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[TVM] MissChloe Jan 31 @ 9:37am
Shadows - Anyone know how to turn it on?
Anyone know how to turn on the shadows? It's grayed out.
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Originally posted by gliv:
You have to go into a family to turn on shadows. Doesn't work in the neighbourhood.
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Sclurp Jan 31 @ 9:40am 
Shadows caused a graphical glitch when running TS2 on modern hardware. It looks like they've put zero effort into fixing this for the re-release, and just prevented people from turning it on.
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Stevilknievel Jan 31 @ 9:42am 
What the user above posted is simply not true. Shadows can be enabled and disabled once you choose a household to play.
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gliv Jan 31 @ 9:44am 
You have to go into a family to turn on shadows. Doesn't work in the neighbourhood.
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McLovin Jan 31 @ 9:44am 
Since this is just a re-release and not a remaster you can just follow one of the many guides to get the option working again on Youtube, I have the older Ultimate collection and shadows need to be enabled through a notepad file where the game is saved I think.
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Ari Jan 31 @ 9:53am 
Originally posted by TopBadger:
Originally posted by Sclurp:
I own TS2 on the EA App

Bro everyone does it was free like 10 years ago but we're talking about the game on steam.
it was released on steam AND on EA app. there's no discussion section on EA app so they're looking for some help here (i guess) :D

why so nervous?
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BO⚡NETE® Jan 31 @ 9:54am 
This used to work on origin and ea desktop complete collection https://modthesims.info/d/569585/sim-shadow-fix.html , I didn't played steam version yet.
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Sclurp Jan 31 @ 9:54am 
Originally posted by Ari:
Originally posted by TopBadger:

Bro everyone does it was free like 10 years ago but we're talking about the game on steam.
it was released on steam AND on EA app. there's no discussion section on EA app so they're looking for some help here (i guess) :D

why so nervous?

Imagine getting salty over a discussion about shadows in The Sims 2, in a Steam forum. Deary me.
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TopBadger Jan 31 @ 9:59am 
Originally posted by Ari:
Originally posted by TopBadger:

Bro everyone does it was free like 10 years ago but we're talking about the game on steam.
it was released on steam AND on EA app. there's no discussion section on EA app so they're looking for some help here (i guess) :D

why so nervous?

Because he's lying and posting misinformation lmao
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Sclurp Jan 31 @ 10:01am 
Originally posted by TopBadger:
Originally posted by Ari:
it was released on steam AND on EA app. there's no discussion section on EA app so they're looking for some help here (i guess) :D

why so nervous?

Because he's lying and posting misinformation lmao

Badger, there IS a graphical glitch with shadows in The Sims 2. The user BO posted a link to a mod that fixes it. It is well known.
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big bungo Jan 31 @ 10:15am 
Originally posted by Sclurp:
Badger, there IS a graphical glitch with shadows in The Sims 2. The user BO posted a link to a mod that fixes it. It is well known.
the shadow glitch is only present in the original version, it was fixed in this version. EA straight up took the source code of that mod and put it into the rerelease (without permission or credit btw)

anyway, to answer op's question: you have to enter a household to enable shadows. it can't be enabled from town view
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Sclurp Jan 31 @ 10:17am 
Originally posted by big bungo:
Originally posted by Sclurp:
Badger, there IS a graphical glitch with shadows in The Sims 2. The user BO posted a link to a mod that fixes it. It is well known.
the shadow glitch is only present in the original version, it was fixed in this version. EA straight up took the source code of that mod and put it into the rerelease (without permission or credit btw)

anyway, to answer op's question: you have to enter a household to enable shadows. it can't be enabled from town view

Thanks for the tip re enabling shadows in the household.
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[TVM] MissChloe Jan 31 @ 10:29am 
Originally posted by Sclurp:
Originally posted by big bungo:
the shadow glitch is only present in the original version, it was fixed in this version. EA straight up took the source code of that mod and put it into the rerelease (without permission or credit btw)

anyway, to answer op's question: you have to enter a household to enable shadows. it can't be enabled from town view

Thanks for the tip re enabling shadows in the household.
Thank you!
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satioh Jan 31 @ 1:53pm 
Don't put shadow on high quality. If they haven't fixed it, it will create a black box under your sims. Medium quality works fine though.
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[TVM] MissChloe Feb 1 @ 9:06am 
Originally posted by satioh:
Don't put shadow on high quality. If they haven't fixed it, it will create a black box under your sims. Medium quality works fine though.
Thanks!
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