INFO

The Sim's thought bubble in the screenshot best describes my initial thoughts when I noticed the screen distortion of TVs that began occuring with the January 7, 2016 game patch. I couldn't figure out what was going wrong with my game. Tried a game repair, but that didn't help. Finally last night I searched for a solution as surely this was happening to someone else? Quickly I found that it's happening to everyone else. Lots of folks are crying for a game option to turn that junk off, but apparantly EA thinks that if the game is sped up the video should look like a low quality VCR from the '80s.

Seems to me that if the TV looks like that sped up (which mine doesn't) then so should the Sims, right?

Or even better, let's just go back to the old way. The effect is easily turned off in the XML, but that requires a separate patch to every TV object and makes it so that any other TV mods would conflict with a mod to turn off that effect. So my answer was, of course, turn to the Python script.

This script just overrides the Python that sets up that effect to always turn it off - for every TV in every game pack, modded TVs, even new TVs that haven't been made yet. The mod name says it all.

Well, almost all. A Simmer pointed out that there was also a static noise that was replacing the audio for the video. I run with sound off or my own music playing over the game typically so I hadn't noticed. So now two new flavors of the mod are available. One just turns off the static effect, and the other removes the "mute" feature entirely from video clips so the sound for them will play normally.

-Scumbumbo

INSTALL

The functionalities of this mod is included in MCCC by Deaderpool

To download MCCC click the Download link at the top of this page.

EXTRA

Additional Credits

• EA, of course, for continuing to provide me with the "WTF?" moments that inspire my mods.

• Oh, and Scripthoge as usual for the script injection method used.