Image quality, Super Duper Hugs, and writing.

[strangetomato]

Has anyone else noticed their images degrading in quality when they upload them to scrapbook now? For example, the image below seems like it gets sharpened considerably when I upload it, and you can see those lines in the background much more and the hair seems redder (it was taken with the in-game camera). I'm just curious to see if anyone else is experiencing this.

Ron Story, who lives in the House of Fallen Trees in Downtown Elsewhere, is now a teen. And cute. ^_^

I've also noticed I have the menu option for "DEBUG - Super Duper Hug" in the game when I play it right now. I'm reading this thread and see that it is/was hack related. I haven't added back many hacks yet (just MATY stuff and the no red lines mod as of last playing), so I'm assuming this happened when I removed a hack? Anyway, I'm following the advice linked above and I hope that fixes it.

I've also been thinking of setting a bit of a sim story writing goal for myself in the spirit of NaNoWriMo. I don't think I'll declare it publicly, since life can be hectic and my simming time follows my other priorities (in order of parenting, sleep, eating/washing myself, laundry, and maybe cleaning the house) but I have something in mind. We'll see how it goes. ;)

Comments

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

Have you recently upgraded to Windows 7? I had that problem with Gadwin when I upgraded. There are some fixes for it that didn't work for me, but what ended up working was playing in windowed mode and setting the program to capture the client window.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yes, my new PC runs Windows 7. I'll look into checking the Irfanview site for fixes for that. Thanks!

I considered trying windowed mode, as I don't normally use it, but I don't even see that option in the in-game menus. I just googled it and there was some mention of typing in "-w" at the end of the .exe file. I would've figured there was a simpler in-game way to do it. Both Sims 1 and Sims 3 seem to have it in the menus.

[skellington7d.livejournal.com]

Yep, you have to type that in the target shortcut. (weird that it's not in the settings) I was reluctant to try that but it turns out my game loads much faster windowed! (and it's easier to multitask :P)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I tend to be reluctant about messing with things like that, too, but this seems simple enough. :) I'm going to try it.

My game runs so much faster now, anyway. It loads in a minute or two and Bodyshop within a minute. It's great. Lots don't take 5 minutes to load anymore, and I used to just load the game or Bodyshop and walk away to do something else for a while. XD Even faster would be a dream.