I can't find where anyone else has reported this so apologies if I missed it.
I am playing in a custom world and it is winter time so lots of snow and snow storms. I play with the walls half down in my houses and have just noticed gaps in the walls. It seems to depend on the angle but the gaps also appear in neighbouring houses too. I took this photo from inside my sims' house. You can see there is a big piece missing from the top of the wall.
I have just played through University in the winter and I didn't see this graphics glitch there so it is strange to see it now. Winter has only just begun in this neighbourhood and the graphics glitch came with winter.
It doesn't do anything i.e. my game doesn't crash or run slower or anything. It's just a minor annoyance and disappears if I change the angle. It's just a bit odd.
@Dorabella123 That's definitely strange, but it actually looks to me like what's happening is that the road is showing in front of the walls. Is that what you see when you change the angle? I did see one other comment that looked to be the same issue, but that person never got back to me, so I don't know if the effect was consistent or if maybe there was something else going on with the walls.
To me, it's more like there is a strip missing from the walls so you can see the outside but I can see in the photo where it looks like the road outside is overlapping the walls.
It can get worse than the picture I posted but other times it will just be a thin strip of see-through wall.
Editing to add some more pics. These were intended as pictures of the sims rather than the glitch but you can see it happening on a different floor of the same house and No 3 is in another house in the same neighbourhood.
@Dorabella123 The first two screenshots look like there might still be a road outside; I can't tell what's going on with the third. If you let me know which world(s) and lot(s) are in your screenshots, I can take a look myself. Or, if you're comfortable, you can upload the save to a free filehosting site and send me the link. If you don't want to post it in this thread, feel free to PM me the link instead.
Either way, I'll take a look, but it'll have to be tomorrow... or rather, later today when it's not the middle of the night.
Please also attach your deviceconfig.log, in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3. I think you might have provided it before, but it would be helpful to have it specifically in this thread, so anyone else with the issue can compare hardware or graphics settings. As always, feel free to delete your user and comptuer names, about 20 lines down, but the file doesn't contain any other personal information.
I always have "hail, rain, fog, and snow" unchecked when playing. I noticed that the glitch the others are having, has been happening for me too. I decided since it was "snow day" I would turn the snow on. The glitch got real bad.
I did take pics and hope you can see them (not tech savvy here)
@caprice812 I've merged your post with another thread on the same issue. I think the roads are showing through the walls, although not necessarily through other objects on or in front of the walls, but I haven't been able to test this myself. If you're comfortable sharing your save, I'd like to check it out. You can upload it to a free filesharing site and either post the link here or PM it to me. If you don't want to do that, please at least let me know what world you're playing in and what lot is in your screenshots; the address of the lot is fine.
Please also attach your deviceconfig.log to a post; it's in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3. (You'll need to manually open the folders; the file won't show up in a search.) You can delete your user and computer names, about 25 lines down, but there's nothing else in that file that can identify you.
@Dorabella123 I don't at all mind installing a custom world or any other custom content. It's not much trouble at all, and anyway that's what clean user folders are for.
@caprice812 Those pics looks exactly the same as what is happening in my game.
@puzzlezaddict I sent you my save and a copy of the world file via DM. Hopefully it works.
@puzzlezaddict This goes under "Gaps in walls in snow" where you asked for more info from me.
I am playing in Bridgeport. 6979 Lanndgraab Loop (close to the grocery store).
I am comfortable in sharing my save, I just don't know how (but still searching). I do have imgur but I don't know if I can save it there (only used it for pics when sims4 came out).
@caprice812 I've merged your post with the existing thread. There are plenty of ways to share your save, but the easiest, if you have a gmail account, is through Google Drive. Sign into Google, open Google Drive, zip your save folder together (in Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 3 > Saves), drag the .zip file to the browser window, and it should upload. Then right-click and Get Link; make sure that anyone with the link can download.
