When there is snow on the ground, the walls and floors of a house will cut away to show a road behind it. This is in Sunset Valley, with graphics options maxed out: This happens in multiple worlds, both EA-made and custom It happens with any open building that is currently rendered Floors and walls are affected, but not objects An object behind a wall but in front of a road will also show through the wall This only happens when the snow depth is greater than zero This does NOT happen if Advanced rendering is off; however, disabling the option prevents snow from displaying on the ground of a currently rendered lot, although snow-based interactions are still available.

@puzzlezaddict Thanks for that but I will live with it for now. I am playing a much smaller house in my neighbourhood and at first I thought it was all good - no missing bits - but then as soon as I turn the camera towards the road it happens. Not that there is any doubt but you are right about the road or footpath being the culprit. That also explains why I didn't see the glitch while my sims were at University as there were no roads near their dorm.

Hello. Same glitch is happening to me. I am so frustrated that ea would allow so many glitches. Almost as if on purpose. Black eyelashes, see through walls, purple borders, iffy resolution options, and omg does the list go on... But yes, this glitch is happening to me atm and I don't recall it happening any time before fall or winter. I can tell the game is showing the roads through the screen. My save file is 2 years old.

For some reason, the texture on the floor/wall of the high rise buildings in Bridgeport is see-through and shows the streets below. I put an image of the issue as an attachment, but basically, most ways you rotate the camera, the see-through street issue follows around and interrupts the walls/floors of the apartment. This issue has never come up for me before, so not entirely sure what it is, but does anyone have an idea of a possible fix?

@Dorabella123 If you want to make the effect disappear temporarily, just remove the snow cover. Bring up the cheats console (cmd-shift-C) and enter "testingcheatsenabled true" without quotes. Then shift-click on the ground and select Seasons > Snow Depth > None. You can always cheat it back later.

Thanks for all the info! Removing the snow ground cover fixed it for me, but a shame we can't use the snow now. Hopefully an update will come soon.

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puzzlezaddict

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[CURRENT ISSUE 64-bit] Walls/floors cut away to display snowy roads

When there is snow on the ground, the walls and floors of a house will cut away to show a road behind it. This is in Sunset Valley, with graphics options maxed out:

This happens in multiple worlds, both EA-made and custom
It happens with any open building that is currently rendered
Floors and walls are affected, but not objects
An object behind a wall but in front of a road will also show through the wall
This only happens when the snow depth is greater than zero

This does NOT happen if Advanced rendering is off; however, disabling the option prevents snow from displaying on the ground of a currently rendered lot, although snow-based interactions are still available.

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puzzlezaddict
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9 months ago
@SimMinnie79 There's no indication that we'll ever see a patch for this and other issues with the 64-bit version. But then again EA hasn't said there will be NO patch either, so we're kind of in limbo. At any rate, there's no fix now, other than disabling Advanced Rendering, which is less than ideal.

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