Tag: help please

Help?

Yesterday I added Takemizu Village and Three Lakes to Mayberry (Twikkii Island already exists, it’s where Angelino and Carmen spent their honeymoon). 

I just sent a couple to Takemizu (after first going to the hood to add pool tiles to water lots, no issues encountered) and when the couple left home, the load screen came up for Takemizu and then after a couple minutes my game crashed. As mentioned, I’ve sent Mayberry sims to BV hoods before so not sure what the issue is. Any help or suggestions?

I did recently follow @meetmetotheriver ’s stealth hood disablement tips, might that have anything to do with it?

Sunlit Tides lots

Does anyone know where I can find good unmodified floorplan pics of TS3 lots? I’m specifically looking for ones from Sunlit Tides (and even more specifically, the Pleasant house). I’d like to try recreating some in TS2 (not as beach lots though) and google is failing me.

Thanks in advance!

Seeking recommendations

OK, I’ve recently used Bulk Rename Utility to change all the – to _ in my cc folder, but I have not noticed any improvement in my load times (I’ve also already compressed most everything and removed other spaces and characters).

Next step (other than the always required culling) is subfoldering. Currently my system is, for example: Downloads/Tumblr/Mikexx2/Hair/Ade Jennifer. I realise this is probably the problem now, being 4-5 folders deep, but I don’t really know how to fix it in a way that still satisfies my ocd (though my Pinterest alleviates that somewhat).

Edit: not sure if these are just urban legends, but apparently the game has limitations on the amount of folders: any more than 2 deep and any more than 200 in the one location borks things?

What’s some of your subfoldering measures that have improved your load times?

Tech help required

Hi all! I’m hoping you can help with an irritating laptop issue that’s preventing me from loading my game. 

As of three days ago, trusty laptop’s DVD drive will not mount/load/launch any discs. I’ve tried my sims disc (yes, I still play with the discs do not dwell on this), a DVD and a CD. Same thing, every time. It goes through all the usual motions as if it’s going to launch, but then it ejects it. 

For quite a while it’s ejected discs autonomously and with some frequency, but popping the disc back in always fixed it and things resumed as normal.

I have not changed any settings or updates or drivers in any way. Everything is the same as when I last launched my game three days ago.

Windows is still recognising the drive:

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My USB ports are working perfectly, too.

I play on a Macbook (though on a Windows 7 partition), and the same thing’s happening on the Mac side too. It definitely seems like a hardware issue.

Please help!

Can anyone offer any solution as to why all of my self-created townie teens in Mayberry are apparently not eligible for college? My game’s only recognising spawned NPCs (and playables, per a test hood) as eligible. I haven’t ever had this issue in other hoods.

The teens I’ve created have been townified via the Sim Blender.

Thanks in advance!

Adding child townies to a custom hood…

Hey all, I was chatting to @holleyberry about this yesterday, and thought I’d throw it out to the wider community to get some advice.

Mayberry’s second generation is about to happen, and I’ve realised that I don’t have ANY child townies (duh). I’d like to add some, but I don’t necessarily want to do it the way the game demands – create them in CAS with the limitations of the relationships. I basically want independent child (and some additional teen) townies. I WANT CUSTOM MARSHA BRUENIGS AND CHLOE GONZAGAS.

Is the easiest/cleanest way to do this to just cut family ties with the Sim Blender/InSim or something? Or create them as adults and age them down in-game? I don’t suppose there’s going to be any workaround to the limitations of CAS? What’s the cleanest way to do it?

I’ve found with my slider teens that creating them as adults and then ageing them down doesn’t make the game ‘recognise’ them as teens (ie they don’t come up in the ‘send sims to college’ pool, but they otherwise interact as teens).

Edit: I know it’s the easiest way, but I don’t want the game to spawn townies, I want them to be custom sims (thanks for reminding me @lostinsims. :D)

Thanks for your help!

Hack help?

Hoping anyone can help. I had an issue at uni where all my graduates would not leave campus. I had to throw a party for each of them so they’d transition into an adult, and then the taxi would not come if they were moving back to the main hood. It was fine if I just had them ‘find own place’, but it would send them to the sim bin in the uni subhood.

I had to summon each of them on to a playable lot in Mayberry proper and then have them ‘find own place’ from there so they’d be in the regular Mayberry sim bin. I’ve moved them all into homes now, and they seem fine.

The batbox was no help, and I wonder if there’s a known mod that conflicts? Have not had this issue before.

Help!

Suddenly, my game won’t launch. It launched perfectly fine the last time I played (3 days ago). I have tried:

  • deleted the .cache files (all four of them)
  • attempted to load with all my downloads extracted
  • cleared my temp files etc
  • launching from the C:/Program Files file, not a shortcut (which I usually do anyway).

I don’t get an error message of any kind, my computer goes through all the motions and it simply “exhales” and then does nothing, where the screen would usually go black for a moment and then the Sims 2 screen would start loading.

Body Shop loads without issue.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Edit: there may have been an aborted load, where the game was using up all the files but wasn’t actually loading, so the computer was shut down. Perhaps there’s just a buggy file sitting somewhere that’s interrupting the load?