'd get me some chicken nuggies and read the newest issues of X-Men!
The entire features list and first images for The Sims 1 and The Sims 2 rereleases have leaked! See what to expect games coming this Friday.
It’s a rerelease, not a remaster. Fixes for windows 10/11 optimizations. No price points yet, but it will be the complete games, all packs included. January 31 release.
I made something for The Sims!!!! It's been a really long time. The Simming bug didn't hit me much at all this past year. But I did manage to make a new sim. And I'm pretty sure, this is a first for me.
The Punisher!
Your Punishment Awaits You: HERE
Hi! I love your objects made functional. My game feels more realistic! Is it possible for you to convert the training dummy from either 3 or 4 for building body skill? Thank you for your hard work. You keep my poor dummies fed 💜
4to2 B64 Training Bots Functional
These are 4to2 conversions from Sims 4 Game, low poly. They work like a punching bag.
Published: 9-24-2024 | Updated: N/A
SUMMARY
Here are the tycoon residences from Anno 2070 (Ubisoft, 2011). Buildings are available as lot/hood deco and some extras (smaller accents, building toppers, and connectors) are included for embellishing individual lots. Lot deco may be convenient for those who want to place these buildings on elevated terrain or on top of other buildings (see examples below).
Look for other anno-to-sims2 content on this site under the #co2anno hashtag. I’ve also written a tutorial for anno conversions HERE.
DETAILS
Requires all EPs/SPs.
§1-4K | Buy > Lighting > Misc and Hood Deco > Effects
§0 | Hood Deco > Effects
Items are mid-to-high poly and counts are slightly higher for hood deco. Also, buildings have a visibly grungy look and light up partially in night/hood view. There are some texture quirks since these are not meant for larger meshes.
ITEMS
*poly count range applies to all versions of each building
Worker 001-004 (506-2370 poly)
Citizen-Employee 001-004 (487-1221 poly)
Executive-Engineer 001-005 (424-2232 poly)
Leader-Executive 001-005 (446-3963 poly)
DOWNLOAD (choose one)
from SFS | from MEGA
COMPATIBILITY
Compatible with lighting mods. Some buildings may appear lit during both day and night.
Here are some in-game shots showing lot/hood versions.
CREDITS
Thanks: Simming, Blender, Github, and Anno Fan communities. Sources: Beyno (Korn via BBFonts), EA/Maxis, @I.play.Anno.2070 (via YouTube, 2022), Offuturistic Infographic (Freepik), Anno 2070 (Ubisoft, 2011), Anno 2070 Buildings, Anno 2070 Wiki.
TWENTY YEARS! SUL SUL!
Wow. It's insane to me that after 20 years, this game is still going strong and that I'm still making stuff for it (I am, despite the lack of uploads. I've got a new Marvel sim on the way, just gotta take pics).
What's even crazier is all the friendships along the way. What an amazing community!
Happy Birthday Sims 2 and all you crazy fans!
Revived from the archive! These made-but-never-released costumes for Magneto have now seen the light of day again! X-Men '97 has been so exciting and allowed me to relive the heyday of the 90's X-Men fandom. So I was super stoked to find these "lost" creations that I first teased back in 2018.
Tips on how to avoid and reduce the Pink Flashing - "Masterpost"
Look here for other masterposts!
What is the Pink Flashing?
The Pink flashing, also called Pink Soup, is a graphical error that occurs when the game thinks it has reached the limit of its memory capacity to read the game's textures even if your PC is much more powerful and the configurations made to the game itself are very high and can hold much much more.
When this arrives, gradually an object or sim will start flashing pink and purple or even EVERYTHING will start flashing pink.
This type of error can occur both in game and on Bodyshop, and as many people mistakenly think, it is NOT a symptom of corruption. And it's not even a hardware problem of your PC. It's not your PC's fault, it's not dying, it's simply the game that's unstable.
What should I do when this occurs?
First of all, DON'T PANIC, it's nothing serious. The only thing you need to do is save the game before it crashes (because yes, it usually crashes after the pink flashing occurs), close the game and reopen it. When you reboot it, the pink flashing will be gone.
AND don't worry if some previews of your sims remain pink. They will update as you play (the fastest way to update them is to have your sim change clothes or change their appearance in the mirror)
Is there a way to increase the graphics capabilities of my game?
Yes, there is, and you should do it regardless of the pink flashing, to make your game more stable. This will NOT eliminate the risk of pink flashing, but will reduce it and make the game crash after hours and hours of play rather than after a few minutes or half an hour as happens to some.
What you need to do is make your own graphic rules that adapt the game to your video card and install the 4GB patch. This guide from Pleasantsim explains how to install both (as well as providing other tips for stability and improving graphics)
Another tip that many give is to use the Sims2RPC Launcher by LazyDuchess, as many say it has made their game more stable, while others say it has increased their Pink Flashing, so I think it's very subjective whether using this launcher is better or worse.
Is there a way to eliminate it or avoid it?
There is no fix for this problem and there is no way to eliminate it, although LazyDuchess is doing some research to see if it can be done. BUT I can give you some advice on how to avoid it for as long as possible (it will still appear after a few hours, but I can tell you what to do to be able to play safely for as long as possible)
From my personal experience, I understand that pink flashing occurs when the game needs to read a lot of thumbnails (of hairs and clothes expecially) and when you visit too many lots in the same game session or you visit a single huge lot full of objects. So, what you need to do is:
Save before changing your sims appearance (whether it's a change of hair or clothes) because the game almost always tends to crash after a long or sometimes even short makeover session. (It depens on how many ccs you have)
Avoid changing your sims hair if you don't have to. One of the causes of pink flashing is reading all the thumbnails of the hair in the game, especially if you have a lot of cc hair and getting to the last page or halfway through is very tiring for you and for your game that have to read all the thumbnails. It doesn't matter if the game already has them cached, pink flashing doesn't care.
Avoid changing your sims clothes if you don't have to change them (so avoid needlessly looking at all the clothes you have, in your wardrobe or in shop mode as if it were your closet at home). Just like with hair, pink flashing is triggered by reading too many thumbnails, especially if you have a lot of cc clothes. As with hair, it doesn't matter if the game has already cached thumbnails of all the clothes you have. Pink Flashing doesn't care. BUT unlike hair, for clothes I found a solution (which I hope is not a coincidence that only works for me). Unfortunately this took away the pleasure of going to the shops to buy clothes, but it avoided crashes and Pink Flashing. Basically, I discovered (and I don't know why) that if I use Pescado Clothing Tool, for some mystical reason the game doesn't crash and doesn't trigger pink flashing (I can even spend hours scrolling through all my many ccs and it doesn't annoys my game at all)
Last but not least, pink flashing can also be caused by reading too many thumbnails in buy mode or visiting too many lots during the same gaming session. Unfortunately there isn't much to do here, my only advice is to save very often when you edit lots, and to avoid visiting different lots too much if you don't need to (don't worry, your sims don't suffer from claustrophobia and can stay in their homes very well). If you have to edit a lot of lots, use a game session ONLY for that, because changing lots and scrolling through the buy mode there will be a lot of pink flashing very soon, at some point. At least you will have the knowledge that it will arrive any moment and you won't have to stress while you are in live mode.
To summarize, pink flashing is triggered by:
Scroll too much hair pages in "edit appearance" mode.
Scroll too much clothes pages in "change clothing" mode.
Scroll too much furnitures in "buy/build mode"
Open/go in many different lots in the same game session.
Use very big lots with a lots of objects.
Apartment lots (these ones are a hell for PF)
AND the snow. Yes, when the terrain change in "snowy" mode, this trigger the PF a lot. You can disable the snow with mods if you want or simply save the game before the terrain changes and hope that it will not happen.
@brandinotbroke added that the shaders trigger Pink Soup. But when it comes to shaders this time it also depends a lot on the hardware capacity of your PC, and it's not just a game problem. Both the game's shaders themselves, additional shaders and default replacement shaders downloaded from the internet could cause problems. If you think this is the problem, the solution is to use the "userShader off" cheat. BUT this doesn't always mean that your computer can't handle that particular shader. Often some shaders need to be downloaded in their version to be compatible with other shaders. So try to differentiate the difference between an unsupported shader and a shader that is not compatible with another, always read the description of the creator's post carefully. (For example: the "Better Night Life" shader conflicts with Voielle's water shaders and for this reason there is a BNL shader compatible with Voielle's water. IF you used the normal shader instead of the compatible one, any object that works with BNL shaders will be affected by Pink Soup.)
@goingsimcrazy added that many hood deco, high quality setting, high DOF and lot impostors can trigger pink flashing. However, this is a mix between "your PC's hardware capabilities" and basically...player luck. Sometimes players with latest generation gaming PCs cannot handle the hood decos and players who play with toasters play surrounded by hood decos, so here isn't very clear how The Sims 2... decides its capacity and compatibility criteria. But anyway, if you think that your hood deco, lot impostors, high graphics qualities and DOF (distance of field) are TOO MUCH and that your PC cannot support them, simply deactivate and lower the graphics settings from the settings!
BUT @goingsimcrazy also pointed out a detail that I wanted to add too but forgot. Basically, deleting the thumbnails cache is of no use, it doesn't solve the pink flashing problem, in fact it makes it worse. I won't give you a computer lesson but in simple terms I'll explain it to you like this: caches are used to store information so that when you open a software, the software takes information from the cache file and speeds up its reading capacity. If you delete the thumbnails cache every two days what you are doing is practically punching yourself, because not only are you slowing down the game, but by doing so you force it to regenerate the thumbnails every single time, thus causing crashes and pink flashing. Delete the thumbnails ONLY if you have changed a huge number of default replacements and need to update the previews OR press CTRL + right click of the mouse on the individual preview you want to refresh.
Small clarification to finish:
Sometimes pink flashing is also caused by very long gaming sessions (so even if you don't do any of the things listed, at some point it will still happen, but I'm talking about more than 4/5 hours of gaming).
Many of the things listed may be stupid and already known, many of you will be reading and thinking "the genius has arrived", but I have seen many people suffer from pink flashing, not understanding what trigghed it and doing A LOT of the things that trigghed it the most. (I watched a lot of gameplay on YouTube where this happened).
So...I hope I helped someone and if someone know other things that trigger PF let me know, I'll add it to this post!
*Deep breaths* I shared three four outfits for the LBB shape for this months Garden of Shadows theme, Fashion is for Everyone / Unfinished Business. I've teased these in some gameplay pics, and they've been done for months, but I never uploaded them...until now! Link here, details under the cut!
LBB Athletic Tank w/ Lucilla Sneakers
This first outfit is the oldest and quite literally the reason I learned how to use Milkshape. I wanted an LBB athletic outfit with the Uni tank, gym shorts, and sneakers and damned if I didn't nearly lose my mind making it. But that's exactly what it is. The LBB uni tank comes from @julietoon-ts2 LBB Tank PJs, the shorts are from Godlimpingby's Christmas in July set, and the shoes are from this 4t2 pants conversion by @lucilla-sims. I could've mixed and matched colors all day, but you get these seven. Categorized for everyday and athletic and contain both fat(!) and preg(!!) morph - that's how you know how old these are, I hadn't learned my lesson yet.
Download:Â SFS
LBB Tank w/ Skinnies and WBP Sneakers
Next we've got another really old outfit - a casual outfit using the same tank, G-Knee's skinnies (which I got from Julie here), and these great sneakers converted by WeBluePeace. Six tank colors, the shoes are the same for each. Categorized as everyday, also contains fat and preg morph (this would be the last time).
Download:Â SFS
LBB Sleeveless Hoodies w/ Vans or Sneakers
Lastly, I'm combining two outfits because they are the exact same except for the sneakers. These are Fanseelamb's Playful Sleeveless Hoodies with Shorts with either GLB's sneakers OR  ImaginaryBoutique's 4t2 conversion of Darte's Vans Old Skool. Same recolors, I simply couldn't decide between the shoes so I made both. No morphs! Everyday and Athletic.
Download:Â SFS
Self aware moment: I know there is some texture repetition across these outfits, and truthfully I was very torn about even uploading these because some players may not like that (or maybe would prefer separates). But, 1). I originally made these for myself, 2). Separates for All is currently broken for me, so I'm using more full outfits again, 3). downloaders can pick and choose what they like and 4). if uploading the first functional mesh you ever made doesn't count as unfinished business, I don't know what does :)
Credits to lots of folks: Syn, JulieJ, Lucilla, GLB, WBP, Lifa (for meshing help), Fanseelamb, and ImaginaryBoutique. Everything is compressorized and clearly labelled in the folders, but let me know if you have any issues. Thanks!
(I forgot to add poly counts but i will do so tomorrow! The Vans are clearly the highest).
I‘ve received many questions about where to find various SkyBoxes and Horizons as seen in my gameplay screenshots so I thought I’d put together a list of custom content links that you can easily go through to pick and choose what best suits your game. Although they are all beautiful, I’ve put a star next to my most frequently used boxes.Â
Important: Please don’t forget to download SkyFix 2.1 by Simnopke AND Effects (FX) Default Replacement Cube by Lowedeus before downloading these into your game. Be sure to place skyboxes at the lowest part of any corner of map with the arrow pointing towards the corner.Â
HOOD-BASED SKYLINES/HORIZONS
Six Terrain Matching Horizons by dramallamadingdang ★
6 360 Degree Seasons-Ready Skylines by GreatCheeseCakePersona ★
City & Rural Skylines by GreatCheeseCakePersona
Mountain Skyline by GreatCheeseCakePersona
Neighborhood Horizons by Criquette uploaded by WitheredWillies
HOOD-BASED SKYBOXES
Great Sky of Totalitarianism by Lowedeus ★
Lowedeus Moving Clouds But Slower by plumbobbledÂ
The Great Sky Project Part. 1 by dramallamadingdang ★
The Great Sky Project Part. 2 by dramallamadingdang ★
GOS’s Spooky Dip by dramallamadingdang
Animated Wispy Clouds by dramallamadingdang
High Cirrus Clouds by dramallamadingdang
GCCP’s Green Mountain Skyline (Edited) by dramallamadingdang
Water & Sky by Psychosim
Water & Sky Recolours by nimi4
Water & Sky Recolours (Marlin Studio) by nimi4
SkyOmg by ja-viera ★
SkyOmg Recolours by phinaeÂ
SkyOmg Recolours by Keoni-chan ★
SkyOmg Recolours by poppet-sims ★
SkyOmg Recolours by simmiscellany ★
Off-world Set/Pack by GrilledCheese-Aspiration ★
Space Skies: Cygnus X, Barred Spiral Galaxy, Omega Centauri by Psychosim
Space Skies: Two Starry Hubble Images by silviansims Â
Space Skies, the familiar: Earth and Van Gogh by Psychosim
Space Skies: Nebula galore by Psychosim
“Space Sky. Space Sky! SPACE SKY!“ by Psychosim
Aurora Sky Recolors (GST recolour) by freezerbunny-sims
Skyboxes by Slig
Weather Atmosphere by Chris997
Colors In The Sky by DaniCast
Maelstrom Skies by just_jaspe
10 Skybox Recolors by kristyail
4 Recolors for The Sky Pt II by kristyail
19 Recolors for The Lot by kristyail
MISC (More to be added)
Invisible Sun, Moon and Star Defaults by Lowedeus
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If you know of any skyboxes other than what is listed, please send me a message or reply below so I can add it. I take zero credit for any of this custom content. Thank you to The Sims Community for supporting my work here on Tumblr and a BIG THANK YOU to the custom content creators for making this list possible.
***** If you are a creator and wish to have your link removed, please reply below or send me a message *****
