So many office workers talking about starcraft 2.  Makes me wonder if its worthwhile to get or not.  I don’t have time for something as involved as this.  What do u think?

So I decide on picking up a copy of The Sims 3 on my way home from work because… I am a huge fan and I currently have extra time to kill.

I start the installation, OK, going, going, going… DONE!  It’s quick and painless.  So far so good.

I start the game up, and create my characters. I decide on creating just one guy to test things out.  So I go ahead and accessorize him and get some cool clothes n such.  It was amusing.  After pimping him out, I start the game and buy a house.  Once I move into the house, here’s where the game freaks out:

As you can see, the textures get all jacked up and it essentially looks like a broken laptop screen.  I just think to myself… Is there a fix?

So I go ahead and update my graphics drivers, do all of my windows updates, etc.  and still the same results.  I even lower the graphics to the LOWEST settings with the same results.

How can this be?  I don’t have the crappiest gaming system and I can play every other game at the highest resolution with no problems.  Far Cry 2 and Crysis work without any problems for me.  again, how can this be?

So… I sent in an e-mail to EA’s technical support along with my DXDiag reports and my screenshot.  I really hope they fix this.

AMD Phenom 9600BE

3GB Ram

ATI 3870 X2

Vista Ultimate 32bit

My favorite characters in TF2 are Spy, Pyro and Demoman.

What do you like to play?