The Bookacy Family Alphabet Journal

Finally! I went to exchange the graphics card today. The store was very friendly, they only asked me for five euros more when I exchanged the card that was not broken in any way into a different one, for basically it was all my fault I didn't get it right the first time. Well, my friend plugged the card in, we downloaded the driver, restarted the computer and tried the game - it works! And this time, no blockiness, no grayed out smooth edges, no nothing. And it is pretty and fast, yay!

So, now unless anything else breaks (*knocks on wood* Some bad luck I've had with it, but now it finally looks to be fine. *knocks again*), I should be all set. I think I know what I'm doing this weekend. :)

Another one of these computer updates. My friend checked up the hard drive, and apparently, I didn't have a virus, but rather it was a false alarm from Windows Defender. So then, I was all set to get my stuff from the external hard drive and start installing stuff. So that's what I've been doing and am still doing. Late last night I did the install dance on TS2 and all my EPs and SPs. Today I checked that it starts and runs, and it does.

Also, it runs quite beautifully, it's never been this fast. (Granted, my cc and families aren't in yet, but even so, I'm totally grinning.) I was a little worried when I checked the graphics settings and saw the game had checked all the lowest ones on its own, and the "smooth edges" option was greyed out entirely, I thought maybe something was wrong and it'd look terrible. But I manually changed all the settings to the highest and entered a lot. Apparently, I needn't have worried. It looks beautiful. I tried to look carefully and with a critical eye, but to me it looks clearly better than it used to, so yay.

So now I still have to get bits and pieces like the Clean Installer and a camera hack and whatnot, and then carefully check that everything seems to be okay also with my cc in and that my hoods look intact and stuff. But again, I'm that much closer to actually getting to play. :)

So that's all good and moving and progressing, though not quite there yet. Meanwhile, have a picture of Dirk kiddified. (I meant to share this much earlier, but then my computer decided not to work and I only had my pictures on a hard drive I didn't dare to plug in, fearing viruses.)

Apparently it's been nearly a month. Oops. Well, since it has, I thought I could sit down and do a real life update since there is no simming update to be had.

( There's this thing called real life... )

So such is going on. Nothing too dramatic, really. Now just to hope that the computer thing sorts out soon. *crosses fingers again*

( Cut to save f-lists )

So yeah, it seems it's a hardware problem after all. But now I have a diagnosis, so heading towards a solution too, which is good.