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5 years ago

Playing Bridgeport problems

I've never played in Bridgeport before but decided to give it a try a couple weeks ago. I spent most of that time redoing the town and am just now starting to play a vampire family. There are three family members and all of them disappear and reappear at random. I don't know why. They don't stay invisible, but come and go. I've tried resetting them but it doesn't help. So I tried two different vampires, Merrick and Schlick, and they do the same thing. While it's fascinating, it's a bit of a pain.

Has anyone else had this happen?

And the city is sometimes very dark, sometimes light when I go into it.

I don't have any mods or cc.
  • I have several different saves in Bridgeport and have never experienced sims disappearing like you are describing. I don't have a clue as to what could be causing it.
    I do use a lighting mod so don't really know what normal would be for the light.
  • "nickibitsward;c-17349804" wrote:
    "Shadow_Assassin;c-17349664" wrote:
    I don't know what's "disappear and reappear, don't stay invisible, but come and go" mean, but if you mean "the city dark or light when into" was the sky randomly gloomy or clear when into the save, it's (very probably)normal. I only have nraas MC and resigner, the sky sometimes randomly gloomy or clear, although it wasn't like this when I last saved and quit


    I mean the Sims turn invisible randomly. They're sitting on the sofa watching tv, I tell them to go get the mail, they turn invisible going outside, reappear at the mailbox, disappear going back into the house. Then are fine for a while. Get off the kitchen chair and start upstairs, disappear. Reappear in the bedroom. Very strange.

    For the light/dark, even though it's daytime, bright and sunny, sometimes when I quit the game and go back in later, the city is dark.



    It's your graphic card not rendering them fast enough once they get off the elevator, going out the door or going up the stairs. It's not a problem with the world or lot or family. It could also be that an object might be blocking them from view without realizing it.

    As for when you reload and the game being dark that's a bug with Seasons it usually corrects itself after a few sim hours you can also trying reloading when you see it that way.
  • I don't know what's "disappear and reappear, don't stay invisible, but come and go" mean, but if you mean "the city dark or light when into" was the sky randomly gloomy or clear when into the save, it's (very probably)normal. I only have nraas MC and resigner, the sky sometimes randomly gloomy or clear, although it wasn't like this when I last saved and quit
  • "Shadow_Assassin;c-17349664" wrote:
    I don't know what's "disappear and reappear, don't stay invisible, but come and go" mean, but if you mean "the city dark or light when into" was the sky randomly gloomy or clear when into the save, it's (very probably)normal. I only have nraas MC and resigner, the sky sometimes randomly gloomy or clear, although it wasn't like this when I last saved and quit


    I mean the Sims turn invisible randomly. They're sitting on the sofa watching tv, I tell them to go get the mail, they turn invisible going outside, reappear at the mailbox, disappear going back into the house. Then are fine for a while. Get off the kitchen chair and start upstairs, disappear. Reappear in the bedroom. Very strange.

    For the light/dark, even though it's daytime, bright and sunny, sometimes when I quit the game and go back in later, the city is dark.

  • "bekkasan;c-17350372" wrote:
    I have several different saves in Bridgeport and have never experienced sims disappearing like you are describing. I don't have a clue as to what could be causing it.
    I do use a lighting mod so don't really know what normal would be for the light.


    These are all townie Sims, so I don't know either. And coincidentally (or not) all vampires. I am going copy the one family to the bin and play them in another world, see what happens.

  • Vampires and teleport so that's what they are probably doing. Why walk when you can teleport? :D Which townie family are you playing? Bridgeport weather is gloomy at times and it is suppose to be a big city with the noise, pollution and stuff :D
  • "ScottDemon;c-17350976" wrote:
    "nickibitsward;c-17349804" wrote:
    "Shadow_Assassin;c-17349664" wrote:
    I don't know what's "disappear and reappear, don't stay invisible, but come and go" mean, but if you mean "the city dark or light when into" was the sky randomly gloomy or clear when into the save, it's (very probably)normal. I only have nraas MC and resigner, the sky sometimes randomly gloomy or clear, although it wasn't like this when I last saved and quit


    I mean the Sims turn invisible randomly. They're sitting on the sofa watching tv, I tell them to go get the mail, they turn invisible going outside, reappear at the mailbox, disappear going back into the house. Then are fine for a while. Get off the kitchen chair and start upstairs, disappear. Reappear in the bedroom. Very strange.

    For the light/dark, even though it's daytime, bright and sunny, sometimes when I quit the game and go back in later, the city is dark.



    It's your graphic card not rendering them fast enough once they get off the elevator, going out the door or going up the stairs. It's not a problem with the world or lot or family. It could also be that an object might be blocking them from view without realizing it.

    As for when you reload and the game being dark that's a bug with Seasons it usually corrects itself after a few sim hours you can also trying reloading when you see it that way.


    You might be right about my graphic card (which is a good one, I have a gaming rig) not rendering them fast enough because the lot I am playing them on is large and loaded with stuff. They seem to be better on a smaller lot.

  • "nickibitsward;c-17351464" wrote:
    "ScottDemon;c-17350976" wrote:
    "nickibitsward;c-17349804" wrote:
    "Shadow_Assassin;c-17349664" wrote:
    I don't know what's "disappear and reappear, don't stay invisible, but come and go" mean, but if you mean "the city dark or light when into" was the sky randomly gloomy or clear when into the save, it's (very probably)normal. I only have nraas MC and resigner, the sky sometimes randomly gloomy or clear, although it wasn't like this when I last saved and quit


    I mean the Sims turn invisible randomly. They're sitting on the sofa watching tv, I tell them to go get the mail, they turn invisible going outside, reappear at the mailbox, disappear going back into the house. Then are fine for a while. Get off the kitchen chair and start upstairs, disappear. Reappear in the bedroom. Very strange.

    For the light/dark, even though it's daytime, bright and sunny, sometimes when I quit the game and go back in later, the city is dark.



    It's your graphic card not rendering them fast enough once they get off the elevator, going out the door or going up the stairs. It's not a problem with the world or lot or family. It could also be that an object might be blocking them from view without realizing it.

    As for when you reload and the game being dark that's a bug with Seasons it usually corrects itself after a few sim hours you can also trying reloading when you see it that way.


    You might be right about my graphic card (which is a good one, I have a gaming rig) not rendering them fast enough because the lot I am playing them on is large and loaded with stuff. They seem to be better on a smaller lot.



    Having a large lot with a lot of stuff yeah that'll slow the rendering down no matter how good a graphic card you have. I have Ryzen 7 2700x coupled with a Radeon RX 590 and that happens to me as well.