In my sims game (TS2), whenever i go into a neighborhood, the terrain looks identical to when you are in a lot looking at the grass close up, with high defenition, instead of the normal color. i have not tested this in a non-lush neighborhood or a non-summer neighborhood. i own all EP's and SP's and have downloaded all patches that i got told to when i installed the game (there was a link to a webpage with paches on it) and am not sure how to fix this. when i am in a lot the terrain looks normal.

please help

Could you post a screen shot? I'm not sure what you mean.

You might also want to provide your system specs:
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title...lp:System_Specs

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OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Manufacturer Acer
System Model Aspire 5733
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz, 2399 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Acer V1.06, 07/09/2011
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514"

Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.74 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.17 GB
Total Virtual Memory 5.48 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.84 GB
Page File Space 2.74 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Where is your graphics card? Do you have a graphics card? If not, that's probably your problem:
http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title...nboard_Graphics