Sims2 CAS blue screen pls HELP (sims2UC)

Okay guys (browser reset my window so my entire post got deleted as i was ab to post so this is gonna be fast)

Basically been playing the sims 2 Ultimate collection and its been wonderful reliving my childhood, but I wanted to change from the default res and fix my textures and stuff so i decided to start editing my file and everything even tried the one you guys offer on your site, (didnt fix my issue) but the resolution changes it made were correct and made it where i didnt have to find it lol.

Anyway the game is at 1920x1080 now and everything works, and looks amazing, HOWEVER when starting CAS it loads like normal then when it opens all I can see is a Blue screen apart from the UI in the regular spot at the bottom left corner, where I can do the normal things like Name my sim, add a sim, cat or dog to my family, but i cannot see the sim, or the background at all, not even off to any side (that im aware of, unless its just soooooo far off screen it makes it blue lol. I might also add that during all of this, the game remains functional, like i can edit the options, add people to the family, save game, load houses, make towns, all of it. But nothing at all except the UI pops up in the CAS.

Please help.. ive exhausted every bit of knowledge on the sims and computers that i have and i just cant seem to fix it, even reinstalled and its not working.

PC specs:
OS: Windows 10 64-bit, Home ed, Version 2004, Build 19041
Processor: Intel i7-3770 3.40GHz
RAM: 12gb
GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti (4gb)

I built this pc in 2011 and it had a AMD HD 7870, since then thats the only thing thats changed


Also have but not plugged in:
Onboard GPU: If i remember correctly its a Intel HD 4000?

PLS any help would be greatly appreciated.

  Graphics Rules.sgr.txt (Size: 33.31 KB / Downloads: 360)

Can you upload your -config-log.txt for me from \My Documents\EA\The Sims 2\Logs\

The likelihood if the CAS is not working but everything else is, is that you haven't put the graphic rules.sgr and video cards.sgr in the CSConfig folder.

I'll know better if you can send me the config-log.txt from both your game and your body shop load.
How you do this is
- load the game, save the config-log.txt from logs folder, and rename it game-config.txt.
- load bodyshop, save the config-log.txt from the logs folder, and rename it bodyshop-config.txt

upload them both here, and mention me so I know to come and have a look.

i swear i replied with this last night...

However, I finally went through and tried the uninstalling thing again, and to my surprise i got it right this time! I can now see everything in cas again, now i just need to fix the resolution and textures and ill be a okay.

Never figured out what caused my issue, seems to be like im literally the only one thats ever had it happen, but yeah. thanks anyways

@celebkiriedhel
Hellooo, reviving this thread a year and a half later, because I have the same exact problem and have been looking to fix it now, after fighting with it since forever. Just gonna piggyback off of the instructions...

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  bodyshop-config.txt (Size: 7.71 KB / Downloads: 163)
  game-config.txt (Size: 10.34 KB / Downloads: 152)

You need to copy the graphicsrules.sgr and videocards.sgr from the config folder to the csconfig folder.

Hellooo, reviving this thread a year and a half later, because I forgot I asked for advice on here, and my password. Sorry.

(24-05-2023 11:23 AM)HugeLunatic Wrote:  You need to copy the graphicsrules.sgr and videocards.sgr from the config folder to the csconfig folder.

You mean copy from
>C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\Config
into
>C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection\Fun with Pets\SP9\TSData\Res\CSConfig
right? Because that's what I did but this unfortunately didn't resolve the problem. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong game folder?

Again, sorry for not responding for a whole year, this time I'll bookmark the thread.

To me, it looks like you were indeed looking at the right folders. No idea why that wouldn't work. Hopefully someone can help you further soon.

(20-10-2024 07:52 PM)BoilingOil Wrote:  To me, it looks like you were indeed looking at the right folders. No idea why that wouldn't work. Hopefully someone can help you further soon.

Afraid that was the case (/. \) I did something I probably should've done way earlier, and that is trying to start the game with default settings, and turns out the problem persists, still, which would mean the culprit isn't anything GRM changes, wouldn't it? I could've sworn I hadn't had this problem years ago and that it started around the same time I finally set up GRM though. I took out every other mod, too, lightning and camera included, and yet...

Edit: The pic attached is what CAS looks like when starting the game set up as usual with GRM, which isn't all too different from without it--just 1920x1080 instead of 1600x1200.

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May I say I find those resolutions a bit odd? Did you accidentally mistype those??
Because 1900x1080 should actually be 1920x1080, and 1600x1300 should probably look more like 1600x1200.

If you actually used such weird values in the game, I'm not sure about it, but I think that might be the reason things went south.

Anyway, if you already removed everything else, maybe you should just uninstall the game entirely, find a good tool to remove all the TS2-related keys from the registry, then reinstall the game and do the settings right at once. But I do invite you to first wait a bit and see if other people have something good to say. My 'solution' should really be a last resort if nothing else helps anymore.

(21-10-2024 01:40 AM)BoilingOil Wrote:  May I say I find those resolutions a bit odd? Did you accidentally mistype those??
Because 1900x1080 should actually be 1920x1080, and 1600x1300 should probably look more like 1600x1200.

If you actually used such weird values in the game, I'm not sure about it, but I think that might be the reason things went south.

Anyway, if you already removed everything else, maybe you should just uninstall the game entirely, find a good tool to remove all the TS2-related keys from the registry, then reinstall the game and do the settings right at once. But I do invite you to first wait a bit and see if other people have something good to say. My 'solution' should really be a last resort if nothing else helps anymore.

Yours are the very messurements *facepalm* Sorry, I didn't went to check for sure and just went by memory. I got totally normal, average run-off-the-mill dimensions for my laptop, I will edit that to prevent further confusion, thanks for pointing that out. Reinstalling is what I was afraid of doing, I will ask around for some more but if there seems to be no solution this unfortunately seems to be what I have to do :< thanks