I am finally on vacation!  I haven\'t had one since November, so I feel like I\'m long overdue.  Finally a chance to relax and play Sims 3.  And, to my amazement I see there\'s an update.

After searching through the forums and much soul-searching, I decided to download the update.  The speed issue was really getting on my nerves.  Before I downloaded it, I decided to go ahead and uninstall the Sims 2.  I haven\'t played it since June 1st, so why keep it around?  First I burned all the CC I had, then went ahead and said goodbye to TS2.

Much to my astonishment, the patch worked for me.  Not one single problem.  The game loaded, I didn\'t lose anything, and the speed zipped right along!  YAY!

Then I played for awhile, and guess what?  All of a sudden, my sims outfit turned flesh colored.  Weird.  No matter what I did, it wouldn\'t go back.  Everything else was fine, all other outfits were fine.  Then I went into CAS to see if I could fix it there.  When I exited CAS back to the game I had the dreaded soft crash.  That hasn\'t happened to me since the second day of playing.  <sigh>  I was truly hoping soft crashes were behind me. 

I\'m going to relax for a bit and be back later.  Hopefully the bugs will have worked themselves out by the time I return.

Oh the joy of a new game...full of bugs, bugs, bugs!  But what else is new?  It\'s almost standard now-a-days.  The programers and creators must not play the way the rest of us \"gamers\" do....if they did, how could these things be missed?

My computer surpasses all specs.  My drivers are all updated.  I have a more than adequate power supply to run it all.  So why does my screen go black for no apparent reason?  <sigh>

Yesterday I actually played for a few hours with no problems....or so I thought.  I saved every 30 minutes or so and I never faded to black.  Of course, when I tried to load that save today, it\'s saved under a different name I\'ve never heard of, the family picture is outlines, and it won\'t load.

Okay, no huge deal.  I go into Riverview, create a household, move them in, get their relationship nice and high, go to move them and the program stops responding (it\'s stuck on \"processing\").  Up comes the task manager....redo all that I just did, go to move them and guess what?  Yes, the program stops responding.  UGH! I\'m not sure if it\'s a problem with the house they\'re currently in or the house I\'m trying to move them to, or something I can\'t even imagine being wrong. 

I guess I\'ll go back and try again.  Does anyone even read these blogs?  If not, it\'s good to vent somewhere other than the forum,  I guess :)

so the game, prima guide, and new graphics card arrived today while I was asleep (I work nights).  I set my alarm to get up 2 1/2 hours early.  I loaded the game to see how it looked on my current card....it looks pretty good but lagged a little, so I asked my bf to switch out to the new card while I got ready for work.  

Long story short, when I left it still wasn\'t done.  Now he called, and said the internet is down (there some thunderstorms), but he thought maybe he didn\'t have the DSL hooked up right.  Then someone here said their DSL was down at home, too....so now the new card is in but the drivers can\'t be updated! 

Hopefully this will work itself out in the next few hours! 

Happy Simming!