gurlgonebonkers
16th Feb 2006, 5:05 AM
Alright. I've searched and searched thinking someone HAD to have had the same problem somewhere. No. I recently upgraded my video card from a nvidia 5200 to a ge-force 6600. I have gone through about 3-4 different drive updates to possibly locate the one that is not working for me. All of them leave me with the same problem. When I load CAS, I see no sim standing there, and I see no mirror or the circular platform that is usually there. I'm at a loss for what it could be. I'm about thisclose to taking the video card back and making do with the 5200 which would be unfortunate, because I have seen a significant difference in the game otherwise.
Some other info that may help? I was playing Age of Empires III which worked fine on the 5200 but crashed while playing higher settings with the 6600. I ended up getting a new power supply unit (I previously had a 250W and the min req. for the 6600 was 300--I now have a 400W). Everything is running fine. Everything but the MAJOR issue of no sim in CAS. I can't create families. :( I hope someone has an idea of what's going on or can help push me in a different direction. No, it's not custom content. I had absolutely no problems with anything until changing my video card. At this point, I rolled back to the 78.01 driver. It was the only one that didn't put those funky looking black lines in my neighborhood view. I tried the newest one--82.12 and also tried rolling to 81.98. ugh
Oh, I'm not sure if this would matter, but the only mods I have made were the ones to put bumps on my 5200 (which originally did not) and also fixed a file for those shortcuts for cheats (i.e.--rotate 45). If anyone has the original files for those, I would be most grateful. I'm willing to try anything!
Some other info that may help? I was playing Age of Empires III which worked fine on the 5200 but crashed while playing higher settings with the 6600. I ended up getting a new power supply unit (I previously had a 250W and the min req. for the 6600 was 300--I now have a 400W). Everything is running fine. Everything but the MAJOR issue of no sim in CAS. I can't create families. :( I hope someone has an idea of what's going on or can help push me in a different direction. No, it's not custom content. I had absolutely no problems with anything until changing my video card. At this point, I rolled back to the 78.01 driver. It was the only one that didn't put those funky looking black lines in my neighborhood view. I tried the newest one--82.12 and also tried rolling to 81.98. ugh
Oh, I'm not sure if this would matter, but the only mods I have made were the ones to put bumps on my 5200 (which originally did not) and also fixed a file for those shortcuts for cheats (i.e.--rotate 45). If anyone has the original files for those, I would be most grateful. I'm willing to try anything!