I can play Seasons fine but when the season changes to Autumn (Fall) this happens:
All the leaves disappear off the trees but do not lie on the ground, they just disappear. In Map View the trees look gloriously autumnal in loads of different colours. The ground seems to rise up and looks really blocky and crap. In the 4th and 5th pictures those are water lilies you can see floating above the house! You can only see this blockiness from certain angles - camera low down to the ground looking up mainly.
When the full moon kicks in the graphics return to normal.
When the season changes to Winter everything is normal again and leaves are back on the trees:
As you can see there is nothing wrong with the graphics so it's not a driver issue.
Specs:
2012 15" MacBook Pro
OS 10.8.2
2.6Ghz Intel Core i7
8Gb 1600MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
- I have no Mods or 3rd party CC, a completely vanilla game.
- I'm playing in one of my worlds, BlueBay Retreat which 100% does not have any 3rd party CC.
- My game is patched up to date 1.42.130.019002.
- I have all EPs and SPs to date apart from Showtime, Sweet Treats and Diesel.
- Memories are off. I'm logged into the launcher but not logged in for the social aspect in-game.
- All my installs are from disc, no digital downloads.
Just to clarify, the game isn't crashing or freezing, I've had it playing for about 8 hours today.
This only happens in the Fall season.
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BluebellFlora -
2012 15" MacBook Pro
2.6Ghz Intel Quad Core i7
8Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
OS 10.8.2
Patch 1.42
shortmikez -
2012 15" MacBook Pro
2.6Ghz Intel Quad Core i7
8Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
OS 10.8.2
Patch 1.42
yenial -
2012 15" MacBook Pro
2.3Ghz Intel Quad Core i7
8Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
OS 10.8.1
Patch 1.42
Datch -
2012 15" MacBook Pro
2.3Ghz Intel Quad Core i7
8Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 512Mb
OS 10.8.2
Patch 1.42
via crinrict -
2010 13" MacBook Pro
2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 256Mb
OS 10.7.5
Patch 1.42
Spectacularly -
2010 15" MacBook Pro
2.66Ghz Intel Core i7
4Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512Mb
OS 10.6.8
Patch 1.42
BethandMolson
2012 15" MacBook Pro
2.6Ghz Intel Quad Core i7
16Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
OS 10.8
Patch 1.42
BodaciousFun -
2008 15" MacBook Pro
2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
2Gb RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 8600M 256Mb
OS 10.5.8
Patch 1.42
It's ONLY in Autumn, all other seasons are fine and the full moon event (when everything has a greenish tinge to it) temporarily stops it. Think I may post in Crin's thread too. No guarantee this will be seen over here :evil:
Does it do it other worlds?
Processor 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
I am playing sunlit tides. Only the festival lot has been doing that the rest of the world seems ok. It started in Autumn and continued on with the winter festival. My sims house is fine and the leaves did fall on the ground. If you move in and out of the festival lot with the camera you can get some screen shots without it but it is not great. I have never had this before seasons.
Edited to include screenshots from the winter festival.
Thanks to Crinrict who's come across this before as it's in her bug thread. It seems to be the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb which is the culprit.
Not game breaking like so many others are unfortunately experiencing but yet another issue that only EA can fix :evil:
BluebellFlora I posted my topic in the Seasons and someone thinks its to do with the game not rendering fog properly. I guess that was just a suggestion.
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Yes please Crin! I'm going to do a quick entry on mine. I've covered the other threads already but not yet this one.
I have a mid 2011 iMac with a ATI radeon 6770M hd graphics card. So far my game with seasons has played great. The only season i've experienced is summer. Hopefully your graphics will go back to normal.
I'm sure you don't mind if I borrow some of those pics
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Sorry, I don't have Super Natural as I had no interest in that expansion.
Please tell us how fall plays out for you
If you have any news, please let me know in the bug thread.
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I hope EA will soon release a patch to fix it.
My specs:
2012 15" MacBook Pro
OS 10.8.1
2.3Ghz Intel Core i7
8Gb 1600MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024Mb
-No mods or CC's.
-The game is patched.
-Memories are off and I am not logged in the game.
-All of the EP's and SP's and the base game are installed from the original CD's.
My specs:
Early 2011 13” MacBook Pro
2.7Ghz Intel Core i7
16Gb RAM
Intel HD 3000 512Mb
OSX Mountain Lion
- All EPs and SPs
I did not encounter this new graphics glitch last night and makes me realize.. could be because I upgraded my RAM to 16Gb before Seasons was released? Hmmm..