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Werusek-2000's avatar
4 years ago
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Pets... sometimes stretch when idle...?

So... pets... stretch? Mostly when idle, but just anytime. They stretch into these long, tall, stingy weird-like forms as if they're trying to morph into the skeleton of a sim...? I heard this is a bug, not an issue with a graphic card because apparently some animations haven't been fixed. So my question is- is EA going to fix this problem? Ever? I know they've given up on Sims 3 but it's disconcerting, and this has happened to me so many times- all across different computers and systems so I know it's not an issue on my end. It's just honestly horrifying and freaks me out every time, I usually pan my camera away from pets because of how freaky it is. So I just want to know if there will ever be a fix for this. Even like a mod that prevents this?

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    3 years ago

    @Werusek-2000  Graphics glitches shouldn't happen because of overheating.  In theory, that might appear to happen:  A slightly overheating graphics card or chip, that's therefore throttling its workload to keep from getting even hotter, could be slow to render an object (or sim), or render it in a stuttery way, and thus cause what looks like a graphical glitch.  However, that's not really a glitch per se, just a slowdown.  And it wouldn't account for what you're seeing.

    A GPU that's overheating more than just a little bit, more than throttling could compensate for, would simply cause the game to crash.

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  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    @Werusek-2000  Graphics glitches shouldn't happen because of overheating.  In theory, that might appear to happen:  A slightly overheating graphics card or chip, that's therefore throttling its workload to keep from getting even hotter, could be slow to render an object (or sim), or render it in a stuttery way, and thus cause what looks like a graphical glitch.  However, that's not really a glitch per se, just a slowdown.  And it wouldn't account for what you're seeing.

    A GPU that's overheating more than just a little bit, more than throttling could compensate for, would simply cause the game to crash.

  • Werusek-2000's avatar
    Werusek-2000
    3 years ago

    I looked back through this thread and did everything you told me. After a while, I played a few hours with two dogs in the family and BAM! I haven’t had a single one of those horrifying jump scares! So you were right, thank you so much.