Hello! I just got the sims 3 installed on my desktop (Sims 3 Starter Pack) and I'm slowly getting used to how things work. It loads beautifully with no lag but I did have to adjust the screen ratio and fps because I kept getting this little screen tear, like you would see on a old TV, and the sims themselves in CAS looked a little glitchy, it's the best I can describe it. I'm adjusting the graphics off and on but I ran into a problem. I can't use my mouse wheel or the Z & X buttons to zoom in or out in the neighborhood like I would in the sims 2. I can rotate the camera with the wheel fine but I can't seem to do anything else. I haven't actually started playing yet, I've been turning off things that would create lag and testing to see if my desktop can handle high graphics but this is particularly concerning.

I've attached my dxdiag for those to read:

EDIT: I just got into the game and my mouse wheel and hotkeys work, just not in neighborhood view or map view. Is this normal or is there a mod to fix the camera?

Ah, just something I gotta get used to then. Thank you!

That's what I've been doing as I played tonight, but the muscle memory of using the mouse wheel to tilt from sims 2 runs deep . I'll be sure to write this down to memorize the more I play