Graphics or? Help!

[Minty]

Hi Nerjii, first of all do you know that you can take a screenpic in game by pressing C?

What you have done wrong here is download the d3dx9_31.dll file. Get rid of the one you downloaded, and never download any *.dll file on its own from the net - you never know what it might contain. It should always be as part of a program.

Once you've done that, install the latest non-beta version of Direct X. The version the above is from is Direct X 9.

If that doesn't work, check to see that your graphics card is updated.

If that still doesn't work, final option is it could be some file from the game itself is messed up. Uninstall and reinstall only your base Sims 3 game - do not uninstall anything else - and patch. Remember to move out your mods folder to a safe place when doing this and only put back in once you've finished installing and patching.

Let us know how you got on.