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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2009-09-14 07:14 pm

Image issues (yes, again) and a question.

I received another warning from Photobucket about my bandwidth today, so I've changed the setting on all of my older chapters to private until I'm able to switch them over to my scrapbook. This way, they won't just disappear completely until next month, and I can take on the much easier task of downloading them from the post and numbering them for re-posting, rather than hunting for them in the sea of images on my external drive and trying to figure out where every image belonged (which would not be fun). So you can expect me to post at least a couple of those chapters every day, depending on how busy I am. I'll try my best.

Current status: I've posted up as far as Chapter Eleven.

Also, I have a (maybe stupid) question. It's been a while since I've seen ceilings in my Sims 2 game. Could this be due to having Sims 3 installed, occupying space on my computer? If that's not the cause, then maybe I have a conflicting mod or piece of cc? Has anyone heard of something that makes ceilings disappear? I think I might uninstall Sims 3, just to see if I'm right. I sure hope you can back it up the same way... we'll see, I guess.

ETA:
It was the ceiling toggle. *slaps forehead* Sorry for inflicting my bad case of the Monday stupids on you all. This is why I posted this on my own journal instead of a public community. Now that would have been embarrassing!

(Anonymous) 2009-09-15 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
You're getting RAM confused with disc space.

Disc Space: The amount of space on your harddrive for stuff you have saved, games you have installed, etc.

RAM/Memory: Memory is where the computer puts stuff that is currently being edited/accessed/changed. If you open 3390892 word documents simultaneously, that takes a (relatively) large amount of RAM. If you create and save 3390892 word documents, editing them separately and not having them open at the same time, that doesn't take much RAM at all.

Graphics in TS2 are dependent on RAM (not disc space), which is dependent on your computer specs and the number of other things you have running at the same time you're running TS2 (including background stuff like anti-virus programs and auto-update programs). Having TS3 installed on your computer only takes disc space - unless you are actually running TS3 at the same time as you are running TS2, it should not affect your TS2 graphics.
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2009-09-15 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I realized that after posting this. I actually woke up this morning thinking about it and realized how stupid I must look now (but oh well, that's life). I did know that RAM is the thing to worry about. Afterall, I increased my RAM for that very reason.

I just didn't have any other explanation. *is embarrassed*

Thank you for this detailed reply.