SOLVED. Mysterious Hut Lot from Bon Voyage (BV) crashes game during load
J. M. Pescado:
* J. M. Pescado P&L
KnightSkyKyte:
OK, I know how to work around this problem - so it is in effect solved. Just in case anyone else runs into this problem, here's the work-around in sufficient detail to solve the problem:
The problem was CC on the sims I was sending to the Mysterious Hut.
The workaround was this:
* Take out the Downloads folder and the SavedSims folders
* In the game, before sending the sims to the Mysterious Hut, I did two things:
1. Changed the clothes to Maxis clothing (because they were still wearing CC even though I removed the folders named above)
2. Changed the sims appearance to Maxis hairstyles/makeup/accessories etc. (This action changes the face and eyes of the sim so that custom content left over is removed.)
NOTE that if you do not do 1 and 2 above, you will still get the problem, even if you remove the DL and SS folders! (This is where I screwed up.)
The Mysterious Hut then loaded when sending the sims to walk there.
Once I finished with the Mysterious Hut, I returned the sims to Home (temporary home at the hotel) and then saved the game.
Exit game.
Put DL and SS folders back in.
Restart game.
To restore the sims back to their original beautifully decked out custom content forms, I simply:
- changed their clothes
- changed their appearance in the mirror.
Just in case this is important, at no stage did I disable custom content through the Maxis "enable/disable custom content" option during this whole operation.
I know this is cumbersome, and it would be more thorough to remove the CC files causing the problem, but, I really am too fond of all the CC those sims were wearing to remove any of it from the game and said to myself, "stuffit - I'm not planning on visiting the Myserious Hut more than once for each playable sim".
**** Here ends the sermon****
J.M., thankyou for your feedback, patience and helpful suggestions, I appreciate it.
* KSK goes back to lurking and staying out of trouble
J. M. Pescado:
I still don't know why CC would crash the game entirely, unless it's fundamentally corrupt CC that will crash in other things as well, like the old buggy "dress as top" meshes.
KnightSkyKyte:
Sounds quite possible that I might have CC meshes that crash the game to the desktop (obviously, SOMETHING in my CC does it).
There were... 4 custom meshes (all male) on my sims - two hairstyles, one clothing and one accessory. I'll check next time I send them to Twikkii.
It wouldn't really be too much of a pain in the arse to find out which of the cc was causing the problem nowdays (the game loads much faster now - 8 minutes vs. 30 minutes since I now have a computer with 3 GB RAM and a new 3D graphics card with 500 MB memory). When I find it, I'll remember to report back on what the CC was. But, I imagine that it won't be for quite a while though.
J. M. Pescado:
Well, it's pretty easy and fast to isolate it by binary search. Assuming 8 minutes to load your game with a full CC load, you will isolate the crash in O(8) minutes, as everytime you load the game, it would be loading with only half the previous CC load and thus booting in half the time. Don't underestimate the power of the Dark Side. Even if you had 30000 items, you would still find them in only 15 game loads, each with half again the previous load.
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