The Life and Times of Brandi Broke - a Sims 3 Let's Play

Hey, Doons. I love the idea of this Let's Play, but I have some questions/concerns.

I just want to inquire about something - I see in the bottom right of your screen that your computer is begging you to activate Windows. Have you never put in an activation key? It should be noted that you only have 30 days to activate your copy of Windows before features won't be available to you.

As for the bell sound, there could be a number of things causing it, so I'll just help you disable it.

-By the date and time on your taskbar, there is a sound icon. Right click this and select, "Sounds"
-In the middle of the newly opened window, there is a section titled "Program Events." Scroll down this list until you find "Default Beep
-Click Default Beep to highlight it. Then under "Sounds" at the bottom of the window, click the dropdown menu that should be on "Windows Background." Scroll all the way to the top of the dropdown menu and click "none", then hit "apply." This should disable the annoying bell sound.

However, it should be noted that this sound is apart of different events as well, so you might need to make those changes on any of the following events. Just keep in mind that some of these could be important notifications. The other events that use this sound are:

-Asterisk
-Exclamation
-Low Battery Alarm
-System Notification


Just got to the part where you say it is your recording software causing it. What are you using, if I may ask?

Thanks Emily! I have now both activated windows and got rid of that bell sound. Though the bell sound will persist for a while as I did a few eps before I figured it out.

The program I'm using to record is Corel's Live Screen Capture, which is pretty good and doesn't seem to cause lag the way I remember Fraps did. But it won't let me type unless the game is in windowed mode, but other than that I like it.

I think I'm improving with everything with each episode... I think! :)

@Doons99P You should look into using OBS: https://obsproject.com/ It's a really good recording software that is used by most people I know. :smiley: I have used it before and it is very smooth and causes no lag that I could detect.

I enjoyed your first episode despite the bell :tongue: And I think it's a great idea to go from game to game chronicling the life of Brandi Broke. She was always one of my favorites from TS2 as well! And I've watched quite a bit of your TS2 machinimas and enjoyed them a lot as well.

Glad you were able to get Windows activated! I was afraid for a moment you may have bought a secondhand PC and didn't get the activation key or it had a pirated version of Windows 10 installed. D: That wouldn't have been good.

I look forward to your future episodes! :smiley:

Day 2 is now available for viewing!

https://youtu.be/Sx6wcYHK-0M

Thanks Emily! Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the tip about OBS. I'll definitely check it out :)

And here's Day 3...

https://youtu.be/SZ80RQz1Z2E

I haven't updated this thread in a while, but the show has continued. We're now up to Day 7!

https://youtu.be/hAoP4VWJyI0