white flickering in sims 2?

[David444]

So I finally got the laptop, and the next day right away I upgraded it to windows 8.1. I downloaded the sims medieval, and the pirates and nobles ep from origin and they work perfectly! (I know many people have trouble with those games and windows 8). So now all that's left, is to install the sims 2 and all the ep's. (I have to wait for an external disc drive to be ordered. grr) Now I know these games will work on 8.1, as I have them on my desktop, but I keep getting white flickering, on the screen. I don't know who to blame for that. Is it windows 8.1, or the weak intel hd graphics? Also I got a new 3ds, ant the data does save to the game card.)

 

[jaguarskx]

It's actually an issue with Win 8. I was researching this for some other people last month were there actually over 2 dozen posts regarding Win 8 and Sims 2. Is the Sims 2 actually still very popular?

Many people either could not play Sim 2 in Win 8 at all or they were encountering other issues. One issue is what you are currently experiencing. The Sims 2 ran fine in Win 7, but when upgraded to Win 8 they started experiencing white flickering. I have not come across any solution regarding the white flickering issue in Win 8.

Intel HD 4000 / HD 4200 / HD 4400 and HD 4600 graphic cores are fine for playing the Sims 3 from my research so they should also be fine for the much older Sims 2 game.

 

[David444]

Oh. So I am going to have to downgrade. Darn. I was hoping after downloading the medieval games, and playing them I wouldn't have to. Oh man.