Image issues (yes, again) and a question.

[strangetomato]

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!

Comments

[will-o-whisper.livejournal.com]

Somebody's popular. ;)

As for the ceilings, this might be stupid question but are you sure they're toggled on? I've noticed mine go missing a few times, and it's always been because they'd turned themselves off for some reason. Otherwise, I have no idea.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

I've just seen the teaser of your newest chapter so I bookmarked it to read it as soon as I get home! :)

Hmmm... if you're playing with old downloaded houses, like Plasticbox's, you'll need to add the ceilings to the top floors. Even if they have "traditional" roofs, you'll need to add tiles under them.

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

I got a warning telling me I had used up x amount of my space, but I really hadn't. I don't know what's going on there — bandwidth, maybe? I mean, with my stuff popping up on all different sites (surely you saw the rant I posted, or at least the secret made in response?)

They could just be toggled off, but I'm pretty sure they'd be toggled off by default, which means that you would have had to have toggled them on to see them in the first place. But correct me if I'm wrong because I've only been using ceilings since OL started.

[(Anonymous)]

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.

[zepheera.livejournal.com]

My only answer about the toggles is the same as what others have posted. However I can assure you that you can back up your sims 3 saves by going to:

Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3

And then backing up both your Saves and your SavedSims folders.

When you uninstall the launcher will save any store content for you as well.

You could potentially save any of the folders in that directory that you want to as well.

[meetme2theriver.livejournal.com]

It's not The Sims 3. That simply takes up hard drive space, which has nothing to do with The Sims 2 and how it runs - game at runtime uses your RAM, not HD space.

Beyond that, I have no advice that hasn't been mentioned already, but don't go through the trouble of uninstalling TS3 unnecessarily. :)